Curtain Quote by Nigel Hawthorne

Over the years with movies, I've given directors notes.

— Harvey Weinstein

The best compliment for a director is that an audience hates their films.

— Udo Kier

I don't like directors that just say, Stand there and now do this.

— Joe Pantoliano

When you're the director and the writer, you never have to remember your lines, and there's no one to call you on it. On…

— Zach Braff

I feel like the great filmmakers who have a true voice, yeah they take the notes, they understand the notes, but it's really about…

— Louis Leterrier

It's interesting for me to do the commentary with the actors because, as a director, you're so in your own world that you see…

— Catherine Hardwicke

All of these great directors I've worked with, they've all come to me. I never go after it.

— Udo Kier

I'm glad that so many directors are keen to work with me.

— Nani

When people approach me about my films it is usually to tell me how much they hate them.

— Michael Winterbottom

A very quick way to annoy me as an actor is a director trying to tell me what my character's thinking.

— Lily Gladstone

I realized why directors are such horrible people - in a way - because you want things to be right, and people will just…

— George Lucas

Considering that I'm British and I talk the way I do, I love it when a director takes a chance on me.

— David Oyelowo