Directors Quotes
1613 Directors quotes by 1113 unique authors
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My dad is a director/producer and my mom is a dancer; she performed with Alvin Ailey, but I didn't even think about becoming an actress.
— Sanaa Lathan
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Every actress has a line she'll draw, where she'll say, 'This I will do and this I won't.' For me, everything has to be important…
— Sheryl Lee
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Well, it gives me the opportunity to make the movies that I want to do, because L'Oreal pays me very well. Also it means that…
— Virginie Ledoyen
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I think, as written, 'Assassins' simply acknowledges the very human need to be acknowledged. As director, I've got to put aside any particular biases or…
— Joe Mantello
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I understood that I was not the best director in the world nor the worst director in the world. I realized that there is a…
— Joe Mantello
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Ultimately, making movies, if you don't have a big star, it's hard to do. Or if it's not a star director.
— Chris Messina
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My memorization skills aren't that great so I need help in that area. As far as everything else, I listen to the director. I'm someone…
— Robert Morse
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I love working fast. I don't relish the director who wants to do 25 to 30 takes, or the actors who insist on doing 25…
— Alfred Molina
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That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show,…
— Barry McGuire
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Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process.
— Catherine McCormack
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I happen to have worked with male directors who don't understand women at all. Not at all. I'm flabbergasted by their ignorance.
— Catherine McCormack
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The great thing about having spent all this time on film sets is that I've been able to watch directors and how they work. I…
— Catherine McCormack
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Frank Miller is more of a visionary than any director I've ever worked with, and he achieves that vision better than anyone I've ever worked…
— Gabriel Macht
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Originally a record producer more or less hired a bunch of professionals to participate in a recording session, the performers and the technicians, and a…
— Tony Visconti
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I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that…
— Joe Wright
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I think Paul Weitz is a really amazing director, obviously with tons of acclaim and stuff, but I still think he is underrated. And I…
— Nat Wolff
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But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote…
— Ray Walston
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I have worked with some very great directors.
— Ray Walston
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I love it when the director says, 'Rebel, just do whatever you want.' I'm, like, 'Yes!
— Rebel Wilson
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I think the director is becoming more important. To work under rushed conditions, you need to have an extremely professional director. If the director's good…
— Glenn Ford
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What I promise to my actors, and to my director, is to give them the salary and everything they need.
— Jean-Claude Van Damme
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In cinema, the leading player is the director.
— Ben Kingsley
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We must raise the salaries of our operators or they will all be taken from us, that is, all that are good for anything. You…
— Samuel Morse
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I grew up the son of a director and grew up on sets myself, so I was the kid getting dragged around from this set…
— Dean Cain
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When I was leader of the GLC, by the time I had been in control for three years, the difference in pay between the cleaner…
— Ken Livingstone
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