Directors Quotes

After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled: “She can't talk! She can't act! She's sensational!”

The director is the only person on the set who has seen the film. Your job as a director is to show up every day and know where everything will fit into the film.

That's the greatest sin a director can commit; to make a film simply because he wants to make a film.

Every actor. every director, everybody needs an Oscar. You have to have that little statue in Hollywood or else you are nothing.

Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story.

There are a lot of directors who make big money and do big things and then move out of the 'hood

Paris is the playwright's delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor's city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.

I look at life as being cruise director on the Titanic. I may not get there, but I'm going first class.

I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.

Those who have themselves for a spiritual director have a fool for a spiritual director.

Every part I've done has been for one reason or another-money, or the part, or the director, or the location. I'd like to get one thing that's all of those combined.

We need more points of view from women and we need more support for female directors and writers in the industry.

As an actor, I look at scenes much differently than I would look at them as a director, and I never realized that until it actually happened.

One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.

A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.

A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.

My philosophy is that to be a director you cannot be subject to anyone, even the head of the studio. I threatened to quit each time I didn't get my way, but no one ever let me walk out.

I'm getting my respect as a video director. The fashion industry respects me and knows who I am.

I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a psychic medium.

I know that some actors and directors like to have intensity on set. I don't, particularly. Certainly, if they want that, that's fine, but I can't work like that.

I am the best film director in the world.

I've always had the utmost respect and awe of what the lens can do and what a director can do with just a camera move.

I was six years old when I saw my first Godard movie, eight when I first experienced Bergman. I wanted to be a director when I was fourteen.

I think directors should at least take acting lessons to see what's going on. And I think all actors should direct to see what a director has to go through.

As a director, or just a film fan who wants to enjoy the festival, Cannes is the worst place to be. But it must be a paradise for distributors and importers.

My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.

Personally Im very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors.

One final thing a director needs: The ability to say 'I am wrong' or 'I was wrong.' Not as easy as it sounds. But in many situations, these 3 words, honestly spoken, will save the day.

I have many valentines. My mom and my sister and my directors. I got calls from all of them. And my friends. I respect what Valentine's Day stands for because it is about love

I guess you could say I'm like a film director but my movies have only one frame.

I never storyboard. I hate it. I don't understand why so many directors want to make comic strips of their films.

Every film had its own grammar. And it's your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a story.

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films

Each picture has some sort of rhythm which only the director can give it. He has to be like the captain of a ship.

I randomly went to a casting session in my hometown in North Carolina, and the casting director introduced me to my manager. I really lucked into it!

I love having a master. I have no problem serving my director. That's my job. I want to make them happy.

Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired?

People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film.

Lyrical lecture, word architecture, Rap director, the best in my sector. Microphone cool chief, releasin the smooth speech... I get nasty with a pen and some loose leaf.

The director is the channel through which a motion picture reaches the screen.

When you're really working well with a director then you can be as outrageous as you like and so can he. And there's no worry about it.

To the audience it doesn't really matter how much the director struggled with an actor. It's the result that counts.

For me, being a director is about watching, not about telling people what to do. Or maybe it's like being a mirror; if they didn't have me to look at, they wouldn't be able to put the make-up on.

The theater audience is the ultimate teacher, instructing the actor on the degree to which he has executed both the author's and the director's intent.

Shaping it is something I would expect to do together with a writer, because that's a director's job.

In cinema, the leading player is the director.

When you're a lead role, I'm learning that you set a tone for the movie in a way, like a director does, or like other actors do. But it seems like you set a mood on set.

As a director you want to have actors, not only surpassing themselves, but also going somewhere, going different places.

There are definitely reasons to do certain things, but I like to stick to good director, good actor, good script.