Directors Quotes

I like working with a first time director. I'm more likely to work with a first time director than I am a second time director.

The relationship between an actress and her director is often a very close one.

I started as a director, but I was too bored with actors. I preferred to act.

Force Majeure is a jolt. You won't know what hit you. Director Ostlund shifts gears from humor to psychological thriller with cunning skill.

The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.

My father was a television director and I always knew I wanted to be in the industry but I had thought my role was behind the camera as opposed to in front.

Making movies can be a creative exciting project for director and rest of staff.

Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.

I think that too often we, film directors, think that a big epic novel and feature film are the same. It's a lie. A feature film is much closer to a short story actually.

I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff.

I was not born a size 2. I'm not skinny, period. I'm not willing to sleep with the director or step on somebody else's neck to get the job.

Critics don't want to see directors they like make too much of a left turn. That's good for criticism.

I get to meet different directors and different people.

The directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity of the medium and are interested in catching lightning in a bottle.

To learn bad dialogue is so difficult and so boring, and to work with a stupid director who tells you to do the wrong thing, etcetera, it's just unbearable.

If you're a casting director, you're going to be curious to see what Timothy Spall's son is like. But when you get in the door, you have to have something to offer.

My biggest advice for women writer/directors is to always be attempting to make work that avoids pandering to the conceptions that the industry has put in place for "women directors."

Fifty-percent of the director's job honestly is casting the movie well.

As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.

Sometimes, the actors are thrilled to have visitors because they're just waiting most of the day. It's the directors that are a little busy.

There is a magic thing called 'tone' in a film, that the director must master and maintain.

At best, I think of a director as a magnet. You get all the metal fillings in all the individual actors and crew, and get those filings moving toward your magnetic direction.

Movie making is really, it's a director's medium, it's not even so much an actor's medium.

I love it when the director says, 'Rebel, just do whatever you want.' I'm, like, 'Yes!

[Donald Trump] has confidence in Director [James] Comey. We have had a great relationship with him over the last several weeks. He's extremely competent.

Ensure that your script is watertight. If it's not on the page, it will never magically appear on the screen.

When I came to England, the first director I met was Charles Sturridge, who told me, 'You speak like somebody out of the 1950s.

Things come out of nowhere, and you start evaluating the director, the cast, and all those other things going into it.

(Sometimes when) someone's directing for the first time, they're afraid to include everyone - they have to prove they're the director.

[on editing of the films] There is always a question of time, and the director. I've worked with a lot of directors who don't mind my involvement. They appreciated it.

Supremely, spiritual directors/mentors/pastors are persons who have a sense of being established in God. Otherwise they are too dangerous to be allowed into the soul space of others.

I'm very interested in directing actors - many directors direct cameras.

I see myself much more as a writer/director or at least an aspiring writer/director - not necessarily in film.

I never think of myself as a celebrity - or even an actor, actually. I think of myself as a writer-director.

I'm pretty fortunate that I'm in the films I'm in largely because the directors have asked me to be in them. I'd love to do more of them, but the writing and historical stuff I'll probably always do.

I love being on set, because I've basically grown up on a set. And now I love to contribute as a director and help steer the ship, if you will.

No two directors make the same film the same way.

As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does.

You will never see'Altman's Great Film of the Seventies: The Director's Cut' because you have never seen a film of mine that wasn't the director's cut. I have never permitted it.

The thing I loved the most about being art director was picking the photographers and working with them.

Every time I feel that I really hit critical mass and I'm in the right place is when I feel like the director and I become a third thing, and that's the character.

Sometimes directors will hire you and say, 'Oh, we love your work.' And then they start to tell you how to do it. I say, 'Hey, man, back off. You hired me to do it. Let me do it.'

John Huston is more of a creative director than most.

My memorization skills aren't that great so I need help in that area. As far as everything else, I listen to the director. I'm someone who doesn't argue. I hit my marks and say the lines.

It's hard to be reverent today when directors make films that are not as good. There will be time later, though, when their lesser films are forgotten and just focus on the greatness.

Your ideas dry up sometimes, and you get lazy sometimes 'cause you're around the same people. That was the good thing about having different directors. You had to stay on your toes.

You can make five massive hits in a row and still not get cast by the directors who you want to work with doing little movies.

As a director, I wouldn't like me as an actor. As an actor, I wouldn't like me as a director.

I miss the comraderie of live television - the fact that you were on the set, you worked closely with the director and the cast, that I miss. But, no, I'm happy, I'm happy doing film.

Over the long haul I'd say that most directors I've worked with have been pretty sensitive to the quality of the interpreted scenes.