Directors Quotes

I think great directors really respect their actors and vice versa. That mutual respect makes the job fun instead of anything but.

If you’ve ever wondered why some writers who, in your humble opinion, don’t write as well as you do yet are rich and famous while you struggle onward, this is the reason. They are great directors.

I didn't know [director] Aaron Woodley at all, but I knew I wanted to be a part of [ The Entitled ].

Musicians ought to reclaim some of the power in the houses of production. The opera houses are run either by managers or by stage directors, never by musicians.

I'm not tough when it comes to people criticizing the people that I protect, and those are the actors. It makes them scared to do it again for another director.

If you are a star in Hollywood then you are always a star in your eyes, but not always in the eyes of new directors for whom your great performances are always fading into the past.

When I became a director, I wanted to convince a very reluctant Sidney into allowing me to go on the journey of his life. Sidney had gone ahead of every other African American actor.

The curse of comic book adaptations, when I was younger, was that the director or producer would go, "Don't worry about it, it's just a comic book."

The thing I love about acting is that it's got nothing to do with me; it's about bringing forth a director's vision. It's like a release. I'm glad it's come back into my life.

Woody's [Allen] very relaxed with the cast and likes them to do their thing and is not an over-director type. Somehow it works.

Where else do you find great directors? Acting is one of the places.

I enjoy collaborating with all of the directors I have worked with. I love collaborating with creative people on interesting projects.

A male director doesn't come to situations the same way that a female director would.

I didn't even know what a film director was. To me, Charlie Chaplin was a goofy clown, and John Ford - what? Never heard of him.

My ideal role would be the lead in a film with a director that I really appreciate and admire.

I'm just trying to find a good project. Work with a good director, someone I really admire. Find a good role.

It's really hard as a screenwriter, you feel like you have a vision and then you turn it over to a director and you have to let it go.

It's so hard to find a director who, when you look at their body of work, you like everything.

I have a strong and strange character, and I've rarely met directors who knew what to do with this character. One of the few who did was my father, and in the theatre, Arthur Nauzyciel.

As he demonstrated with 'Juno' and 'Up in the Air,' Reitman has an uncanny knack among contemporary directors for tapping into the zeitgeist in dramatically satisfying ways.

A lot of TV is put together by teams, by writing staffs and several different directors. It's a great, very smart way to make television. It's worked for however long TV's been around.

Some directors are like it's their... nothing can change, nothing can move. I like collaborating, even when an extra has an idea, I like to bring to really have collaboration.

I would love to meet some directors, and why not do some other movies in America? But, I'm not obsessed with this idea. I'm feeling very free in Europe.

The lack of women directors is a sad fact of life. Kathryn Bigelows thrilling Best Director win may help turn things around.

Directing is the last frontier for women in the movie business. We are studio heads, we are producers and we are writers, but we are not directors in any numbers.

I feel like this is the way I was meant to interact with acting. Which is as a director, and helping, working with actors to find their way. Facilitating their performances is so satisfying for me.

I'm not one of those directors who can just kind of walk away from the edit room and come back and check in.

I'm so consistent that my director's cuts are usually 20-25 minutes longer than the released version of the movies.

You don't have your film finished when you have your director's cut finished. It's just a bunch of green screen.

Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.

Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. From Here to Eternity must have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann.

If [Donald] Trump wins narrowly, Democrats can blame the loss on FBI director James Comey, who inserted himself late in the campaign in an unprecedented way.

The best times I had on film sets were the times the director let me express myself, but those were rare.

Some of the greatest directors never got an Oscar, like Kubrick, or Hitchcock. For me, personally, I think the body of work is more important than winning an Oscar.

I always say that I'm not the director, I'm part of the team.

I just want to keep working. I guess I gravitate towards stories that I like and directors that I want to work with, and I hope that it works out.

Im so lucky to have the opportunity to work with some directors and some actors I wouldnt have dared to think I would work with one day.

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

I'm always 100% committed to a character, a story and a director, and with Michael Mann it was 1,000%. I don't know how to explain this.

As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.

It's always a good collaboration between the actor and the writer and the director to try stuff out, during the process.

As an actor, when you walk into a room to audition, you get five minutes with a casting director, who doesn't even look at you, most of the time.

A lot of solo directors have a really strong creative producer with them. Jay and I have less of a need for that because we have each other.

I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.

This is the fourth movie that I've done with this set of director-writers and I've learned to trust them at this point, because actually I started on Lego before they did.

Some of my favorite scenes aren't in the movie. Because you, at some point, realize that your responsibility as director is purely to the story. It's not to your pleasure.

Even if my movies weren't big blockbusters, directors generally liked me, so they would fight for me.

I love being on sets with very seasoned directors as well as very new directors. Every time is a discovery process. You learn something new every time.

As a 25 year director of a non-profit program I began to see the need to shift from only doing projects/programs to also doing policy work.