Directors Quotes

It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.

I love Sam Mendes. He's a fantastic director.

I think Paul Weitz is a really amazing director, obviously with tons of acclaim and stuff, but I still think he is underrated. And I think he's amazing to work with, so I was super lucky.

Your director is your everything and you devote yourself to them and you want to help create their vision.

I think the press is doing a wonderful job of putting the pressure on the decision-makers in Hollywood to support more female directors.

As a director you have to - you don't have the option of saying, "I'm not watching this."

I'd say I got three or four offers for films that had female directors, so in my career I haven't had that opportunity before. That's exciting.

I think Jesse [Zwick] is part of a new generation of director, because we'd be kidding ourselves if we did not acknowledge that there is this unsaid rule that the hero looks a certain way.

It is so great to go to a casting director and have them wanting to talk about the show that you are in. It's such a great icebreaker. It just makes the environment so much more relaxed.

I've always noticed a difference between working with a director and working with a writer/director. In how much they're invested and how specific they are.

You don’t want to ask after the health of anyone, if you’re a funeral director. They think maybe you’re scouting for business.

In Dreams...well, I was slightly overcompensating with that. I was a bit like a director for hire, so maybe I was putting too much imagery that was familiar to me into it.

For film, I audition just like everyone else, because it's a different set of casting directors.

I don't believe in director's cuts and I also don't really believe in deleted scenes because the movie that is in theaters, that's what the director made.

I'm working on a project called Lemons, produced by Killer Films. The director has a great perspective on character development.

I started off as a director, so when I see other actors directing, it gives me hope that maybe they'll put me into that position at some point, too.

I generally don't involve myself in giving the actors some tips on acting. At the same time, I don't do that with the director.

I fall in love with every film while I'm doing it. I fall in love with the directors, I fall in love with the process. I don't think I could do it otherwise.

My scripts are always heavily noted. If I can take a director to one side and say, "Do you mind if we try this?," a few days before, that's usually a better way of doing it then on the day.

It's not often that you get a director, singing the praises of his executives.

Once there are more African Americans and Asian Americans behind the scenes as producers, writers, and directors, I think more inclusive casting will happen.

I love Malcolm Lee and jumped on the opportunity to work with him as a director.

I like bold directors. I like directors that go against the norm in a way.

Women are making strides in many areas and women have mentored and supported me along the way. I think that women are underrepresented behind the camera as directors.

It was very important to me to choose a director like Gary [Ross], whose instincts come from character, who's a storyteller, and who puts characters first.

Deb Zane, our casting director on the Hunger Games was very sanguine, from the beginning, about just blocking out what everybody else says that they want.

I watch movies all the time, so it's hard to pick certain specific directors that have inspired me in the aggregate.

I was offered and accepted a part in 'A Few Best Men,' and then the Australian actor's union argued that there were too many British actors. And the director decided to lose me.

I was rejected by casting directors during the day. I attended class in the evening, then rode 90 miles on the train home.

Bud [Yorkin] was the kindest and dearest man, and one of the most talented directors there was.

You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.

Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you're out of view.

I think Jesse Eisenberg is such a great writer. He was a great director and really tough.

If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.

I think TV is much more the writer's medium and film is about the director and their vision and how you can collaborate with them and see that through to the end. They are so different

I stayed in Hamburg a few more days, and during that time I received a visit from Rolf Aldag, the sporting director at T-Mobile. He advised me to tell the truth.

The film [Dream of Life] is the way it is because it was the rhythm of my life, and also because the director and the editor are both gifted and both fine human beings.

I wanted to know as the director how the actors wanted to tell this story I wanted to know what they thought.

As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how to just do things and work with good people.

Every director should take an acting class.

I think that I just need to work with great directors and actors, people who are better than me, so that I am challenged.

Is there something in druggy subjects that encourages directors to make imitation film noir? Film noir itself becomes an addiction.

I miss working with great actors, working with great directors.

Most directors prefer to direct everything themselves. I thought I could on Lord Of The Rings, but very quickly found out that the sheer scale prevented it.

When you're not gaping at Megan Fox enough to listen to what the director's saying, you can get some work done.

Steve Zaillian is just the sweetest. A very, very wonderful and interesting director.

Richard Marquand, on Jedi, was very much an actor's director.

A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.

In the acting game, you spend a long time fighting against what the director perceives you to be. And half the time the directors don't know.

To me, one of the main things that a director does is create the tone of his movie.