Directors Quotes
1613 Directors quotes by 1113 unique authors
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I don't like actors who try to talk directors into making their part bigger and that's really lame.
— Franka Potente
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I don't really care where I work, actually, because you know making a movie is like living in movie world. There's such a secluded world,…
— Franka Potente
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There are directors who, their direction is high, but then when you challenge it, it crumbles. They can't back up what they're asking.
— Michael Pitt
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When actors give their input, it can be very ego-driven, and directors are scared of that.
— Michael Pitt
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There are two kinds of directors: There's the kind where two plus two equals four, and you have to help them figure it out. And…
— Michael Pitt
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The directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity of the medium and are interested…
— Oliver Platt
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I was a bartender in New York and I overheard this girl saying she made $3000 doing a commercial. A kid at work told me,…
— Pauley Perrette
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George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go.
— Richard Perle
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I was thrown in the deep end at 18 when I got cast in a movie that I didn't audition for. The director just sort…
— Teresa Palmer
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Directors tend to be more underrated than overrated because it's a quiet job and people don't really understand it.
— Todd Phillips
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I take it very seriously, music. I think it's one of the tools that a director has with which to kind of paint. The right…
— Todd Phillips
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I find that all great directors, and I would include Ben Affleck and Clint Eastwood in that, they have great confidence. And with great confidence…
— Amy Ryan
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I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.
— Alfonso Ribeiro
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I love movie directors. I don't care who it is.
— Brett Ratner
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Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy,…
— Burton Richter
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While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best…
— Burton Richter
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I feel like a good director provokes you to ask questions about your character, but doesn't answer them for you.
— Crystal Reed
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I'm always looking for a way to surprise audiences. That's, I feel, my job as a director. I felt that Amy Adams playing a tough…
— David O. Russell
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I think Chris Weitz is an amazing director, and his sensibility - I wouldn't even know how to articulate it - it's just, he's a…
— Elizabeth Reaser
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I think part of the fun of being an actor is getting to work with different directors and seeing their take on it, what they're…
— Elizabeth Reaser
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If I had to choose criteria, for me, it's about first the director. I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually…
— Giovanni Ribisi
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My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and shoot it in…
— Jay Roach
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Our intelligence community needs better coordination of operations and exchange of information, and that's why we need an overall director of national intelligence and a…
— Jim Ramstad
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Movie making is really, it's a director's medium, it's not even so much an actor's medium.
— Rebecca Romijn
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The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.
— Stephen Rea
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