Directors Quotes

David Fincher is one of the best directors I know, so I'm really curious to see it. Really curious, and I want to hear Daniel have the Swedish accent.

I really like directors who give you a certain amount of autonomy because I think a lot about my characters and I think a lot about scenes and choices.

I depend on good editors and a good director. It's up to the way they shoot it, the lighting and all that. I like how small you can be on TV.

If you are at odds with the director, neither one of you is going to get anywhere. You really do have to be able to make both of you happy.

The director has to win, because you should never force a director to shoot something they don't believe in.

All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that you have a script and it's very linear.

I was lucky to have my wife as the art director, and it turned out to be quite something - a great success. I'm very proud of it.

I love working with women directors. They don't mind making you cute.

A script is only as good as the director who's making it.

There's only a handful of directors who really understand what I call the alchemical balance between a man and a woman, in a woman's body, which most people consider the strong woman character.

And there was a very famous man called Michael Powell, who probably is the greatest director all round, except possibly a couple of men.

When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.

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.

Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror.

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

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.

I think audiences, producers and directors included, develop crushes on actors (actresses in particular) and then lose interest and move on to the next one.

I think a lot of people have a vision of L.A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions by the swimming pool.

Sometimes directors feel a script needs something, but they're not sure what it is, so they show it to a friend; if the friend is a writer, he ends up kicking around with that script for a while.

I will one day be thin, but Vincent Gallo will always be the director of The Brown Bunny.

The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes I'm the woman.

I'm not interested in making movies only with female protagonists. I think it's ridiculous to think that a female director can't direct men. That makes no sense to me.

In my experience, the best directors I've worked with hired people for a purpose. They hire them with trust. There's not many notes. There's confidence and support.

Every actor you work with has a different method, same with the director. You have to figure out what your shared language is and how to best support each other, and also take care of yourself.

I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word "lavish" and everything being magnificent.

Every director is themselves; [they're] not playing a part.

It's possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can't make a good movie from a bad script.

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

As a consumer of entertainment, as a director, I'm always interested in questions of identity and who someone is and how they're perceived and who they are versus who they thought they'd be.

Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies.

With Alien, because we always use a different director, each one kind of stands on its own. So I guess it's possible for them to make another one, but we have no plans.

However happy the director is, I have to be okay with it. I'm pretty strict with myself, about throwing things out or trying to be true to whatever the situation dictates.

A lot of new American directors have had mentors who have given them advice. And some of them have had the way paved for them by huge Hollywood directors who saw a younger version of themselves.

I actually love Scorsese comedies. He's an underrated comedy director. I think his comedies are some of the best comedies ever made.

I'm an unusual director in that my cut is usually shorter then the final released film. I like short films.

The main reason for choosing a project is not really the renown of the director that's making the project. I feel like it's the fact of an actor to constantly want to do different things.

Work very very hard. This business is no joke. Make sure you know what you want or you might be taking someone else's view instead of your own.

People think women directors are tough. Truth is, I'm a pussycat and I hate conflict. I just want everyone to be happy on set.

As an actor, most of the time, you only have so much say in how, what and where things go. As a director, you really get to paint a bigger picture. You have many more brushes to use.

You never know as a director what other directors do. Because you don't get to see what they do.

It's just unfair that talent of color aren't given the same opportunities as white and male actors, directors, producers, writers, et cetera.

I think every director has a different methodology.

As a film director I like to have the actors create their own close-ups. It's an older style of filmmaking.

Frank Miller is more of a visionary than any director I've ever worked with, and he achieves that vision better than anyone I've ever worked with.

When I started out modeling, there weren’t casting directors and there weren’t stylists, so you just dealt directly with the designer. We were all much closer back then...

My whole family is very artistic - my uncles are all actors and theatre directors.

When I'm acting, I'm in the director's hands. I'm very happy to be. I like to be focused on what I'm doing.

It is universally agreed that Jean Renoir was one of the greatest of all directors, and he was also one of the warmest and most entertaining.

Whenever I work on something, I try and throw everything I have at it. Then if the director finds it useful they use it, and if not, they ignore it!

William Castle and Alfred Hitchcock were the first director-personalities. Before then, nobody in America knew what a director was.