Directors Quotes

I think you have to have different tools for each job - you know producer is very different from a director and very different from an actor.

This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all.

I worked for John Ford, Howard Hawks, Henry Hathaway, Raoul Walsh - I worked for some real good directors.

Oh, well, in Los Angeles everybody is an actor, or a producer, or a writer, or a director, or an agent, or... So everybody understands the hours.

Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.

Mankiewicz was a brilliant director.

Directing, I just feel comfortable. I know what I want. I know what I want from my crew. I lead by example. I have limitless energy as a director.

Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't

I think drug movies free the director to make intense films

Actors wait tables, directors work at video stores.

Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.

That was the good thing about having different directors [on series]. You had to stay on your toes.

I see what's behind everything the director wants to do.

I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor.

I found it to be more challenging to be in a huge effects movie, because a lot of the things aren't there.You have to trust the director and react to nothing.

I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors.

As an actor, you tell part of a story. As a writer, you get more of telling that story. But as a director, they're seeing the world through your eyes.

It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.

Some call me director, producer, filmmaker. I prefer to call myself pube-king.

As a producer, I probably am a little stronger than most, since I was a director originally.

Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director.

In the best of all possible worlds, directors would obsess about the quality of their storytelling, and not the details of their technical methods.

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

I'm not intimidated by other actors at all - or directors. I don't care who they are. But I am intimidated by writers. I hold them in the highest esteem.

I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.

Steven Spielberg makes Minority Report with the newest digital technology; other directors seem to be trying to make their movies from it.

So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies.

The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie.

First, speaking for myself, I don't want to ever be in a position where I'm telling other directors how to make movies, because I don't think it's any of my business.

Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such freedom.

A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a director an army.

Directors never direct me. They just let me loose.

When you work with directors who really love actors, who love their contribution, it feels amazing. But sometimes when you work with directors, you feel like youre in the way.

Any great director is also someone who is incredibly intelligent about whom they hire around them.

I love when a director says, "I don't know."

I am not a master-class director. I am not a teacher. I am a coach. I dont have a methodology. Each actor is different. And on the film set, you have to be next to them all.

I've worked with Steven Spielberg three times. I'm proud to say that I'm one of those actors that continues to get hired by the same directors.

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.

By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.

I'm actually one who will encourage directors to cut my lines.

Once we get three more directors elected, the Sierra Club will no longer be pro-hunting and pro-trapping and we can use the resources of the $95-million-a-year budget to address some of these issues.

I'm a huge fan of the director, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and his work, and I knew he was going to be an amazing actor's director, based on the performances that I saw in his movies.

Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.

I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director.

Snoop Scorsese, that's my director name.

I don't think it's a director's job to peek behind the curtain too much.

To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision.

I think of myself as a meat-and-potatoes kind of director.

As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over.

Disney was kind enough, thoughtful enough and believed enough in me, as a director, to wait for me to be available.