100+ Directors Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: "Aaron Johnson Talks SAVAGES and KICK-ASS 2; Says Filming Begins This Fall and It'll Be Rated R". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 5, 2012.

topic: Directors, Needs, Elements

All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.

- Adam McKay

source: "Will Ferrell, Adam McKay Celebrate 'The Other Guys'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross., www.npr.org. August 5, 2010.

topic: Directors, Tone

David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.

- Adam McKay

topic: Directors, My Favorite, Filmmaker

For me, there was never an end game for becoming a director.

- Adam Shankman

topic: Games, Directors, Becoming

I'm a student. I want to do better, and I want directors who can find the actress in me and be my teachers. I'm interested in the whole process of editing, post-production and direction.

- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

topic: Teacher, Editing, Directors, Post Production

We make a contract within ourselves as actors or directors or writers about how much of ourselves we let into projects. You can actually figure out before you work on something how much blood you will have to let emotionally.

- Ajay Naidu

topic: Blood, Directors, Actors

I've always loved music videos - I used to make my own for bands like Pearl Jam. My favorite directors are Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, and Patrick Daughters.

- Akiva Schaffer

source: "Viral Vidiots". www.wired.com. July 1, 2006.

topic: Daughter, Mother, Directors, Pearl Jam

I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.

- Alan Alda

topic: Advice, Directors, Finals, Words Of Advice, Final Words

Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.

- Alan Alda

topic: Directors, Notches, Top Notch

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

- Alan Cumming

topic: Directors, Film, Film Directors

Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.

- Alan Cumming

source: Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. December 7, 2010.

topic: Stupid, Directors, Actors

A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.

- Alan Parker

source: "Alan Parker: 'I like the craziness of the film set'" by Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2013.

topic: Editing, Solitude, Directors

Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work.

- Alan Parker

topic: Directors, Different, Filmmaker

Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.

- Alan Parker

source: Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2000.

topic: People, Directors, Want

One of the most, in a weird way, encouraging things a director can say to an actor - I know this as an actor - is when you ask them a question, they say, I don't know - 'cause it means there's some space there for you to find out. And it means that there's going to be a process.

- Alan Rickman

topic: Mean, Space, Directors

The difference between being an actor and a director is simple. The director has to hide his panic; the actor doesn't.

- Alan Rickman

topic: Simple, Differences, Directors

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

- Alan Rickman

topic: Imagination, Directors

The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'

- Alan Rickman

topic: Directors, Guts

I never wanted to be a director.

- Albert Brooks

topic: Directors, Wanted

You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.

- Albert Brooks

topic: Writing, Directors, Comedy, Writing Comedy

'Drive' came to me because the casting director knew my manager and called and said, 'You've always talked to me about Albert wanting to play the heavy. I think he should read this.' My ears just perked up.

- Albert Brooks

source: "Albert Brooks Talks DRIVE, TAXI DRIVER, Improvising, Future Projects, Where’s the DEFENDING YOUR LIFE Blu-ray & Turning Down Roles". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. October 31, 2011.

topic: Thinking, Play, Directors

I'm an actor because I love movies, and always have loved movies. I'm a film buff. So, getting to work with those kinds of directors and getting to tell those stories is what I want to do.

- Alden Ehrenreich

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Movie Love, Directors, Stories

Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

topic: Eye, Directors, Film, Testicles

Your crew becomes your family and you trust the director and the other actors on the set, and it's a very safe place.

- Aleksa Palladino

source: "Exitmusic’s Passage Is No Secret". Interview with Amanda Duberman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2012.

topic: Directors, Actors, Safe

I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.

- Alex Cox

source: Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January 2003.

topic: Directors, Actors

I always said to the directors that the minute a player becomes more powerful than the manager of Manchester United, it's not Manchester United. You have lost control of the whole club. So I always made sure that I was in control. They always knew who the manager was.

- Alex Ferguson

source: Interview with Charlie Rose, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. March 10, 2013.

topic: Powerful, Player, Directors, Manchester

The one thing about program television that's absolutely incompatible with any concept of art is that all decisions have to be made by program directors, whereas art is autonomous. It may be dependent, but it knows no superiors.

- Alexander Kluge

topic: Art, Decision, Directors, Autonomous

The kindest thing a director can do is look with open eyes at everything.

- Alexander Payne

source: "Alexander Payne: 'Don't remove the lint'". Interview With Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2012.

topic: Eye, Directors, Looks, Open Eyes

Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to.

- Alexis Bledel

source: Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. October 8, 2002.

topic: Stress, People, Directors

I think with the smaller-scale projects, the burden for success falls more squarely on the shoulders of the actors and the director and the script.

- Alexis Denisof

source: "Angel's Alexis Denisof goes post-apocalyptic in a new web series". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. August 7, 2012.

topic: Fall, Thinking, Directors

I produce the way I would love to be produced: In ways to create the best conditions to make your movie, but also to create a space in which the director calls the shots.

- Alfonso Cuaron

source: The AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

topic: Space, Directors, Way

As a director who loves the camera you learn a lot.

- Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

source: Source: blogs.indiewire.com

topic: Cameras, Directors

I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.

- Alfonso Ribeiro

topic: Creative, Directors, Paper, Words On Paper, Visualizing

The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.

- Alfred Hitchcock

source: Quoted in Francois Truffaut Hitchcock (1968).

topic: Successful, Directors, Villain, Film Directors, Directing Film

I love working fast. I don't relish the director who wants to do 25 to 30 takes, or the actors who insist on doing 25 or 30 takes.

- Alfred Molina

topic: Directors, Actors, Want

My agent in Sweden used to send off interview tapes but I decided to take it upon myself and come to London to visit casting directors which is when things first started taking off for me. I love Sweden but the industry out here is quite small so when I was given the chance to go internationally I took it.

- Alicia Vikander

topic: Love, Age, Directors, Casting Directors

Nancy has her vision and she's a formidable force to be reckoned with, and that's similar to most of the male directors I've worked with. The only difference is probably inbetween scenes, gossiping with Diane Keaton, Frances McDormand and Nancy Meyers about who's had Botox and who hasn't.

- Amanda Peet

topic: Differences, Vision, Directors

Producers generally don't like me; directors do, generally. Convincing the producers is hard. They can't see the commercial value behind such a face, nor would they get a commercial value, necessarily - and I don't mean that in a good way or a bad way.

- Amanda Plummer

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Mean, Directors, Way, Don't Like Me

There are definitely reasons to do certain things, but I like to stick to good director, good actor, good script.

- Amanda Seyfried

topic: Directors, Actors, Scripts, Good Directors

I find that all great directors, and I would include Ben Affleck and Clint Eastwood in that, they have great confidence. And with great confidence comes great freedom for the actor.

- Amy Ryan

source: "Q&A – Amy Ryan on What Affleck, Eastwood, and the Green Zone Director Have in Common". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. March 2010.

topic: Actors, Directors, Great Confidence, Great Freedom

I want to take roles that challenge me and I want to like the script and obviously feel connected with the director because the director to me is so important.

- Amy Smart

source: "IGN For Men Interview: Amy Smart". Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. August 26, 2001.

topic: Challenges, Important, Directors

The red directors were one of the main political forces. Another force was the former Soviet ministers who lost everything because of the transformation of the Soviet Union to Russia.

- Anatoly Chubais

topic: Russia, Political, Directors

I'm communicating with the directors of the Soviet companies, and I see that it is wrong, but when I go to the official discussions, they discuss we should change the color of the walls.

- Anatoly Chubais

topic: Wall, Color, Directors

You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer.

- Andre Balazs

topic: Stars, Directors, Stories

I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.

- Andrea Arnold

topic: Directors, Want, Kind

When I do any stand-up, you're the writer, director, and producer. You're alone.

- Andrew Dice Clay

topic: Directors, Producers

When I on set as a director I crazy. My temper is not that good.

- Andrew Lau

source: "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. May 29, 2007.

topic: Crazy, Directors, Temper

I've always said to people that auteurism is nice, but it's hypothetical, and gradually you learn how much or how little influence different directors had.

- Andrew Sarris

source: "Hail the Conquering Hero: Andrew Sarris" by Kent Jones, www.filmcomment.com. May/June 2005.

topic: Nice, People, Directors, Hypothetical

On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre.

- Andrzej Wajda

source: "'Why Not Have Our Own World?' Interview with Andrzej Wajda". Interview with Renata Murawska, sensesofcinema.com. July 2005.

topic: Hands, Theatre, Directors, Theatre Directors

But that's not what an actor does. An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you don't have time to hand-draw or animate with a computer.

- Andy Serkis

topic: Hands, Directors, Doe

Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too.

- Andy Warhol

topic: Art, Jobs, Directors

Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.

- Ang Lee

topic: Writing, Directors, Kind

Clint Eastwood is an extraordinary director because he knows the value of a buck. He knows where it will show on the screen.

- Angela Lansbury

topic: Directors, Bucks, Shows

As an artist, program directors always want to put you in a little box.

- Angie Stone

topic: Artist, Directors, Want

You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern.

- Ann Macbeth

topic: Directors, World, Patterns

If I feel the part is right, and I know that the producers and the director want me, I'd go for broke. Always.

- Anne Archer

topic: Directors, Want, Broke

Obviously in Art of Noise, I'm just part of the group, and when I do film scores, it's always in collaboration with the director and other people involved.

- Anne Dudley

topic: Art, People, Directors, Film Scores

You have to get it in your brain that you don't belong to yourself as an actor, but that you belong to the director who creates the character.

- Anne Parillaud

topic: Character, Brain, Directors

In theatre, there's the director, the writer, and below them the actor. In film, it's the actors who are most important. That goes against the grain for me.

- Anne-Marie Duff

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Important, Theatre, Directors

As an actor, you want a director who makes you feel comfortable in a place that you can really create and try a lot of different things.

- Ansel Elgort

topic: Trying, Directors, Different

I can't stand directors who try to micro-manage everything. When it happens these days I just walk off set, saying if they don't like the way I'm doing it they can get someone else.

- Anthony Hopkins

topic: Trying, Directors, Way

Obviously with the onset of cable and satellite, there are more opportunities for programming and original programming, so it creates more opportunities for actors and producers and directors and everything.

- Anthony Michael Hall

topic: Opportunity, Directors, Actors, Satellites

I think my favorite, and Coppola and that whole thing. East coast Italian directors I guess.

- Anthony Michael Hall

topic: Italian, Thinking, Directors, East Coast

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

- Anthony Minghella

topic: Writing, Directors, Able

Being a writer-director can sometimes make you incredibly blinkered.

- Anthony Minghella

topic: Directors, Sometimes

I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.

- Antoine Fuqua

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Directors, Cinema

It is very difficult to follow your own method all the time because you may crash against some directors who want from you something different. Trying to understand the material, who you're working with, and how can you fit in there. That is my approach.

- Antonio Banderas

topic: Trying, Directors, Different

I did my first movie, 'The Mambo Kings,' in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an interpreter actually just to understand directions from my director.

- Antonio Banderas

topic: Kings, America, Directors

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

topic: People, Directors, Lucky

I always felt that the telefilm directors made wonderful films, which are even better than the big screen movies, but never got enough opportunities to showcase their talents on the big screens.

- Arin Paul

source: Interview with Shrabanti Basu, calcuttatube.com. February 21, 2009.

topic: Opportunity, Directors, Talent

I've been lucky to get some path-breaking films, which proved to be the turning point in my career. Be it 'Rock on!' 'The Last Lear' or 'Raajneeti,' directors started working in a different way.

- Arjun Rampal

topic: Rocks, Careers, Directors, Turning Points

I feel fortunate. I've really gotten to work with amazing talented people, and to learn from them, which is why I'm doing this. If I can work with the best director I'm going to do it.

- Armie Hammer

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: People, Directors, Feels

It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.

- Arthur Cohn

topic: Directors, Conviction, Figures

There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather than doctrine and worship are to determine the form of the Church.

- Arthur Middleton

topic: Thinking, Church, Directors

I'm getting my respect as a video director. The fashion industry respects me and knows who I am.

- ASAP Rocky

topic: Fashion, Who I Am, Directors, Fashion Industry, Respect Me

Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that.

- Asia Argento

source: "Wild child" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. July 7, 2005.

topic: Children, Thinking, Directors

I've worked with very few directors who've asked of me what I asked of myself.

- Asia Argento

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Directors

I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director.

- Audrey Tautou

topic: Important, Directors, Scripts, English Speaking

Hollywood needs more women directors, and Mama Ava needs a carafe and a half of that sweet vino divino.

- Ava DuVernay

topic: Sweet, Directors, Hollywood, Vino

Oh, what the hell did I know? I went to the set the first day in full makeup and the director told me to take it off. So I did the film without makeup. I had nothing to do with anything I did. I never understood why I was so famous.

- Ava Gardner

topic: Makeup, Directors, Firsts, Without Makeup

After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled: â€œShe can't talk! She can't act! She's sensational!â€

- Ava Gardner

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Hands, Directors, Tests, Sensational

I'm a believer in trusting the director.

- B. J. Novak

source: Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. August 19, 2009.

topic: Directors, Believer

In Kurdistan, theres a lot of hardship - a lot of wars, a lot of bitter and difficult lifestyles. And witnessing all those made me a director.

- Bahman Ghobadi

topic: War, Directors, Hardship, Difficult Life

Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.

- Bai Ling

topic: Two, Directors, Asian

When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.

- Barkhad Abdi

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Directors, Realising

Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.

- Barry Pepper

topic: Directors, Casting, Snipers, Hard Core, Prison Guards

There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.

- Baz Luhrmann

topic: Directors, Hollywood, Speak

In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression.

- Bela Lugosi

topic: Moving, Expression, Directors

Every single director-actor I talked to, from Warren Beatty to Clint Eastwood to George Clooney, said the biggest mistake they made is not shooting enough footage of themselves.

- Ben Affleck

topic: Mistake, Directors, Actors, Beatty

In cinema, the leading player is the director.

- Ben Kingsley

topic: Player, Directors, Cinema

There are some directors, lesser in confidence or skill, who make the actor feel very uncomfortable because you feel you're auditioning for them, every day, and that's a terrible feeling on the set.

- Ben Kingsley

topic: Skills, Feelings, Directors

Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.

- Ben Stiller

topic: Parent, Comedian, Directors

If you look at the types of directors out there, I'm not as weird as most of them.

- Benjamin Lewin

topic: Directors, Looks, Type

For us, as actors, and even for the director, it gave us a sense of authenticity to what we were doing because we were talking about Hollywood and we were in Hollywood

- Berenice Bejo

source: "Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo THE ARTIST Interview". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 23, 2011.

topic: Talking, Directors, Hollywood

I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm.

- Bernard Hinault

topic: Agriculture, Directors, France

What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution. I was in Italy, but completely in love with the nouvelle vague movement, and directors like Godard, Truffaut, Demy. 'The Dreamers' was a total homage to cinema and that love for it.

- Bernardo Bertolucci

topic: Dreamer, Directors, Cinema, French Cinema

Somehow I got to be one of five or six actors that the directors would use as guinea pigs at this directing colloquium, where people pay to listen to and watch the directors direct.

- Beth Henley

topic: Pigs, People, Directors, Guinea, Guinea Pigs

I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.

- Bette Davis

topic: Directors, Scripts

I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be.

- Bill Condon

topic: Thinking, Trying, Directors

I have great respect for directors who know what they're doing.

- Bill Mumy

topic: Directors, Great Respect

My height can be a problem. A lot of directors and photographers are sometimes not happy because I'm pretty tall and especially if I work with short actors the difference can be pretty massive.

- Bill Skarsgard

topic: Differences, Height, Directors

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

topic: Years, Directors, Actors

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 you studied with Stella Adler all the sudden they'd let you in the door.

- Billy Bob Thornton

topic: Doors, Directors, Casting, Stella, Casting Directors

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

topic: Writing, Thinking, Directors

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 it, you gotta be ready to do it and it has to be something you care about. I've found something that I do care about.

- Billy Bob Thornton

topic: Years, Two, Directors, I Do Care

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

- Billy Wilder

topic: Sycophants, Directors, Midwife, Directing Film, Film Directing

The best director is the one you don't see.

- Billy Wilder

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Directors, Enemy Within

It could be a great script but the director is not the right person for me to work for at this time. So there are a lot of elements that come into play and a lot of variables, but more than anything it's got to be a great script and a great character.

- Blair Underwood

topic: Character, Play, Directors

And I think being a good director is being able to be completely tyrannical and you?ve got to be an absolute dictator while at the same time, you have to listen and see everything because it can all change on a dime.

- Bob Balaban

source: Hanif Kureishi (2002). “Intimacy and Midnight All Day: A Novel and Stories”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

topic: Thinking, Directors, Dimes

Directors are never in short supply of girlfriends.

- Bob Fosse

topic: Girlfriend, Directors

For me, a director is a director immaterial of the gender. At the end of the day, the audience is only interested in watching a good film.

- Boman Irani

topic: The End Of The Day, Directors, Film

As a director, or just a film fan who wants to enjoy the festival, Cannes is the worst place to be. But it must be a paradise for distributors and importers.

- Bong Joon-ho

source: "An Interview With South Korea’s Box Office Champ Director Bong Joon-ho". Interview with Jon Herskovitz, blogs.reuters.com. June 15, 2009.

topic: Directors, Fans, Paradise, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival

I am a fan of the monster and horror genre but that's not my style as a director.

- Bong Joon-ho

source: "Bong Joon-ho Exclusive Interview - TOKYO!" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 18, 2009.

topic: Style, Monsters, Directors, Horror Genre

I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine.

- Bong Joon-ho

source: "Interview: The Host & Mother Writer/Director Bong Joon-ho". Interview with Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. March 15, 2010.

topic: Directors, Titles, Vengeance

There are all kinds of directors I want to work with and all kinds of films that I want to do.

- Boyd Holbrook

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Directors, Want, Kind

Plan B is really a little garage band of three people, and our mandate has been to help get difficult material, that might not otherwise get made, to the screen and to work with directors we respect.

- Brad Pitt

topic: People, Directors, Three

Some directors have just one way of working; you either have to adhere to it or you don't.

- Bradley Cooper

topic: Directors, Way

You can't see any movie nowadays really without it having some sort of CGI treatment, albeit whether it's a creature or an environment, something like that. To make a point, sort of poetically in that case, but clearly it was a drama and how do you approach it? Well, I think what you're supposed to do is what the text dictates. What you bring to it and everything you need to know should be there, and pay attention to your director.

- Brendan Fraser

topic: Drama, Thinking, Directors

Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job. When you're the director, you kinda do all the work. I'm actually going tonight to check the prints of my movie even though the premiere's tomorrow night.

- Brett Ratner

topic: Jobs, Night, Directors, Premieres

When you're the director, you kinda do all the work.

- Brett Ratner

topic: Directors

I love movie directors. I don't care who it is.

- Brett Ratner

topic: Movie Love, Directors, Care

My musical director, Mark Cherry, is the most wonderful person who ever lived on God's good green Earth. He's my director, he does the arrangements. Really, he does everything - including certain janitorial chores!

- Brett Somers

source: "Somers in the City". Interview with Michael Portantiere, www.theatermania.com. July 3, 2003.

topic: Musical, Directors, Doe, Chores, Wonderful Person

A lot of student directors used to pick other students to be in their graduate films, so. I ended up doing a couple of them just for fun. Eventually, I got an agent through a friend and I did some commercials; then I got Knots Landing.

- Brian Austin Green

topic: Couple, Fun, Directors, Just For Fun, Landing

Television is certainly a writers-led medium. They're the ones who are there, they're the ones that are conferencing or whatever, with directors coming and going.

- Brian Baumgartner

source: Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. January 12, 2010.

topic: Directors, Television, Mediums

Larry Kasdan is a great director.

- Brion James

topic: Directors

All the films are hits before you turn the camera on. It's only in the execution that they fail. I've been less than happy with the way a couple of films were edited, but it's a director's prerogative and you gotta go with it.

- Bruce Willis

topic: Couple, Cameras, Directors, Prerogative, Edited

As a director you come in and tell the actors how good they are.

- Bryan Cranston

topic: Directors, Actors

Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases.

- Burton Richter

topic: Issues, Energy, Directors, New Energy, Greenhouse Gases

I feel like actors, having spent a lot of time on movie sets, tend to make decent directors, because they've been there, they know what they're doing, they've seen it done right, they've seen it done wrong, and they feel comfortable. There's not a lot of chin-scratching and wondering what your next move is.

- C. Thomas Howell

source: "C. Thomas Howell on The Outsiders, blackface, and how Marlboros got him cast in E.T". Interview with Will Harris, film.avclub.com. February 13, 2013.

topic: Moving, Directors, Actors, Next Move

It's a collaborative art form where we can both learn something from the other. That's what you want from the relationship with a director.

- Cam Gigandet

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Art, Directors, Want

Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so advantageous to go to a place that you already have a feel for, a literal and spiritual familiarity.

- Campbell Scott

topic: Spiritual, Trying, Directors, Practical Things

I've now been doing this for ten years, and I actually got to skip a stage of going to casting directors, and now I meet with the directors, either for lunch or an audition room, and I still read sides; you're never going to get around that, but I'm not the best person to go on an audition.

- Carly Schroeder

topic: Years, Lunch, Directors, Skip, Casting Directors

An actor really suffers when the director isn't prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do it fast.

- Carol Kane

topic: Running, Suffering, Directors, Running Out Of Time, Time Running Out

Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.

- Carter Burwell

topic: Directors, Would Be, Instruction

I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.

- Carter Burwell

topic: Writing, Directors, Enjoy

If someone suddenly lost their director the day before shooting and wanted me to step in, I'd be willing to. But I'd do brain surgery the same way. I'm always up for something new.

- Carter Burwell

topic: Brain, Directors, Shooting, Brain Surgery

Every director works differently.

- Cate Blanchett

topic: Directors

Be what we make, and not who we are.

- Catherine Breillat

topic: Directors, Who We Are, Filmmaking

Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often.

- Catherine Deneuve

topic: Directors

I've worked with a lot of great directors.

- Catherine Keener

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Directors

The great thing about having spent all this time on film sets is that I've been able to watch directors and how they work. I now know that this is what I want to do as well: to tell stories visually. But it's definitely my vision that I want to put across, nobody else's.

- Catherine McCormack

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Vision, Directors, Watches

I happen to have worked with male directors who don't understand women at all. Not at all. I'm flabbergasted by their ignorance.

- Catherine McCormack

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Ignorance, Directors, Males

Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process.

- Catherine McCormack

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Directors, Actors, Process

I'm happy to have a physical part in 'High Tension,' in 'Hereafter,' and in a lot of French movies and Belgian movies. But its not by chance directors choose me for physical parts. I like to do that. I like to tell a story also with the body. It's important, because you can tell a lot of things.

- Cecile de France

topic: Important, Directors, Stories, Belgians, French Movies

Adrian Lyne is such an incredible director.

- Chad Lowe

topic: Directors, Incredibles

There's only a few directors that can do what Emmerich does on an international scale and on an action scale.

- Channing Tatum

topic: Directors, Doe, Action

I've always said that movies are a direct mirror of the director.

- Channing Tatum

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Mirrors, Directors, Said

The film is a direct mirror of the director. If your director doesn't know how to dress, there will be an aesthetic of the film that won't come through - whether it's in the costumes if he doesn't know exactly what he wants or the look of the film.

- Channing Tatum

topic: Mirrors, Directors, Dresses

Technological civilization... rests fundamentally on power-driven machinery which transcends the physical limits of its human directors, multiplying indefinitely the capacity for the production of goods. Science in all its branches - physics, chemistry, biology, and psychology - is the servant and upholder of this system

- Charles A. Beard

topic: Civilization, Psychology, Directors

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

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 1971.

topic: Directors, Looks, Casting, Casting Directors

I never turned down anything and never argued with any producer or director.

- Charles Durning

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Directors, Producers, Turned Down

I don't even know if I can call myself a director.

- Charles S. Dutton

topic: Directors

I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director.

- Charles S. Dutton

topic: Directors, Actors, Want

They say that theater is the actor's medium, television is the writer's medium and film is the director's medium, and it's really true.

- Charlie Hunnam

topic: Directors, Actors, Television, Really True

And I just want to work with good directors and good people.

- Charlie Hunnam

source: "Dylan O’Brien Exclusive Interview TEEN WOLF". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 8, 2011.

topic: People, Directors, Good People

I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.

- Charlie Rose

source: Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. April 2, 2013.

topic: Directors, Architecture, Film

You don't even need the director's judgement. It's too much.

- Charlotte Gainsbourg

topic: Judgement, Directors, Needs

European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films

- Charlotte Rampling

topic: Character, Directors, Depth

Above all, a director has to be a good captain.

- Charlton Heston

topic: Directors, Captains

I like working with different directors; it keeps you on your toes.

- Chaske Spencer

source: "Chaske Spencer, Alex Meraz and Julia Jones Press Conference THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE". Press Conference, collider.com. June 22, 2010.

topic: Directors, Different, Toes

David Mamet was great to work with. He was everything that I thought he would be as a director. He's incredibly articulate, an easy collaborator. Extraordinarily knowledgeable about film and writing.

- Chiwetel Ejiofor

topic: Writing, Directors, Would Be

Actors rarely stay in touch with directors after they've filmed together. We go back to real life.

- Chloe Sevigny

topic: Real, Together, Directors

As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors

- Chow Yun-Fat

source: "Working in Front of the Camera Keeps Me Alive'". Interview with Stephen Short, content.time.com. December 27, 1999.

topic: Directors, Actors, Factories

Having a director who is also an actor makes for that very relaxed way of working and it's empowering.

- Chris Hemsworth

topic: Empowering, Directors, Actors

Ultimately, making movies, if you don't have a big star, it's hard to do. Or if it's not a star director.

- Chris Messina

source: "Chris Messina: Hollywood's Busiest Man and His Existential Questions". Hollywood Reporter Interview, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 15, 2013.

topic: Stars, Directors, Bigs

I always thought when I was doing more melodramatic stuff like Everwood that the directors were constantly reeling me in and stopping me from being funny. I've always tried to find a funny angle on things, and 99 percent of the time, it just doesn't work.

- Chris Pratt

topic: Directors, Stopping, Stuff, Being Funny

A lot of directors, they're creative, but they're different.

- Chris Tucker

topic: Creative, Directors, Different

So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of his own that he can say, 'oh yeah - that's a great point.' And you never know; often you can help far more than you think you can, because there's so much more that he's juggling than an actor.

- Christian Bale

topic: Thinking, Vision, Directors, Juggling

The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of view, they set the rhythm and they make the final decisions.

- Christian Bale

topic: Views, Decision, Directors

Tony Scott was one of the best directors Ive ever worked with, and I was devastated when I heard about his death. He was a great guy with great energy. But this is a difficult business, and peoples lives are sometimes difficult.

- Christian Slater

topic: Guy, Energy, Directors

On a film set, we're all glorified troubleshooters, really, as directors. It's not if a problem arises. It's when.

- Christine Swanson

source: Source: blogs.indiewire.com

topic: Directors, Problem, Film, Film Set

In film producing, there is an inherent tension between the director, the money and the producer, and that's what keeps it flowing and honest and accountable.

- Christine Vachon

topic: Directors, Honest, Film

There are times when directors just don't know what they're doing.

- Christopher Atkins

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Directors

I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.

- Christopher Eccleston

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Thinking, Theatre, Directors, Film And Television

Twelve years on sets watching directors, I've taken a bit from everybody and rejected a lot.

- Christopher Eccleston

topic: Taken, Years, Directors

Usually directors hire me because I'm what they are looking for. But once in a while, and it's very rare, they will hire me and then try to make me over.

- Christopher Walken

topic: Trying, Directors

I know I don't go looking for directors.

- Ciaran Hinds

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Directors

I always scout locations first. The apartments, the railway tracks, the cafÃ©, the canal - I figure out the geography of the film.

- Claire Denis

source: Interview with Adam Nayman, reverseshot.org. June 26, 2009.

topic: Track, Directors, Location

And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy a director of category B, not a big director.

- Claudia Cardinale

source: Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2003.

topic: Directors, Bigs, Categories, Sergio Leone

Directors never give you anything.

- Claudia Christian

topic: Giving, Directors

I think that Phil Kaufman is one of the best directors that I have come across.

- Clive Owen

source: Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. September 20, 2011.

topic: Thinking, Directors

My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.

- Cole Porter

source: 1955 Interview, 8 Feb.

topic: Inspiration, Directors, Telephones, Four Letter Words, Good Authors

I kind of have an interest in all history. And I suspect it comes from being Irish - we like stories, we like telling stories, which makes a lot of us lean towards being writers or actors or directors.

- Colm Meaney

source: "Q&A – Colm Meaney (Thomas Durant)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com.

topic: Directors, Stories, Actors

Theater is a lot more interactive, more of a cohesive unit. With television, it can be a different director every episode.

- Condola Rashad

topic: Different, Television, Directors

I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.

- Conrad Hall

source: "DIVA TALK: Chatting with Drowsy Chaperone's Sutton Foster Plus Pajama Game on Disc". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. May 12, 2006.

topic: Thinking, Directors, Filmmaker

There are a lot of directors who are knowledgeable about images, and others who aren't.

- Conrad Hall

topic: Directors, Knowledgeable

I would like, in the long term, to be recognized as a writer-director-actor.

- Corey Feldman

topic: Long, Directors, Actors

I'd love to see the rushes but it's just not allowed because directors and also a lot of actors feel that if they see their work, and the director likes what they're doing, the actor might try to correct their mistakes.

- Corey Haim

topic: Mistake, Trying, Directors

I feel like a good director provokes you to ask questions about your character, but doesn't answer them for you.

- Crystal Reed

source: "Tyler Posey and Crystal Reed Exclusive Interview Teen Wolf (MTV’s Reboot Airing in 2011)". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 19, 2010.

topic: Character, Directors, Answers

Now, I have big-money offers on three movies, and I have director approval. That's kind of scary,' he says. 'No directors have been attached. That's a lot of pressure on me

- Cuba Gooding, Jr.

topic: Scary, Directors, Three

As an actor you have to bring to the table your creative input. But when a director like Ridley Scott says I want you to do this this way, you know when he gets to the editing room he has a reason for it. Its like watching a masterpiece.

- Cuba Gooding, Jr.

topic: Editing, Creative, Directors

Some friends of mine who are actors feel directing shuts them down and kills all their impulses, but the worst thing for me is if I feel a director hasn't noticed.

- Cynthia Nixon

topic: Directors, Actors, Down And

I have worked with some great directors.

- Dabney Coleman