Directors Quotes

The foreign-language Oscar is something that doesn't go to the producer or the director; it goes to the country.

All of the directors I work with have their own unique gifts. My particular segment deals with online dating. It's a very interesting take on it, and a great observation of what goes on there.

I know, as an actor, I don't like sharing everything with the director. And it's fine if they don't with me.

It is great to work on different scripts with different directors who have different styles. You get so much experience from that.

A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty.

I think certainly directing is a visual medium, but it's also about communication, and a lot of times great directors are lacking in communication skills, which is rather shocking to discover that.

When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there.

My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.

As a director, I never feel that I have the answers.

I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors.

Stallone is a pretty tough director. You don't mess with him.

I get involved with projects based on three parameters - the script, the actors involved and the director.

As an action director I always try to bring something fresh and new.

I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story.

I have always been a great fan of Peter Chan and many other great directors who specialize in anything outside of action.

Sirk was every womans dream of a director.

I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.

Sometimes things are nothing on paper, but a genius director turns it into something amazing.

You can have a great script, or a great director and a bad script, and get a great movie. Nothing really guarantees anything.

I'm just trying to choose interesting, quirky projects or things with interesting directors or just movies that have a lot of people I like attached to them so I know I'm going to have a good time.

When I do go to L.A., it is usually for a reason - to meet with a director or something - but I'm always so happy to go back to London.

Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films.

And people say it all the time: 'You're a celebrity.' No, I'm an actor. I'm a producer. I'm a director. I'm a toad. I'm roadkill. I'm anything but a celebrity.

I do feel there's certainly some films where you can feel that the directors don't care about the genre and they don't care about their characters.

Well, 45-odd years of doing it, so we all pile up the things we like about directors and the things we don't like about directors. And sometimes they're very similar.

Todd [Phillips] doesn't care. That's part of his genius as a director, he will say anything to anybody.

The way I see it, when I go out as an actor, it should be on a type of film I'm never going to do as a director.

When I'm filming a kill scene [as a director], I just get happier and happier as we chop up body parts.

Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore.

When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.

I didn't have the problem of finding myself at 45 on the wrong course - I always wanted to be a film director.

I have worked with another first-time director who was not that open, and it was probably one of the worst experiences I ever had, so my antennas are really out.

I think part of the fun of being an actor is getting to work with different directors and seeing their take on it, what they're passionate about. They all have different ideas about your character.

On the film where I didn't get along with the director, I just decided to not speak to him.

But it's cool working with female directors because I'm a girl, so you do relate to them more. You can talk to them about other stuff like clothes and all that.

Carbon trading engages finance directors. It takes the issue of energy efficiency right to the top of the company.

I have a real thing for Mexican directors. And I love Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.

If I were in the director's chair, I would cast [Geena Davis] in something awesome every six months if I had the choice.

I'm lucky that I've worked with so many different directors with very different styles and with a lot of different actors.

In Hollywood there's no real material. They would send me stuff, but I hadn't even seen the director. If I don't see the director's eyes, I'm not going. I'm not even going to pack my bags.

In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a serial kisser refuses to leave me.

The thing I love about working with first-time directors is that it's always quite shocking how little difference there is between them and directors who've been directing all their lives.

I love working with women - I love women - and we need more women directors. We need more feminine sensibilities in movies.

I can count on one hand the directors who actually directed me.

Directors should not be forced to advocate anything in their works because of their demographic identity.

I love the work, I love being in front of the camera and working with actors and directors and creating something. For me, it's like learning everyday.

When people think of diversity, they think people of color, but it also means women, who are severely underrepresented as directors, writers and producers.

It's important for me to work with a strong director because I know I can go to some really deep places, I just need direction on how to get there.

There's very few directors that know what that rehearsal's for. And often it's just about calming down the director. If he could see it or she sees it, she goes oh, it's going to be okay.

I have worked with a lot of great directors but my favorites are all entirely different from one another. They don't go about it the same way.