Directors Quotes

I do my best to hold the director's opinion above my own.

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

In France, I am so free. I have more freedom than most American directors could dare to even imagine.

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.

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.

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

The casting directors that were aware of 'The Real World' looked at me as a joke. It was so hard to get away from that.

I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants.

I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two.

My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.

The performance is created by the director. The actor is the material. And I think that has to be true.

A film is the director's medium. The theater is an actor's.

I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors.

I get to play a great character while working with great actors and great directors on a great show.

For some directors, I'm the actor from hell.

I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director.

I don't have a director. The audience directs me.

If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn't have directors at all.

I believe, as a producer/director, your duty is to create a beautiful horror film that really resonates.

I think it's very boring for a director to always do the same kind of movies.

On every movie I’ve done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don’t envy them, at all.

As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along.

I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.

In film school, I knew I wanted to be a director, but I found out pretty damn quickly that nobody was just going to hand me a script to direct.

My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director.

I can't act. I simply must be myself, do the things that seem natural to me. When I get with a director who wants me to act, I'll be lost.

Directors are the captains of the ship, and it's your job as the lead actor to make sure that the rest of the cast understand that by doing whatever he says.

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

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.

I like the old school heavy metal bands like AC/DC and Aeromith. I like that type of music. As the director, I tried to influence the type of music the bands in the movie would play.

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

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

I don't always see my movies right away. And there are some I haven't seen at all. Sometimes that bothers the directors, so I'm obliged to see them.

Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.

Directors say that you should get actors before they are recognized. They will be a pain in the...or have an opinion.

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

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

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

Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there.

I've never been a fan of directors who clutter a piece with all sorts of crazy preconceptions or weird ideas.

I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.

I do listen to a lot of music. Actually, I very often ask directors if they can offer up a play list. They very often have one anyway that they're listening to.

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

I came up in the community center. I used to be physical director of the South Central Community Center in Chicago on 83rd. It's still there. It used to be around there when I was a kid.

A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.

Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.

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.

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

You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.