Directors Quotes

Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.

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

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.

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

I was very fortunate in having David Fincher, the director come to me. Now I've seen the finished product, I feel that every bit of the nine months we spent on the film was worth it.

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

My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.

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

I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like the story.

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

On a movie set that works, you have your father figure, the director, you have your siblings, your other actors.

I always have directors who are somewhat frustrated because they'll reference a beautifully obscure film from the '50s or '60s or '70s, and I've not seen it.

There are two kinds of directors in the theater. Those who think they are God and those who are certain of it.

I'm pretty much a character-driven film director and my movies are smaller. I don't do a lot of coverage. I use lots of master shots.

Very broadly speaking, you can put directors into two areas: One for whom you work, and the other with whom you work. And I prefer the latter, for obvious reasons.

The first film is everything you want to say and how you want to say it. Lots of directors will do that and do it really well, but the second film is not so easy.

My advice for other female directors: don't think of your gender as a handicap. Don't think about it at all. Just tell the best story you can, and don't stop until you do.

No comedy should be longer than 90 minutes. There's no such thing as a good long joke.

I realized that a lot of the great directors that I admire from [Ingmar] Bergman to [Fredrico] Fellini re always shooting, then going into the editing room, and shooting again.

I have worked with some very great directors.

A director is what a director wants to be. If you want to force something, you can fight to the death and maybe get fired, but it's your job to help push things along.

Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to take me to see really interesting arty films in Los Angeles.

As an actor, you're a color of paint on someone else's palette. But as a director, it's your canvas and you make the painting you want to make.

I still think that movies are amazing; I respect actors and directors.

Like everyone else, I try to do quality work with great directors. But much of it has to do with luck.

I'd like to think every director I've worked with has fallen in love with me, I know Dorothy Arzner did.

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.

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.'

Everything is the director's fault - you can quote me on that. There are no excuses.

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.

And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director.

I adapt to directors, I don't like making directors adapt to me. If I'm with Clint Eastwood then I'll do two takes, if I'm with Fincher I'll do 50 - though the thought of that sounds horrible.

Joe Mantello is the uber director. I wrote him a card tonight saying basically, 'Will you adopt me?'

If everyone's comfortable, you can pretty much make any kind of movie that the director wants.

I love doing film soundtracks and working with directors on how they want the scene to be portrayed on audio as opposed to visual. I like the collaborative effort of working with people.

I think producers are more interested in backing concepts than directors and writers. I don't think that's the right way of making a decision about whether you're going to back a film or not.

Bollywood directors are like cricketers where in one match you score a century, and in the next match, you are out for a duck! Moreover, very few directors are consistent in Bollywood.

I'm not a great fan of green screen. It's not much fun for actors. It's great for directors and technical people and cameramen.

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.

If you have the right actors and you can give them the freedom to explore, you've done a lot of your work as a director.

I love the act of writing. I like the quiet, internal aspect of it. If I lost track of that, I couldn't direct the same way. I couldn't be a director for-hire; it's just not my nature.

Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel.

It would be horrible to be micro-managed! I don't think directors can really micro-manage people. It's just impossible.

My main interest in being a director, and the most important thing to me, is that world with the actors.

Russian directors, we are shooting the same streets. The same things. Tom Jacobson has a fresh eye and found very interesting and very cool locations and angles and characters.

It's quite liberating to have a director stand beside the camera and say: "Do this now, and do that now..." It's also a bit sordid but it liberates an actor, I think.

I didn't want to be a director for hire. It really just took me a long time to learn how to direct and to feel up to the job.

Directors don't always create, they can also destroy with too many demands.

Be collaborative. I've had some of my best experiences with directors who were able to sit down and have a conversation and ask me what I thought.

Obviously I would love to work with all these great directors like the Coen Brothers, Tarantino. Robert Rodriguez is a dream director of mine.