Directors Quotes

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.

I think every director has a different methodology.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Stanley Kubrick was very selective when he went into a close-up. Every director has his taste in a performance, but Stanley would explore a scene to find what was most interesting for him.

When it came to the on-camera TV stuff, I'd be standing next to the director, my friend, and he'd be asked a question that I should have been answering.

Just being hired by a great director is complimentary.

Obviously there was Keith Haring and Robert Mapplethorpe, but Howard was on the brink of becoming a famous director - it didn't happen because he died.

I always think it's a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.

I want to really stress this, I am a director, an actor, producer, action choreographer, and I'm also an investor.

I think it's possible to be free in a big production. It's the eye of the director and the actor and the story.

It's often the case with directors that they don't like to share credit, which is the case of Stanley. He would prefer just A Film By Stanley Kubrick including music and everything.

The irony of a director going to film festivals is you never get to see any of the films.

Every actress has a line she'll draw, where she'll say, 'This I will do and this I won't.' For me, everything has to be important to the story and the director has to be able to tell me why.

Emil's [Nava], the video director. Originally, I was meant to do all the stuff that the puppet was doing. I just wasn't that comfortable with doing it, so he had a puppet made.

If Martin Scorsese calls, I am available. And then there the ones, well, you can just run down the list - any of those Oscar-nominated films, they have amazing directors across the board.

I imagine as an axiom you could say that the better the play, the less "creativity" the director need exert.

There's only one list that's more illustrious than the list of directors who won the Palme d'Or. It's the list of directors who didn't.

I think when you pay attention to the shots, you're aware of the fact that there's a director. Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel.

Each one of my films is personal; each one of my films is emotionally autobiographical. And I like directors who do that.

As a director, you should choose a project that will educate you and enrich your life, because you're going to be doing it for two years.

I always want to challenge myself as a writer. I consider myself more of a writer than I do a director.

I always wanted to direct. Directing is a lot more of a commitment though, a lot more time. I like directors who do very few takes, they know what they want.

Sexism is real and it persists in film and television. I've seen female directors openly undermined by male cinematographers in front of the entire crew

I thought it was a huge conflict of interest to be the director and the subject - it's very sketchy territory to be in. I've seen what's happened to other directors who have done that.

Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.

I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.

As a director, if you know what you want, then it's not scary.

I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director.

What goes on between a father and a son, which is usually such a private matter, is that they are able to be honest with each other, and be honest with me, as a director. Its just remarkable.

Most of the films are only 60% taken, rest is a director's input.

Honestly, I look at the project and I look at the people attached and I look at the director. If it's a role that I feel will help me, as an actor, then I'll definitely take it.

In every shoot, between the actor and the director there is manipulation. I'm not saying that negatively. It's healthy.

Of course I am a child of European culture. There are a number of great directors from which I learned, but there is nobody in particular I got inspired from.

Choosing a Board of Directors based on race and gender is a lousy way to run a company.

David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation.

As a director, try to be humble and not to overdo it, not overcoverage and over-covering the scene.

As a director myself, you want to have colleagues and collaborators that respect your authority as the director. I'm very comfortable with that, and I've done a lot of work in second unit.

To televisionize any serious problem, the program directors face the task of making the message 'go down smooth' until the audience is delivered to the commercial.

(Sometimes when) someone's directing for the first time, they're afraid to include everyone - they have to prove they're the director.

[on editing of the films] There is always a question of time, and the director. I've worked with a lot of directors who don't mind my involvement. They appreciated it.

The thing I loved the most about being art director was picking the photographers and working with them.

You will never see'Altman's Great Film of the Seventies: The Director's Cut' because you have never seen a film of mine that wasn't the director's cut. I have never permitted it.

I'm very interested in directing actors - many directors direct cameras.