Directors Quotes

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In the movies, you want a good story and characters that are honest, but you are also looking for a good director who can lead… — Ashton Kutcher
A lot of these people, these program directors, just like anybody else in the world, even though they're supposed to be leaders in the world,… — Talib Kweli
The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with… — Hedy Lamarr
It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies. — Jon Landau
Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you're working with… — Jessica Lange
The worst is when I talk myself into something. Sometimes you take things because you want to work with a certain actor, or you want… — Jessica Lange
I was not born a size 2. I'm not skinny, period. I'm not willing to sleep with the director or step on somebody else's neck… — Queen Latifah
I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have,… — Queen Latifah
Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be. — Hugh Laurie
For us as writers, it's really important to have songs we believe in - even before sometimes we shoot a scene. If we have a… — Denis Leary
Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing. — Ang Lee
All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love. — Spike Lee
Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the… — Spike Lee
I didn't dream about being a director. I didn't know I wanted to do something with film until the summer between my sophomore and junior… — Spike Lee
How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie. — Daniel Day-Lewis
I'm not a real film buff. Unfortunately, I don't have time. I just don't go. And I become very nervous when I go to a… — David Lynch
One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year… — Yo-Yo Ma
Of course I'm schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart. — Shirley MacLaine
You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you more miserable and… — Shirley MacLaine
'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also… — Steve Martin
Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so… — John Malkovich
With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the special effects guy… — George R. R. Martin
When I was a crusade director in British Columbia, all of our meetings were at 9:03. Somebody said 'That's ridiculous. Why did you do that?'… — Josh McDowell
So, we come out to Los Angeles. And we met with every network. We met with show runners, directors, writers, everything. And what we had… — Reba McEntire
To me it's like, every time I'm a director, like today, you're the captain of the ship, so you better dress like it. You're the… — Mike Mills

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