Director Quotes

1304 Director quotes by 970 unique authors

A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a director an army. — Orson Welles
I see myself much more as a writer/director or at least an aspiring writer/director - not necessarily in film. — Ricky Gervais
I like the old school heavy metal bands like AC/DC and Aeromith. I like that type of music. As the director, I tried to influence… — Dolph Lundgren
Stallone is a pretty tough director. You don't mess with him. — Dolph Lundgren
The hardest thing for everyone, for the writer, for the director and certainly for the actors, is not to panic when they're doing a certain… — Ivan Reitman
Every time you say yes to a film there's a certain percentage of your yes that has to do with the director, a certain percentage… — Guy Pearce
You never really know what the director has got in his mind as far as the scene visually and art direction wise. — Guy Pearce
It's a collaborative art form where we can both learn something from the other. That's what you want from the relationship with a director. — Cam Gigandet
I think a good director can embrace any genre and it's the kind of thing where you always want to do something different. You always… — David Ayer
I didn't have the problem of finding myself at 45 on the wrong course - I always wanted to be a film director. — Elia Kazan
I'm like a movie director, so wherever I feel that I need to go over this type of beat, that's what I'm going to do,… — Ghostface Killah
I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies. — Walter Hill
As a director, it's my job to provoke, and when people decided 'The Room' be called a phenomenon, or whatever you call it, it's fine… — Tommy Wiseau
As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic. — Tommy Wiseau
Not everyone is sold on crisis consultants. Linda Gray, assistant vice president and director of news and information at the University of Central Florida in… — Linda Gray
A TREAT. FASCINATING. Director Lipes is a classic cinéma vérité practitioner in the mold of Albert Maysles and Frederick Wiseman. — Kenneth Turan
For me, a director is a director immaterial of the gender. At the end of the day, the audience is only interested in watching a… — Boman Irani
In film producing, there is an inherent tension between the director, the money and the producer, and that's what keeps it flowing and honest and… — Christine Vachon
The director works as an interpretive artist, but he's still an artist, so you also have to give him room to create and to put… — August Wilson
I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director… — Alan Alda
As an actor, you tell part of a story. As a writer, you get more of telling that story. But as a director, they're seeing… — Jonah Hill
I'd love to be a huge television director. I definitely want to do that. I could imagine me going more and more into that, as… — Shiri Appleby
When you're a director, for two years or at least a year and a half, that's what your life is. So if you're gonna do… — Billy Bob Thornton
I'm not really a full-time director, I just like to direct the things that I write because I think I'm going to know it better… — Billy Bob Thornton
I used to put that I studied with Stella Adler on my resume. I never met Stella Adler. But if you told a casting director… — Billy Bob Thornton

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