Directors Quotes

I rely on my directors, a lot. I love being directed.

The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.

I love rehearsing, but a lot of directors don't, and some actors don't.

There are many, many different kinds of movies and directors and styles. I don't mind that a movie looks like a movie.

A good [film] director is talented, imaginative, and does his homework.

Sometimes the shots serve as homages to other movies and other directors, like Hitchcock.

As an actor, Sean [Penn] is brilliant. And he's really an excellent director, as well. We got along really well.

Unfortunately, in Hollywood, there are those directors that have some contempt for actors. We've all experienced that, in one way or another.

I've imparted that philosophy to the writers, but some of them look stuff up while some don't. Same with the editors, directors and actors. To each their own.

I did direct two short movies. I learned many things, and one of the things I learned was that I am not a director. It has to be visceral, and it's not for me. I feel much more comfortable acting.

It's always interesting to see a director trying different things, and on top of it, doing it right each and almost every time.

Lloyd Richards is another director who was like that, who was a teacher.

There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment.

Mike [Mitchell] brought me on as co-director, and eventually we ended up sharing a brain. It was overwhelming initially when I was working with departments I hadn't had contact with before.

Usually when you meet with a director, just meeting them after you've seen something you're interested in, they say, "Oh I'd love to work together," and sometimes you never hear from them again.

That's a frustration sometimes, that certain directors that I'd like to work with, they just aren't doing stories that I'm sort of castable in. Not always, but sometimes I have that frustration.

It's fair to say that if you have a lot of experience, your power is greater. You have more of an opportunity to roll up your sleeves with younger directors.

I aspire to be an instrument of the director. I'm happiest like that. The stronger the director, the more I'm willing to give them.

The director's very important to me, particularly when the director has a recognizable style.

It's hard on an actor when you have to do a scene 45 times and you know damn well that three of the angles a director is shooting will never make it into the movie.

I love directors who talk action as opposed to emotion.

I've written a lot of scripts that someone else directed, and it's absolutely vital that, if I'm gonna act in it, then I have to take off the writer hat and let the director direct.

I feel like a lot of the young actors that are just coming up are really good. I think directors are directing better.

With an inexperienced director, a lot of times the days go on to 14, 15, 16 hours. It goes horrendously overtime. And because of the lack of money, they just keep you there, regardless of the hours.

A good actor's director, first of all, is prepared, so there's not an exorbitant amount of wasted footage.

A good director is very well prepared, and knows exactly how he's going to cut the film, so the shooting is as efficient as possible.

Ultimately, a more experienced director realizes that you've got to stop sometime and just move on. They're braver about that.

I'd been working so hard making the film that I hadn't even emotionally processed the fact that I was a director.

The thing about movies is if somebody has an idea that works, it's in, and I say that as a screenwriter as well as a director.

If you see, as I do, in edited film, you're going to end up as a director.

As a director, you're given a tremendous apparatus to work with, and very great talents are available to you.

You evolve in the ways in which you are precious. When you are the director, you are also continuing to write on the floor as you go along.

Saying directors don't write because they don't type is very wrong, it's like saying Dylan doesn't write music because he doesn't write notation.

I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious.

I love westerns. John Ford is one of the 10 best directors.

I'm always being told by directors that I add chemistry to scenes, so I mean how difficult could it be?

I want to be working with directors who are at the top of their game. I want to be raising the bar for myself, and to me, the best way to do that is to prove to them that I'm the best for this job.

It just so happened that J.C.[Chandor] was a first-time feature director, and his script was exactly the kind of thing we were looking for.

One thing that is true in TV is that you do hire the directors. As the writer, it's very different than in features, where you feel like, "If I want this to be this way, I better direct it."

I'm pretty sure a lot of directors would be thrilled to cast age appropriate roles. I am.

I think, a lot of times, directors assume that whatever they get from you the first time, whether it be at an audition or on set, is all that you can bring.

I've definitely gotten to work with female directors, and I feel lucky because of that. I just feel like more voices should be represented.

That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors.

I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it.

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