Director Quotes

1304 Director quotes by 970 unique authors

Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a… — Michael Tilson Thomas
The writer must be a participant in the scene... like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work, and somehow… — Hunter S. Thompson
My kind of director is an actor-director who writes. — Orson Welles
Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a… — Orson Welles
I got an internship with the casting director of The Girl Next Door. I would hold the clipboard and help them in their casting sessions… — Olivia Wilde
People have nervous tics they don't know about, and I would advise asking around. Ask the casting director, 'Is there something I'm doing?' I would… — Olivia Wilde
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard. — Billy Wilder
The best director is the one you don't see. — Billy Wilder
I rode it once, which was up the driveway in the opening credits of the show. I didn't know how to stop it. I actually… — Henry Winkler
There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over.… — Dick Wolf
I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan. — Donnie Yen
As an action director, I always try to bring something fresh and new. — Donnie Yen
From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker. — Donnie Yen
I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story. — Donnie Yen
In Hong Kong, particularly, we craft this art for decades. The action choreographer actually is the action director. He takes over and he choreographs with… — Donnie Yen
When any young director gets hired by a studio to do a $125 million film based on a preexisting piece of intellectual property, they're climbing… — Neill Blomkamp
From my studies of genetics and neuroscience I have come to believe that people fall into four broad personality types - each influenced by a… — Helen Fisher
In a rehearsal room, your real resource as an actor aren't the things around you; your resources are your imagination and your director and the… — Stephen Lang
A script is only as good as the director who's making it. — Helen McCrory
I used to work for an NGO called Transitions Online, and I was their Director of New Media. I was a very idealistic fellow who… — Evgeny Morozov
The director of the FBI has been visiting Silicon Valley companies asking them to build back doors so that it can spy on what is… — Evgeny Morozov
I went to Cal Arts and AFI, and I worked on 'Bonfire Of The Vanities.' I got this grant from the Academy to be Brian… — Douglas Rushkoff
Appearing in 'Legally Blonde' has helped me find my inner girl, although at the beginning the director was constantly telling me off for sitting like… — Sheridan Smith
The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will… — Victor Hugo
When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do… — James Dean

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