Directors Quotes
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When you work with someone you don't quite know, you have to figure the director out and you can come up with ideas that are counter-productive.
— Stellan Skarsgard
I have worked with some very great directors.
— Ray Walston
I believe, as a producer/director, your duty is to create a beautiful horror film that really resonates.
— Guillermo Del Toro
That is a big turn-on for me, a director who knows what he's doing and what he wants, and knows when he's gotten what he wants.
— Morgan Freeman
So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.
— Vincent D'Onofrio
I think the perspective that small-town directors bring to films is very different.
— Anurag Kashyap
(When asked what a director does) I help.
— Krzysztof Kieslowski
As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
— Karine Vanasse
There are casting directors with lots of imagination, but also some with not as much imagination.
— Max Von Sydow
David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation.
— J. Hoberman
Any director will tell you, no matter how big his budget, that it's always the budget and the day count.
— Michael Sucsy
He sort of gets comic moments. Not a lot of directors do.
— Kevin McDonald
I think most directors subscribe to the principle that less is more, and the best direction is the most concise direction.
— Joshua Marston
I've never directed anything before 'Mad Men,' so I don't feel I have any advice for the other directors.
— John Slattery
The idea of Plato that philosophers must be the rulers and directors of society is practiced in India.
— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
The question I always ask is: 'Where are all the women directors in America?' You know, where's the female Martin Scorsese, the female David Lynch?
— Gillian Armstrong
Silo builds the wall in people's minds and creates the barrier in organizations' "hearts.
— Pearl Zhu
I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
— Bette Davis
To the audience it doesn't really matter how much the director struggled with an actor. It's the result that counts.
— Roman Polanski
Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
— Malcolm McDowell
What I'm looking for is the variety of choices and the opportunity to work with great directors - that's what I'm looking for.
— Ludivine Sagnier
I like working with different directors; it keeps you on your toes.
— Chaske Spencer
Everything is the director's fault - you can quote me on that. There are no excuses.
— Steven Soderbergh
I am lucky, that is all. Lucky because there are a lot of people - producers, directors, people who buy tickets - who put confidence in me.
— Antonio Banderas
The great directors managed to dissolve and disappear into the work. They make other people look good.
— Alexander Mackendrick
I was rejected by casting directors during the day. I attended class in the evening, then rode 90 miles on the train home.
— Norman Fell
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 than someone else.
— Billy Bob Thornton
As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does.
— Rob Zombie
Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.
— Elia Kazan
Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him.
— Leon Askin
I'm an unusual director in that my cut is usually shorter then the final released film. I like short films.
— Barry Sonnenfeld
Every film had its own grammar. And it's your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a story.
— Darren Aronofsky
Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often.
— Catherine Deneuve
On a movie set that works, you have your father figure, the director, you have your siblings, your other actors.
— Richard Gere
With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.
— Ken Adam
Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal.
— Charles Bronson
Generally my focus has been on people who make things, whether it's writers or directors or painters or musicians.
— 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 it actually happened.
— Jensen Ackles
I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.
— Carroll O'Connor
Every director is different. And all the movies are very different, and the characters are very different.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Directors never give you anything.
— Claudia Christian
I guess I like a lot of directors. Or at least I try to.
— Jacques Rivette
Each one of my films is personal; each one of my films is emotionally autobiographical. And I like directors who do that.
— Jason Reitman
I've worked with so few female directors.
— Andrea Riseborough
Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.
— Richard Wagner
I've worked with a lot of directors who really don't have a sense of what the hell they want.
— Adrienne Shelly
I have so much respect for television actors and directors. We're on set doing 16-hour days, and that's just what we do.
— Michelle Borth
I'm always 100% committed to a character, a story and a director, and with Michael Mann it was 1,000%. I don't know how to explain this ...
— Marion Cotillard
People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film.
— Julianne Moore
Is it 'left' to insist that presidents and CIA directors adhere to the law? I don't think so. I think it's American.
— Anthony Lewis
As a film director I like to have the actors create their own close-ups. It's an older style of filmmaking.
— Stanley Tucci
I'm like a movie director, so wherever I feel that I need to go over this type of beat, that's what I'm going to do, that's where I'm going to go.
— Ghostface Killah
There are many amazing female directors that made work in more skewed times, so we should be thankful for the boundaries they pushed through.
— Jillian Mayer
Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.
— Alan Parker
So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies.
— John Frankenheimer
I like the conscious manipulation that a great director can have. When you're both complicit in the manipulation of an emotion.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
There's a bunch of directors that I really admire, and Australian ones as well. It would be nice to do a film at home.
— Mia Wasikowska
You mustn't look at a film with only one point of view.
— Jafar Panahi
David Ayer is one of the best directors I've ever worked with. He's a true man's man.
— Scott Eastwood
To anyone in the position to hire women directors: Make the commitment.
— Lesli Linka Glatter
The core of a director is the person's tastes in what elements go together and how they go together. It's a puzzle.
— Andre Ovredal
I have a real thing for Mexican directors. And I love Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.
— Emma Watson
There are times when you work with directors on set, and things are a bit rudderless, and those can be good directors.
— Grant Heslov
It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.
— Alan Cumming
As an actor and director, you have to take risks, even though I don't like saying that word. You can make a mistake.
— Jean Dujardin
So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.
— Jodie Foster
In a collaborative environment directors hire actors because they want their input, not just their bodies.
— Kelly Lynch
Some directors have just one way of working; you either have to adhere to it or you don't.
— Bradley Cooper
At times as an actor, it's often times unclear as to what the directors envision for a project.
— Carmen Ejogo
Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach.
— Donald Pleasence
Some directors were brilliant in the silent era but never felt at home in sound. It's like a sculptor being forced to take up painting.
— Kevin Brownlow
Even a modicum of celebrity is hard to deal with. You see it with actors and directors all the time.
— Paul Haggis
Most of the great directors I've worked with - De Palma, Spike Lee - like rehearsals.
— John Leguizamo
A CEO is a board of directors personified.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
