Directors Quotes

I don't really need a lot of help from a director.

I feel like some of the best talent is on TV right now, with the writing, acting and great directors.

On a film set, we're all glorified troubleshooters, really, as directors. It's not if a problem arises. It's when.

Ultimately when I throw myself behind a movie, I have to really believe in that directors vision.

Being a head designer or art director or just even a designer, you need a certain level of experience and maturity.

Usually directors hire me because I'm what they are looking for. But once in a while, and it's very rare, they will hire me and then try to make me over.

You don't really audition for Hamlet; Hamlet is one of those roles that a director or producer decides you should do it.

I know I don't go looking for directors.

There's a different set of writers and a different director for the films, but Marvel has turned it into a pretty spectacular job.

There's nothing worse than a director that keeps changing their mind. Because, unlike the directors I work with, I'm not decisive at all.

I like directors that give their composer a juicy role in their films. Some films have a small, minor role for music, some have a larger role.

If the director's a communist, whatever, he's a communist. All I care is that he directs. For the actor, the same thing. All you really care is that he comes in and performs.

When you think of a particular director, you think you would have liked to be with them on one particular film and not necessarily on some other one.

It can be a bit annoying if another actor is trying to talk to the director and the wife is sitting on his lap.

The only entry level position on a movie is director.

Theater is a lot more interactive, more of a cohesive unit. With television, it can be a different director every episode.

I would like, in the long term, to be recognized as a writer-director-actor.

First of all, Sam Fuller left a group of extraordinary movies that are unique, that are "Fuller-esque," as one might say, which makes them stand apart from any other director's films.

Some friends of mine who are actors feel directing shuts them down and kills all their impulses, but the worst thing for me is if I feel a director hasn't noticed.

A director can come from anywhere, but having a story background, if you have nothing else, is probably a good thing to have because it's really the one tool you need.

The whole thing with comedy is that you are always in control. Writer, director, actor, producer, and sometimes bouncer. And you are just a piece of their puzzle.

When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.

On stage I am the actor, director and the bouncer all at the same time. Fear does not exist in this dojo does it? No Sensi! Sorry when I get excited I have to toss in some Karate Kid quotes.

You know I want to be a director, but you could never truly see the movies in my head and that, Ed, is why we broke up.

I don't think film is the writer's medium, and so I was interested to see what a director would do with it.

I always feel that if you put me in a room with a director and a writer and let me talk about the script, I can give a good account of myself.

I would consider doing any part as long as the script is good and the film has an interesting director.

When you first get out of doing a show for a long time where you played a teenager, casting directors and producers all still look at you as being the character that you played for so long.

I have a philosophy, a belief, which I can see in many, many other directors that your early work is your best work, because you don't know what you're doing.

Normally, I'm a very controlling director. Directors are controlling. It's part of the job, but there's various degrees of it and the constructs I normally work on are very controlling constructs.

I started as a director and just fell upon acting.

I understand the formula that producers hire directors and directors are hired to direct and actors are hired to act. I don't have any conflict with any directors because I know they're the boss.

I think a good director can embrace any genre and it's the kind of thing where you always want to do something different. You always want to challenge yourself.

The hardest thing, as a director, is that it's never right. Nothing you do is ever right. It's never exactly how you envision it. Making a movie is about making it better.

As a writer, you have to be willing to kill your darlings, and I'm a writer first. As a director, I've got no problem cutting the scenes.

As a director, I like trying to unlock the subtext of the scene and try to put the camera in a place that helps that.

My favorite parts of work as an actor and a director are those unplanned mistakes that do happen, because it's like catching lightning in a bottle. It's the best part of what we do.

TV directors just aren't sexy for some reason, Although, you know, Rob and Kim [Manners] are very sexy in my eyes.

A lot of times passion projects or films are difficult to make because they don't have proven directors attached to them.

I've never wanted to be a fireman, in my life. I've never really wanted to grow up and be anything other than a film director.

I don't think you can be a director without a kind of sense of competitiveness.

The candidates at the Republican debate looked like a town council that was outlawing dancing. They looked like a board of directors that was lying about poisoning a river.

If you, my fellow copywriters or art directors, want to win the award, devote your genius to making the cash register ring.

Female directors, directors of color are a big thing for me, which are both important voices and potent voices that need to be heard. That's how I want to engage myself as an actor going forward.

As a director, you have to go in with a really, really, really clear picture of what you want. That's the point of my commentaries. It's so difficult because you're the harshest critic.

I think actors do make really, really wonderful directors.

You never want to be the director who dropped the ball, you know?

As a director, you always want things to look good. You're always trying to make things look tidy. That's what we're all trained to do.

I write mostly as a director. That's why my screenplays are very detailed. So I get into the images I see. I like that.

Michael Winterbottom is one of the great directors of this century.