Directors Quotes

I never feel like a smug or a smart-alec film director, and there are plenty of those around.

When you start a new project and they say, "Your director is going to be Joe Blo," you're hoping that Joe Blo will be the next Martin Scorsese, but it doesn't always work out that way.

Sometimes, with directors, you have to take what they say and translate it in your head, into something that makes sense to you, because you're speaking two different languages.

The good part of working in TV is it's like being a studio director in old Hollywood and approaching different genres. It's a chance to try out different styles.

The really important people in TV are not the directors; they're the writers.

As a director, I get to have a much broader creative expression than as an actress.

I think women have made progress in cinematography, contrary to women directors, who I think have regressed. There are many more women cinematographers than when I started.

When you're an actor, you're very much exposed, but in a strange way you're totally protected behind a character, behind a script, behind a director.

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.

The director's in charge of every single decision [in film]. It's a dictatorship.It's a benevolent dictatorship, but it's true. It's every single shot. There's nothing arbitrary.

Maybe if we sit out for the next few years and let Clint Eastwood get a little experience, he's going to be a good director.

As an actor I can sort of smell a duff note, that isn't full of that much conviction. My worst thing with directors is when I know more than them about the character.

If you knew my wife, you'd be like, "Yeah, you're very married." She runs the household. I refer to her as "the greatest director I've ever worked with."

I've been very lucky to work with a lot of amazingly supportive directors.

I'm not a feminist, but I just think it's a really cool process working with a woman as a director.

A good director has to be a captain - he has to work with a lot of people every day.

When I was shooting with Tarantino and Mike Mills and amazing directors, it made me think that I would never be a director. It's obviously too hard.

I always choose my movie because of a director and a story and a, a character.

Directors love to do music, they've been doing that all along.

In my own experience of male and female directors, people have a much, much harder time taking a direct command from a woman. It's somehow very difficult for people.

I don't have a favorite director just like I don't have a favorite color or I don't have a favorite food. I like everything.

There's a bunch of directors that I really admire, and Australian ones as well. It would be nice to do a film at home.

I have half a dozen designers who work for me, they 'realise' most of the design work, and I act as the design director and the main point of client contact on each project.

No English director would've cast me as an officer, I promise you. Not one.

If you're working with a director you trust, you can turn that part of you off that wants to direct other actors in a certain way.

I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can out of the text they're working with.

Television can become a bit of a treadmill for directors. You come in, nobody knows you, the actors are already doing what they're doing, and you're just one of a number of directors who comes in.

The first-time director thing is just another label somebody puts on you.

Some directors are very free and some directors are very specific. It seemed like doing a play.

There are directors who, their direction is high, but then when you challenge it, it crumbles. They can't back up what they're asking.

All these directors who do different locations forget that one room can be shot from a million different angles and a million different ways. When I direct a movie, I'm going to use that.

Any director will tell you, no matter how big his budget, that it's always the budget and the day count.

I was thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the writer from the artistic process. If we can just get rid of these actors and directors, maybe we got something here.

If you're not grown up enough to understand that a trailer is not done by the director, then fine. Judge the movie from the trailer.

But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director. Whether I'm French or Australian or whatever, it's really not important.

It's only human and natural that an actor should see the film in terms of his own part, but I, as a director, have to see the film as a whole. He must therefore collaborate selflessly, totally.

You see these actor/director relationships in the celebrity world and you understand why. The director knows which buttons to push and it makes it so much more familiarized.

If I really want to do something, I'll go in and do whatever the director feels that he needs me to do.

The main problem is that the Hollywood system has already made the film before the director shoots a single frame.

The director of the FBI...said we can't know for certain who these people are coming from Syria.

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

I wanted to just surround myself with people who I think are better than I am, whether they're actors or directors or producers, so that I could learn from them.

Acting doesn't exist in a vacuum. You need the director to have a set of eyes.

Directing is exhausting, but not for the actual directing part, when you say "Action!" and give creative notes. As a director, the exhausting part is that you are a professional answer-machine.

It's seldom that you get to work with one director more than once. I've worked with Clint Eastwood three times, but that's the only one that's happened with, simply because I adore his work.

That is a big turn-on for me, a director who knows what he's doing and what he wants, and knows when he's gotten what he wants.

I really do like working very closely with a director and developing characters.

There are a lot of female directors in Lebanon but we can't really talk about a true film industry, it's still very small. But we do have a few female directors.

I think film is a director's medium and the good filmmakers that I like tell the darker stories. Therefore, I'm always inclined to follow people like David Cronenberg.

Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project.