Directors Quotes

The contemporary Japanese directors who are well-known in the West - say, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takeshi Kitano, Naomi Kawase - are mostly unknown to Japanese, particularly of the younger generation.

I think every director has a different take, some are good, some are bad. The directors you get on best with sometimes don't make the best films, so who's to say who is right?

Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

I don't think many actors are the best judge of careers. I think generally we have good instincts about what we can do in terms of acting. And often they become directors, which I don't want to be.

A lot of young directors, they're not confident; they're not open to the emotional level of the scene.

Id love to see more women working as directors and producers.

It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.

I owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me.

With the most interesting directors, the cast comes together to make something magical that nobody counted on.

If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.

When I came out here, my manager thought that casting directors might think I'm a girl, and when I did Threat Matrix, they thought Jamie was a little light.

You dream as an actor's director of letting moments breathe through two-shots.

Gotta watch out for directors.

I'm an actor because I love movies, and always have loved movies. I'm a film buff. So, getting to work with those kinds of directors and getting to tell those stories is what I want to do.

I like working as a director most.

I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.

I'm not one of these directors, so far, that wants to have a whole separate director's cut of these things. So far they've turned out to be kind of the length that they wanted to be.

And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration.

The red directors were one of the main political forces. Another force was the former Soviet ministers who lost everything because of the transformation of the Soviet Union to Russia.

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.

To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.

Most actors go, I read the script and fell in love with it; I fall in love with the directors.

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.

So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.

I don't like directors that just say, Stand there and now do this.

I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.

The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra.

The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized.

Directors, like actors, get typecast.

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.

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.

All of the directors I've worked with I have loved and would work with again. I have no favorites.

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

In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression.

Being a producer, I deal with a lot of different directors, and some of them would drive me insane with all the different histrionics, and the mystique that they carry.

A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.

Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him.