Directors Quotes

I'm not interested in being a celebrity; I'm interested in being a better actor and a better director.

Time management is a big part of the director's job.

I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has.

I'm first and foremost interested in the story, the characters.

Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance.

We haven't done enough work to encourage minorities to strive to make movies. Hollywood is a place full of white male directors - there are many good ones. We just haven't nurtured our voices.

I made a conscious effort that I just wanted to work with people that were going to make me better and that was the main thing - writers, directors, in whatever medium.

Some things you know about, you know what the ingredients are - maybe not all of them. But it's up to you to put in the amount. It's up to the director to nag you until you get it right.

We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.

You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script.

Now, I have big-money offers on three movies, and I have director approval. That's kind of scary,' he says. 'No directors have been attached. That's a lot of pressure on me

I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.

In a collaborative environment directors hire actors because they want their input, not just their bodies.

Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine.

On working with director Werner Herzog: I have to shoot without any breaks. I yell at Herzog and hit him. I have to fight for every sequence. I wish Herzog would catch the plague.

And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy a director of category B, not a big director.

Above all, a director has to be a good captain.

I'm one of the few directors that actually shoots a lot in camera.

If there's any relevant influence we may have with an investor, with a studio, with a director, with an actor, I think we have to fight.

I'd love to direct a film, but I don't think I have the temperament for it. I'm very hyper, and I want things to be done ASAP. If I turn director, I might end up killing my actors.

When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present.

Directors are not worried about casting beautiful women, but they are not sure that they want to cast great-looking men. My looks have prevented people from seeing my work objectively.

A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.

There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.

Obviously, if a director doesn't communicative a clear, relevant vision of the material, it will not succeed no matter how good the material.

Whenever I'm offered something, I always read the script and meet the director. I still appreciate just being considered.

I didn't just see myself as a film director here [in Life And Nothing More], but also as an observer of people who had been condemned to death.

Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.

That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.

My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.

What makes people and companies and artistic directors and choreographers interested in working with dancers is the ability to kind of let go of everything you think you know and be a blank canvas.

As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.

I always found something strangely paternal about the director-actor relationship. Actors want so much approval.

If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art.

The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.

Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach.

On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre.

I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.

How can you have a director that doesn't go to work with the crew every day and talk to them?

It was difficult every ten days having a new director. I'm a real collaborator and, as an actor, I want to be directed. It's hard for me to shift gears.

I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film.

One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.

The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it.

Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.

And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made.

It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.

The movie "Ed Wood," about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for "Stargate."

The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was told I was an actor

I would love to have a part opposite a great actor - like, say, Pacino or De Niro or Hoffman. And to work with a top director. That's my dream.

Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.