Directors Quotes

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.

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

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.

Two-thirds of the directors at the New York Fed are hand-picked by the same bankers that the Fed is in charge of regulating.

I will work with a director who has good material because at the end of the day, that's what counts.

I had a choice. I could become an economist & managing director. I choose to do something else. I would have become much, much richer than I am. I choose to not do that. It's that simple.

I kind of end up getting caught up in whatever the rhythm of the movie is and how open the director is to changing things in the moment or finding it in rehearsal.

When you are completely satisfied with what you have made, you're pretty much done as a director. So when that happens, that'll sort of be the end.

I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.

I guarantee you that two directors that are any good can take the same story, change the name of the characters, change the name of the town, and make an entirely different picture.

If someone were to hire me for a film they'd be getting a certain kind of package, that's for sure, a certain set of tools. But I would listen to the director.

A musical is only as good as its director. The same can also be said for the CIA.

I don't need to work right away. I'd rather wait for something really good; to be excited about a role, or a director, or a project.

Directors are never in short supply of girlfriends.

Everything is entertainment; criticism is now entertainment and it seems that the French directors have woken up one day and suddenly realised that they were not backed up any more.

If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.

I believe that the officers, and, especially, the directors, of corporations should be held personally responsible when any corporation breaks the law.

Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids to direct me.

Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal.

I think the financial restraint really pushes me as a director to be more creative with the way I shoot the film.

I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.

When I was starting as an anime director I wanted to be known for great things. I never wanted to be known for some overblown toy commercial.

Hollywood needs more women directors, and Mama Ava needs a carafe and a half of that sweet vino divino.

I think a good director casts a film so that the actors bring a lot to the table.

Of all the projects I've worked on, I've never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he's a genius.

If you're creative, they let you be the showrunner, producer. The first thing my partner and I did as producers was hire ourselves as directors - because who else would hire me?

I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid.

Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.

Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream.

If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing.

There are times when directors just don't know what they're doing.

The greatest directors are the greatest users. They use people's talents to tell the story that they want to tell.

Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything.

You mustn't look at a film with only one point of view.

I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.

I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.

It's a roll of the dice when you're a first time director so I prefer to work with people that know more than I do, but that happens less and less as you get older.

I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.

Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.

I came across awful characters when I got some kind of status and came to Hollywood. Then you have directors trying to sleep with you, assuming that you will do things because of the way you dress.

The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet.

The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting

I try to just make what I want to make or what I would want to see. I try not to think about the audience too much.

Good directors can bring certain things out of you, with their intensity or gentleness or sensitivity or understanding. They can make an actor feel he can do no wrong.

'Ides of March' I did for scale - scale as a director, scale as an actor, scale as a writer.

Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you're working with an actor who's just unbearable.

When I work, I work very hard. So I look to work with people who have that level of dedication. And I depend on that from everyone. From the director to my crews that I work with.

There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.

My distinguishing talent is the ability to put people under the microscope, perhaps to go one or two layers farther down than some other directors.

My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.