Directors Quotes

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When you're a director, for two years or at least a year and a half, that's what your life is. So if you're gonna do… — Billy Bob Thornton
I'm not really a full-time director, I just like to direct the things that I write because I think I'm going to know it better… — Billy Bob Thornton
I've watched other directors as an actor and I picked up little things here and there about cameras, [but] I wouldn't consider myself the guy… — Billy Bob Thornton
I used to put that I studied with Stella Adler on my resume. I never met Stella Adler. But if you told a casting director… — Billy Bob Thornton
All the actors I've worked with as a director over the years I really love and I thought they were all right for the part. — Billy Bob Thornton
I did some films in college, and I remember working with this director that wanted to shock me so that I'd give him an expression… — John Kapelos
I mean the most important thing you can have as an actor, writer, director, or whatever you are, poet or whatever it is, is life… — Billy Bob Thornton
I think doing something creative is the most important thing to me, and I think it's probably just good for the soul for anyone, whatever… — Ricky Gervais
I wanted to work on a cable show and with a writer/director because that's a much more fulfilling and freeing experience, as an actor. — Tom Ellis
I love working with the best directors in the world and great material. If I get an opportunity to do that, I'm going to do… — Daryl Hannah
As an actor, it's always important to understand what the director is after. That, to me, is my job. When I'm acting, I like to… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
He [Mark Webb] is very savvy, technically, he's shot so many videos, he knows how to get what he wants. The surprise, of course, is… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Every director is different. And all the movies are very different, and the characters are very different. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I think the reason I was able to get the jobs I did is because I worked for some very strong, self-possessed filmmakers who wouldn't… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I love her [Kimberly Peirce]. Incredibly intense is a good way of describing her. Brutally honest. Really sharp. She's a director for actors. That's what… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I know what its like to direct. You become a more considerate actor. After you have directed, you understand what is going on. You can't… — Dolph Lundgren
You realize as a director that when you are cutting a film, you want to have alternatives. You need color and choices. You don't want… — Dolph Lundgren
By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director. — Jodie Foster
Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility. — Jodie Foster
As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of people's lives and… — Jodie Foster
As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I can't be that… — Jodie Foster
I view filmmaking as a director's medium. — James Franco
But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one of my great heroes. One of… — Stephen Fry
I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul. — Ava Gardner
TV, it's a director's medium, and they wanna make it look interesting. To be rehearsing mostly for the sake of where you're standing so they… — Janeane Garofalo

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