Director Quotes

1304 Director quotes by 970 unique authors

I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach. — Alfred Hitchcock
Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun… — Philip Seymour Hoffman
I always say that I'm not the director, I'm part of the team. — Marc Jacobs
As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what… — Gary Johnson
There's people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you're… — Angelina Jolie
No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others. — Tommy Lee Jones
A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people. — Elia Kazan
A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do. — Elia Kazan
Cinema is a director's medium, so you're saying, 'What do you want?' Being an actor is about adapting - physically and emotionally. If that means… — Nicole Kidman
I wouldn't say I'm personally trying to transition from comedy into drama. I don't look at things like, 'Oh, I need to do a drama… — Ashton Kutcher
In the movies, you want a good story and characters that are honest, but you are also looking for a good director who can lead… — Ashton Kutcher
The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with… — Hedy Lamarr
It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies. — Jon Landau
Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you're working with… — Jessica Lange
The worst is when I talk myself into something. Sometimes you take things because you want to work with a certain actor, or you want… — Jessica Lange
I was not born a size 2. I'm not skinny, period. I'm not willing to sleep with the director or step on somebody else's neck… — Queen Latifah
I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have,… — Queen Latifah
For us as writers, it's really important to have songs we believe in - even before sometimes we shoot a scene. If we have a… — Denis Leary
Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing. — Ang Lee
Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the… — Spike Lee
I didn't dream about being a director. I didn't know I wanted to do something with film until the summer between my sophomore and junior… — Spike Lee
How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie. — Daniel Day-Lewis
I'm not a real film buff. Unfortunately, I don't have time. I just don't go. And I become very nervous when I go to a… — David Lynch
Of course I'm schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart. — Shirley MacLaine
You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you more miserable and… — Shirley MacLaine

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