Directors Quotes

When I decided I wanted to be an actor, I said I wanted to work with quality actors and directors.

On Ernst Lubitsch: He could do more with a closed door than other directors could do with an open fly.

I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.

Honestly, I love television. I love the idea of going to work every day and getting to know your crew and having a rapport with your directors and having a family of cast.

Every director is completely different.

I think that Phil Kaufman is one of the best directors that I have come across.

I deal with guys in their 20s and early 30s who are presidents of companies, who are movie directors.

After Star Trek, I was with the top agencies, but producers and directors did not know what to do with me.

I'm very fortunate to have the privilege of working with directors like Bill Condon and Paul Thomas Anderson, who I think is one of the greatest filmmakers of our time.

In comics, the writer is also the director in a certain way. So if this were a film, you wouldn't tell the cinematographer to make a good fight scene while you go and get a cup of coffee.

You can't fake comedy - it's not like a movie, where a director can just cast a pretty face.

It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors.

Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.

Some people are directors and I think they should stay behind the camera.

The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.

I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on.

In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background

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.

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.

The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.

The Dead was cool, It's a great horror story. I went to the casting director of this movie and talked to him, then they called my agent and had me come in and read for it and they wanted to use me.

I'm all about working with directors that are doing different techniques and I think everyone has their way of getting it to the place that they think is best.

Granted, the writers, directors, producers, and that community make a great deal of money. But they might be choosing to do a whole lot of other things for the living they make.

Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women.

I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm.

I have great respect for directors who know what they're doing.

Twelve years on sets watching directors, I've taken a bit from everybody and rejected a lot.

Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those days, artists or directors or producers, as the case may be.

A director who gets $150,000 per year from a company and needs the money is not independent.

There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a pro.

In the '90s, indie movies could get financing, because financers gave money straight to directors... Now it's a different system. Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system.

I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors.

I had no plans to be a director.

I want to do literally everything. I think I was gifted... I inherited one of the best comedy visionaries as a director.

What you want, as an actor, is a great leader. I can't bear it when I work with a director who is wishy-washy and says, "What did you think?"

It's kind of interesting to be a director who is all of a sudden being an actor playing an agent. This is my whole world!

I've worked on shows where the lead actor doesn't know their lines, doesn't care, and it affects everybody - the crew, the director, the other actors. It's definitely a responsibility.

One thing I know is that I don't want to be a director for hire, making genre films.

You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience.

Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it.

I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.

The first thing I ask when Im offered a part is, Whos the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles.

Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.

Good is the director who lets you do what you have to do.

As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary.

I believe that every director's films reflect their lifestyle.

The performance is created by the director. The actor is the material. And I think that has to be true.

I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.

Every Story is different, Every Movie is different, Every Director is different.