Directors Quotes

1613 Directors quotes by 1113 unique authors

Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. From Here to Eternity must… — Manny Farber
I don't think it's a director's job to peek behind the curtain too much. — Paul Thomas Anderson
As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate. — Sam Mendes
I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe… — Sam Mendes
A director is a man, therefore he has ideas; he is also an artist, therefore he has imagination. Whether they are good or bad, it… — Michelangelo Antonioni
I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules. — Michelangelo Antonioni
I guess I like a lot of directors. Or at least I try to. — Jacques Rivette
Guy Ritchie is the worst screenwriter in the world, but, to be fair, he is not the worst director. He is only the worst director… — Mick LaSalle
I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision… — Nick Cave
I always wanted to create a site that was sports and pop culture. '30 for 30 had a big impact because I loved how that… — Bill Simmons
As he demonstrated with 'Juno' and 'Up in the Air,' Reitman has an uncanny knack among contemporary directors for tapping into the zeitgeist in dramatically… — Lou Lumenick
I'm still confounded by how few female directors there are. I don't get it. — Stacey Snider
I saw 'Alien' when I was 8 years old. To me, it was like a combination of Jaws and Star Wars, and that's the movie… — Eli Roth
If I don't come home covered head to toe in fake blood then I haven't done my job as a horror director. — Eli Roth
My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something you can phone in. — Gore Verbinski
You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all the parts, but as a… — Jo Nesbo
So you know when you were work on Man of Steel, in 10 years somebody is going to do the music for Man of Steel,… — Zack Snyder
What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own… — Katherine Dunn
On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and… — Andrzej Wajda
Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all. — Todd Solondz
As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers. — Stephen Frears
I'll be in #‎ Jharkhand along with Kaustav Narayan Niyogi, who is directing the film and my director of photography for location hunting. I want… — Pooja Bhatt
There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black writer's… — Gabrielle
I should mention that I am a member of the board of directors of Dimensional Fund Advisors. — Merton Miller
The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director. — Phil Ramone

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