Director Quotes

1304 Director quotes by 970 unique authors

My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send… — Leon Jouhaux
I'm not an easygoing guy as a director. — Ted Kotcheff
When I was to come to Washington the first time as Music Director of the Boston Symphony, Mrs. Johnson phoned us to find out if… — Erich Leinsdorf
Some of the screen's best moments were realized because a director went against all reason, all logic. No matter how incredible a story seems, it… — Rouben Mamoulian
I don't think about the gender thing very much. But when I speak at schools, I've had female students say to me afterwards, "I never… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson
I hooked up with director Jacques Audiard for this film called 'Rust & Bone' with Marion Cotillard. I loved that experience so much I'm truly… — Matthias Schoenaerts
There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen. — Baz Luhrmann
A connoisseur of gastronomy was congratulated on his appointment as a director of indirect contributions at Periguex: and, above all, in the pleasure there would… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
It was not my class of people. There was not a producer, a press agent, a director, an actor. — Zsa Zsa Gabor
You can only have one voice on set, and that has to be the director. — J. Michael Straczynski
It's a lucky circumstance when you get to usher in new work, because you are able to ask the playwright and the director (who in… — Gideon Glick
When you're a lead role, I'm learning that you set a tone for the movie in a way, like a director does, or like other… — Kit Harington
I mean, it feels like a homecoming in a really wonderfully comfortable place to be - the same director, the same musical director, my same… — Kelli O'Hara
As a director, I like trying to unlock the subtext of the scene and try to put the camera in a place that helps that. — David Brooks
I was staying on [writer/director/actor] Eric Schaeffer's couch in New York, and he said, "I've got this movie [If Lucy Fell]. Can you do five… — Ben Stiller
That is a big turn-on for me, a director who knows what he's doing and what he wants, and knows when he's gotten what he… — Morgan Freeman
When we choose only love as the director of our mind we can experience the power and miracle of love. — Gerald Jampolsky
If the director wishes to print it, then you have a series of choices, maybe millions of choices within that minute-and-a-half, or 80 seconds, or… — Ben Kingsley
Being a film director involves, above all, a lot of hard work and resolve and determination. The glamour doesn't come until the premiere and the… — D W Griffith
It all depends on the directors. Working closely with a director is the main job of a film composer. Interpreting what he perceives as a… — Danny Elfman
There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather… — Arthur Middleton
Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so… — Campbell Scott
The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the… — Orson Welles
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.... — Orson Welles
The ideal set-up would be the story man, the director, and the layout man, as well as musician, operating as a sort of story unit.… — Walt Disney

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