Directors Quote by William Peter Blatty

People have asked me throughout the years which directors have influenced me. I don't know their names, because I was mostly influenced when I'd…

— Robert Altman

I know there were things emanating from me. I was not aware of what attracted all these directors to me.

— Jeanne Moreau

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to…

— Anthony Minghella

I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.

— Ted Rall

I didn't just see myself as a film director here [in Life And Nothing More], but also as an observer of people who had…

— Abbas Kiarostami

Sometimes the directors were afraid of what they brought out of me.

— Jeanne Moreau

Whatever I was able to do with those experiences certainly contribute to whatever I'm able to do as a director. The corruption in that…

— Sean Penn

I won't deny that when you look at a director's work, you are aware of the different works that they have done. For me,…

— Kirti Kulhari

'Control' had to do with my own life a lot, and that's why that seemed to be a film I could be the director…

— Anton Corbijn

As an actor, I look at scenes much differently than I would look at them as a director, and I never realized that until…

— Jensen Ackles

I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.

— Ralph Lauren

When you're a director you always feel weird with another director watching over your shoulder.

— Fede Alvarez