Quotes about Director

I'm a real director. Votes: 4

Mankiewicz was a brilliant director. Votes: 4

Jane Campion is a tough director. Votes: 4

Larry Kasdan is a great director. Votes: 4

Jose Padilha is a wonderful director. Votes: 4

I am a very impatient director. Votes: 4

I never wanted to be a director. Votes: 4

I like working as a director most. Votes: 4

I'm a believer in trusting the director. Votes: 4

I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director. Votes: 4

Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course. Votes: 4

As an action director, I always try to bring something fresh and new. Votes: 4

The director's very important to me, particularly when the director has a recognizable style. Votes: 4

When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director. Votes: 4

My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer and my mom's a director and writer. Votes: 4

And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy a director of category B, not a big director. Votes: 4

The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film. Votes: 4

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. Votes: 4

The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood. Votes: 4

Yes, they allowed us to play around a lot because, like we said, the director's such a good comedy director. Votes: 4

Every director works differently. Votes: 3

I'm very director oriented. Votes: 3

Every director is completely different. Votes: 3

Chris Nolan is an amazing director. Votes: 3

Snoop Scorsese, that's my director name. Votes: 3

Adrian Lyne is such an incredible director. Votes: 3

I view filmmaking as a director's medium. Votes: 3

Every director should take an acting class. Votes: 3

I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor. Votes: 3

Ultimately in the end, it's the director's choice Votes: 3

In cinema, the leading player is the director. Votes: 3

I think every director has a different methodology. Votes: 3

I love Sam Mendes. He's a fantastic director. Votes: 3

I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director. Votes: 3

I'm not an easygoing guy as a director. Votes: 3

Every casting director I've met is a woman. Votes: 3

Sirk was every womans dream of a director. Votes: 3

(When asked what a director does) I help. Votes: 3

I had no plans to be a director. Votes: 3

The best director is the one you don't see. Votes: 3

The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized. Votes: 3

Every director is so different from every other one. Votes: 3

Being a writer-director can sometimes make you incredibly blinkered. Votes: 3

A director is a choreographer, both politically and creatively. Votes: 3

Just being hired by a great director is complimentary. Votes: 3

I'd never worked with an actor-director before [Warren Beatty]. Votes: 3

I believe that every director's films reflect their lifestyle. Votes: 3

Become the director, producer, choreographer of your own story Votes: 3

I'm an actress who likes a strong, communicative director. Votes: 3

Every director is themselves; [they're] not playing a part. Votes: 3

My kind of director is an actor-director who writes. Votes: 3

I don't have a director. The audience directs me. Votes: 3

I depend on good editors and a good director. Votes: 3

I think a good director is a good listener. Votes: 3

Ever director has at least 10 bad films in them. Votes: 3

I love when a director says, "I don't know." Votes: 3

I am the best film director in the world. Votes: 3

You either are a good director or you're not. Votes: 3

As a director, you try to find what is creative. Votes: 3

My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. Votes: 3

I see what's behind everything the director wants to do. Votes: 3

Above all, a director has to be a good captain. Votes: 3

My husband's a director, so he understands what I do. Votes: 3

Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg. Votes: 3

I think of myself as a meat-and-potatoes kind of director. Votes: 3

Matching character and actor is what a good director does. Votes: 3

Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director. Votes: 3

You are the executive director and screenwriter of your life. Votes: 3

Richard Marquand, on Jedi, was very much an actor's director. Votes: 3

Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too. Votes: 3

Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director. Votes: 3

The best films are because of nobody but the director. Votes: 3

When you're the director, you kinda do all the work. Votes: 3

Time management is a big part of the director's job. Votes: 3

John Huston is more of a creative director than most. Votes: 3

You don't even need the director's judgement. It's too much. Votes: 3

The only entry level position on a movie is director. Votes: 3

As a director he was not that interested in Vader. Votes: 3

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination. Votes: 3

I love Ben Affleck so much. He's an amazing director. Votes: 3

To be a director, you have to be especially patient. Votes: 3

I started as a director and just fell upon acting. Votes: 3

Fifty-percent of the director's job honestly is casting the movie well. Votes: 3

Stallone is a pretty tough director. You don't mess with him. Votes: 3

I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director. Votes: 3

A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents. Votes: 3

No athletic director holds office longer than two losing football coaches. Votes: 3

For a director, the most challenging scenes are the dialogue scenes. Votes: 3

The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet. Votes: 3

I'm becoming a frustrated director, I think, in an actor's body. Votes: 3

I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director. Votes: 3

A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself. Votes: 3

A good [film] director is talented, imaginative, and does his homework. Votes: 3

A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders. Votes: 3

I think drug movies free the director to make intense films. Votes: 3

I don't really need a lot of help from a director. Votes: 3

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling. Votes: 3

I don't even know if I can call myself a director. Votes: 3

I'm a control freak, so that's why I became a director. Votes: 3

I would love to work with Shane Meadows - great director. Votes: 3

It does make you a better director and a better actor. Votes: 3

I'm happiest when I can just be a director and watch. Votes: 3

When I grow up, I still want to be a director. Votes: 3

As a director, I never feel that I have the answers. Votes: 3

A director should cast a person who fits into their script. Votes: 3

When I feel like being a director, I write a novel. Votes: 3

As a director who loves the camera you learn a lot. Votes: 3

Mark Ruffalo is just an amazing guy and an amazing director. Votes: 3

A film is the director's medium. The theater is an actor's. Votes: 3

I think drug movies free the director to make intense films Votes: 3

I owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me. Votes: 3

I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too. Votes: 3

The first-time director thing is just another label somebody puts on you. Votes: 3

I'm not a Hollywood director. I'm an in spite of Hollywood director. Votes: 3

Every story is different, every movie is different, every director is different. Votes: 3

The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate. Votes: 3

As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate. Votes: 3

Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something. Votes: 3

As a director, you can transform your vision more with the music. Votes: 3

I've always said that movies are a direct mirror of the director. Votes: 3

Most of the films are only 60% taken, rest is a director's input. Votes: 3

You can't always expect to work with a director who guarantees success. Votes: 3

I've tried to stay out of the frame more as a director. Votes: 3

The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director. Votes: 3

You dream as an actor's director of letting moments breathe through two-shots. Votes: 3

If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter. Votes: 3

I'm not really a guy who wants to be a director, anyway. Votes: 3

For me, there was never an end game for becoming a director. Votes: 3

I'm always very interested in going and discovering a young director's films. Votes: 3

A script is only as good as the director who's making it. Votes: 3

I've learned a lot from Clint [Eastwood], who's an extremely economical director. Votes: 3

Some call me director, producer, filmmaker. I prefer to call myself pube-king. Votes: 3

I do my best to hold the director's opinion above my own. Votes: 3

I always wanted to direct. I always saw myself as a director. Votes: 3

When a director makes a mistake, people suffer. People suffer horribly sometimes. Votes: 3

When I do any stand-up, you're the writer, director, and producer. You're alone. Votes: 3

I really do like working very closely with a director and developing characters. Votes: 3

Working with a great director is like getting a master class in acting. Votes: 3

The director is the channel through which a motion picture reaches the screen. Votes: 3

Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility. Votes: 3

John Parsons, the gay art director at 'Vogue,' really started my career. Votes: 3

Lloyd Richards is another director who was like that, who was a teacher. Votes: 3

The attitude of the director is really important, in terms of setting tone. Votes: 3

Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director. Votes: 3

I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work. Votes: 3

The relationship between a director and an editor in documentaries is so important. Votes: 3

The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.... Votes: 3

In some way, the relationship between a director and an actor is personal. Votes: 3

I would like, in the long term, to be recognized as a writer-director-actor. Votes: 3

I never turned down anything and never argued with any producer or director. Votes: 3

I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director. Votes: 3

I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out. Votes: 3

That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people. Votes: 3

For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa. Votes: 3

The longer I've been a director, the less I have to 'direct.' Votes: 3

When you work with a great director, you can have a great partnership. Votes: 3

Good is the director who lets you do what you have to do. Votes: 3

The first must that any director has is to not force his public. Votes: 3

You never want to be the director who dropped the ball, you know? Votes: 3

The director is the only person who knows what the film is about. Votes: 3

As a director, if you know what you want, then it's not scary. Votes: 3

Somebody who likes to do my plays is a good director for them. Votes: 3

I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor. Votes: 3

Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director. Votes: 3

I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me. Votes: 3

A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should. Votes: 3

I always say that I'm not the director, I'm part of the team. Votes: 3

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process. Votes: 3

I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story. Votes: 3

Steve Zaillian is just the sweetest. A very, very wonderful and interesting director. Votes: 3

If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer. Votes: 3

All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone. Votes: 3

Why would people have confidence in a female director when there are so few? Votes: 3

A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a director an army. Votes: 3

If you are a writer/director, the [movie] characters are a part of yourself. Votes: 3

I'm an enormous fan of Ron Howard. I mean, he's the most extraordinary director. Votes: 3

The relationship between an actress and her director is often a very close one. Votes: 3

It's not often that you get a director, singing the praises of his executives. Votes: 3

Ser director de cine en España es como ser torero en Japón Votes: 3

If you have a screaming angry director, everyone else will be panicked as well. Votes: 3

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director. Votes: 3

Making movies can be a creative exciting project for director and rest of staff. Votes: 3

Milos Forman is a great director, Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director. Votes: 3

Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher. Votes: 3

Ser director de cine en España es como ser torero en Japón. Votes: 3

When you trust your director completely, then you can relax, be spontaneous, be malleable. Votes: 3

When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer. Votes: 3

Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel. Votes: 3

I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director. Votes: 3

Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing. Votes: 3

Working with [Robert] De Niro taught me a lot about being an actor's director. Votes: 3

I don't really consider myself a horror director or a violent director at all. Votes: 3

I don't want to be a director. I want to direct. There's a difference. Votes: 3

I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair. Votes: 3

When Chris Nolan is your director you are like, "I trust that, I'm wrong." Votes: 3

But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director. Votes: 3

Do you know what I'm working on now? My first feature as a director. Votes: 3

A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do. Votes: 3

A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly. Votes: 3

All the director wants is their idea of the movie to be believed in. Votes: 3

I don't think it's a director's job to peek behind the curtain too much. Votes: 3

As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers. Votes: 3

The kindest thing a director can do is look with open eyes at everything. Votes: 3

As a director you come in and tell the actors how good they are. Votes: 3

In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression. Votes: 3

A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator. Votes: 3

What you feel is important may not be what the director feels is important. Votes: 3

Most actors are insecure enough already without having a director who adds to that. Votes: 3

No English director would've cast me as an officer, I promise you. Not one. Votes: 3

You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life. Votes: 3

As an actor, you're always nervous as to what a director will do with something. Votes: 3

One of the wonderful things about being an actor is that every director is different. Votes: 3

A male director doesn't come to situations the same way that a female director would. Votes: 3

You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life. Votes: 3

Those who have themselves for a spiritual director have a fool for a spiritual director. Votes: 3

I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life. Votes: 3

I'll tell you one thing. I've never heard a director saying that the dailies suck. Votes: 3

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard. Votes: 3

I don't need a director who's 'good with actors.'...A master manipulator is heaven. Votes: 3

My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director. Votes: 3

I don't want to be a director, or to have responsibility for hundreds of people. Votes: 3

I really love the experience of moving things around, in terms of being a director. Votes: 3

You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings. Votes: 3

Short films really helped me develop as a story teller, animator, and as a director. Votes: 3

I wasn't trained as a writer-director. And the projects I write are difficult to finish. Votes: 3

The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself. Votes: 3

I started my career as an actor, but I've been a director for 15 years now. Votes: 3

When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present. Votes: 3

If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie. Votes: 3

When I on set as a director I crazy. My temper is not that good. Votes: 3

As soon as an actor has faith in a director, he just goes with it. Votes: 3

The truth is, a director wins an Oscar for a writer's script and actors' performances. Votes: 3

You can only have one voice on set, and that has to be the director. Votes: 3

Jim Brooks is a very powerful director and it was a lot of intense work Votes: 3

I always thought it would be very funny if I was a blind film director. Votes: 3

Jim Brooks is a very powerful director and it was a lot of intense work. Votes: 3

Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director. Votes: 3

The first thing I put down on paper is a storyboard, like a film director. Votes: 3

You talk about what a director, he was smart. He said, Turn the camera on! Votes: 3

I love all the movies by director John Hughes. I also love John Landis's movies. Votes: 3

I was called the greatest director in Europe, but I was just a hard worker. Votes: 3

It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached. Votes: 3

I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller. Votes: 3

When you're a director you always feel weird with another director watching over your shoulder. Votes: 3

I liked 'Robocop' because of the director, and it was an intelligent, big-action studio movie. Votes: 3

Sometimes things are nothing on paper, but a genius director turns it into something amazing. Votes: 3

Classics stay alive because a great actor or a great director wants to do them. Votes: 3

I don't think you can be a director without a kind of sense of competitiveness. Votes: 3

As an actor, youre always nervous as to what a director will do with something. Votes: 3

Let the child be the scriptwriter, the director and the actor in his own play. Votes: 3

As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic. Votes: 3

To be a good director, you have to have good life experience. I'm getting there. Votes: 3

Peter Jackson is a wonderful man. He's a great director. He's found his niche in life. Votes: 3

When I make films, I work with Mike Leigh, who's the most prolific director in England. Votes: 3

Picking projects, it's always director first and then script. Those two things are pretty much head-to-head. Votes: 3

[YSL creative director] Hedi [Slimane] is a music-obsessed guy. I might've originally met him through Sky. Votes: 3

I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process. Votes: 3

It's fun to do something funny and have the director laughing. It makes you feel good. Votes: 3

I think the mark of a good director is that they surround themselves with good people. Votes: 3

I have been an art director, a book designer, a book-jacket designer and an interior designer. Votes: 3

If everyone's comfortable, you can pretty much make any kind of movie that the director wants. Votes: 3

I've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director. Votes: 3

If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director. Votes: 3

I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two. Votes: 3

Any great director is also someone who is incredibly intelligent about whom they hire around them. Votes: 3

I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium. Votes: 3

Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you're out of view. Votes: 3

A director who gets $150,000 per year from a company and needs the money is not independent. Votes: 3

Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore. Votes: 3

Alexander Gonzalez Inarritu is a great director. He's the one I first worked with. He's amazing. Votes: 3

When you're a producer or director, there's so much sweat that goes into any given project. Votes: 3

Farmiga proves as fearless a director as she is an actress. She lights up Higher Ground. Votes: 3

I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie. Votes: 3

You need these experiences. Just know that sometimes, the director has a specific look in mind. Votes: 3

I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm. Votes: 3

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on. Votes: 3

Movie making is really, it's a director's medium, it's not even so much an actor's medium. Votes: 3

For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident. Votes: 3

As a director, I get to have a much broader creative expression than as an actress. Votes: 3

I always choose my movie because of a director and a story and a, a character. Votes: 3

The work of the director is the work of constructing the shot list from the script. Votes: 3

I started as a director, but I was too bored with actors. I preferred to act. Votes: 3

The job of the director is to suggest two plus two. Let the viewer say four. Votes: 3

I've always said I would want to be a funeral director if I wasn't an actor. Votes: 3

It was great to watch Orson Welles, not only as an actor but as a director. Votes: 3

A lecturer once told me I could never be a director. I was 16. I believed him. Votes: 3

Acting doesn't exist in a vacuum. You need the director to have a set of eyes. Votes: 3

The duty of a film director is to focus more on the soul of the spectator. Votes: 3

I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema. Votes: 3

I think I have more of a director's brain than an actor's brain, in a way. Votes: 3

I love Malcolm Lee and jumped on the opportunity to work with him as a director. Votes: 3

A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do. Votes: 3

An actor is just a part of a movie, but director - he is the movie. Votes: 3

A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people. Votes: 3

I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director. Votes: 3

I think it's very boring for a director to always do the same kind of movies. Votes: 3

I think it's important that a director be able to know his characters inside and out. Votes: 3

Everything is the director's fault - you can quote me on that. There are no excuses. Votes: 3

I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone. Votes: 3

No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit Votes: 3

Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones. Votes: 3

I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point. Votes: 3

The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How. Votes: 3

There is a magic thing called 'tone' in a film, that the director must master and maintain. Votes: 3

That was okay [ working with George Clooney]. One of these days I'll work with a good director. Votes: 3

A film is a director's vision... there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have. Votes: 3

When I couldn't speak English, I loved silent films circa 1914-1929, Abel Gance being my favorite director. Votes: 3

I love working with Darren Lynn Bousman. He is such a cool director with really great ideas. Votes: 3

Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view. Votes: 3

I believe the director's primary role is to create an atmosphere where his company can be created. Votes: 3

I try to add as much as I can before a director says, 'Harold shut up!' Votes: 3

Were I not married to the director, I'm not sure I'd know anything about the 'Underworld' sequel. Votes: 3

I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama. Votes: 3

The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor. Votes: 3

As a producer, I probably am a little stronger than most, since I was a director originally. Votes: 3

To me the director's job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally. Votes: 3

I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul. Votes: 3

I guess you could say I'm like a film director but my movies have only one frame. Votes: 3

I don't make my living writing; I make my living as a producer and as a director. Votes: 3

For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of. Votes: 3

The director in TV and the writer and the creator are working very much hand in hand. Votes: 3

I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has. Votes: 3

I'd like to decide who comes here. I'd like to be the admissions director of New York. Votes: 3

The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure. Votes: 3

My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor. Votes: 3

I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker. Votes: 3

Rewriting the negative beliefs you have learned is the essence of becoming the director of your life. Votes: 3

I think Jesse Eisenberg is such a great writer. He was a great director and really tough. Votes: 3

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act. Votes: 3

I'm more prone to anarchy than I am to control - even though I'm a film director. Votes: 3

I had become a film director because I thought I could express something in an artful way. Votes: 3

Whereas with Sirk, everything is always filmed. No matter what the script, he's always a real director. Votes: 3

My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer. Votes: 3

The director needs to be in command on set because everything crumbles if that's not the case. Votes: 3

I love it when the director says, 'Rebel, just do whatever you want.' I'm, like, 'Yes! Votes: 3

The last thing a director needs is an actress who feels an ownership towards a particular character. Votes: 3

Every director is different. And all the movies are very different, and the characters are very different. Votes: 3

I'm not a betting woman, but I have $50 on Secretariat with an old director friend of mine. Votes: 3

If you see, as I do, in edited film, you're going to end up as a director. Votes: 3

It's an important thing to have a relationship with the director, and have it be a positive one. Votes: 3

I believe, as a producer/director, your duty is to create a beautiful horror film that really resonates. Votes: 3

I'm getting my respect as a video director. The fashion industry respects me and knows who I am. Votes: 3

The director of the FBI...said we can't know for certain who these people are coming from Syria. Votes: 3

As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut. Votes: 3

Shaping it is something I would expect to do together with a writer, because that's a director's job. Votes: 3

Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed. Votes: 3

A good actor's director, first of all, is prepared, so there's not an exorbitant amount of wasted footage. Votes: 3

The thing I loved the most about being art director was picking the photographers and working with them. Votes: 3

You can't be minimalist as a director until you have acquired the experience and confidence to say no. Votes: 3

If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing. Votes: 3

I get involved with projects based on three parameters - the script, the actors involved and the director. Votes: 3

A movie has its own fate, which often doesn't depend on the performances of the director and actors. Votes: 3

The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors. Votes: 3

I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan. Votes: 3

Do whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director. Votes: 3

As a director, try to be humble and not to overdo it, not overcoverage and over-covering the scene. Votes: 3

I'm not interested in being a celebrity; I'm interested in being a better actor and a better director. Votes: 3

If the director of the department doesn't even know what the privacy policy is, we are in trouble. Votes: 3

One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details. Votes: 3

I tend to, if I decide to do a job, want to be able to trust my director. Votes: 3

When you're on stage with an audience, the director's nowhere to be seen. He's onto the next job. Votes: 3

I always think it's a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres. Votes: 3

OK, the director makes the movie. But some movies can't get made without someone like me in them. Votes: 3

Todd [Phillips] doesn't care. That's part of his genius as a director, he will say anything to anybody. Votes: 3

To me, one of the main things that a director does is create the tone of his movie. Votes: 3

I am a fan of the monster and horror genre but that's not my style as a director. Votes: 3

There are directors, and there are authors. I think I am more of an author than a director. Votes: 3

I think a good director casts a film so that the actors bring a lot to the table. Votes: 3

Sometimes when I make a movie, my main goal is to show the movie to one particular director. Votes: 3

I have to be strong about my own tastes because I think that's what the director's job is. Votes: 3

A musical is only as good as its director. The same can also be said for the CIA. Votes: 3

I will one day be thin, but Vincent Gallo will always be the director of The Brown Bunny. Votes: 3

I never feel like a smug or a smart-alec film director, and there are plenty of those around. Votes: 3

There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it. Votes: 3

If all the world's a stage and all the people players, who in bloody hell hired the director? Votes: 3

As a director you have to - you don't have the option of saying, "I'm not watching this." Votes: 3

Before you can steal fire from the Gods you gotta be able to get coffee for the director Votes: 3

In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum. Votes: 3

One thing I know is that I don't want to be a director for hire, making genre films. Votes: 3

Election' is a movie I'd give a leg to cross the director's name out and put mine in. Votes: 3

Mirá pibe. Si Beethoven hubiera nacido en Tacuarembó, hubiera llegado a ser director de la banda del pueblo Votes: 3

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting. Votes: 3

'Election' is a movie I'd give a leg to cross the director's name out and put mine in. Votes: 3

You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer. Votes: 3

When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there. Votes: 3

The movie Ed Wood, about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for Stargate. Votes: 3

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director. Votes: 3

Joe Mantello is the uber director. I wrote him a card tonight saying basically, 'Will you adopt me?' Votes: 3

I've had a couple opportunities where I've been on the other side of the audition process as a director. Votes: 3

How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie. Votes: 3

The director has to win, because you should never force a director to shoot something they don't believe in. Votes: 3

No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others. Votes: 3

The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie. Votes: 3

If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it. Votes: 3

Having a director who is also an actor makes for that very relaxed way of working and it's empowering. Votes: 3

Martin Campbell is a director who has that ability to marshal so many forces together and create a film . Votes: 3

As an actor and a fledgling director, I'm used to making snap decisions that I'll have to live with. Votes: 3

I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director. Votes: 3

The irony of a director going to film festivals is you never get to see any of the films. Votes: 3

I hate to sound like Julie the cruise director but it's people that I think about all the time. Votes: 3

Your director is your everything and you devote yourself to them and you want to help create their vision. Votes: 3

When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me. Votes: 3

My ideal role would be the lead in a film with a director that I really appreciate and admire. Votes: 3

Long before I ever started acting, believe it or not, I always knew I wanted to be a director. Votes: 3

Every time I act in something, I learn something about what the director is doing. One feeds the other. Votes: 3

More often than not, if you've got a good director and a good script you can't really go wrong. Votes: 3

A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again. Votes: 3

I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer. Votes: 3

It was not my class of people. There was not a producer, a press agent, a director, an actor. Votes: 3

With RoboCop, I couldn't be happier because it's such a quality director.José Padilha is a young master. Votes: 3

When I'm tired of taking on too much responsibility as a director I then look for an acting gig. Votes: 3

It's so hard to find a director who, when you look at their body of work, you like everything. Votes: 3

You never know as a director what other directors do. Because you don't get to see what they do. Votes: 3

I learned so much about being an actor by being a director. More than I ever thought I would. Votes: 3

I don't think anyone can really make up their mind and say, Now I'm going to be a director. Votes: 3

The director, of course, was Bob Fosse. But again, I worked with my father to prepare for the role. Votes: 3

I'm at the mercy of others because I'm not a director. I'm not a producer. I'm not a writer. Votes: 3

On the film where I didn't get along with the director, I just decided to not speak to him. Votes: 3

You can't fake comedy - it's not like a movie, where a director can just cast a pretty face. Votes: 3

My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers. Votes: 3

The performance is created by the director. The actor is the material. And I think that has to be true. Votes: 3

I'm a character-driven director, and I tend to fall in love with the characters in my movies and TV shows. Votes: 3

As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes. Votes: 3

I'd like to think every director I've worked with has fallen in love with me, I know Dorothy Arzner did. Votes: 3

I love writing but not crazy meticulous/prepared enough to be a director. I'd work as a gaffer on something. Votes: 3

My main interest in being a director, and the most important thing to me, is that world with the actors. Votes: 3

I imagine as an axiom you could say that the better the play, the less "creativity" the director need exert. Votes: 3

She's got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director. Votes: 3

I've done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading. Votes: 3

Any director will tell you, no matter how big his budget, that it's always the budget and the day count. Votes: 3

As a film director I like to have the actors create their own close-ups. It's an older style of filmmaking. Votes: 3

Actors can become very involved in a role, but for a director or producer, that's your life for many years. Votes: 3

I'm an unusual director in that my cut is usually shorter then the final released film. I like short films. Votes: 3

The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor. Votes: 3

What you do is get the right director and the right screenwriter and the right cast. It's a fantastic job. Votes: 3

Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied. Votes: 3

I am very clear that when I work with a director what he or she says is the last word. Votes: 3

I'm not a feminist, but I just think it's a really cool process working with a woman as a director. Votes: 3

'Ides of March' I did for scale - scale as a director, scale as an actor, scale as a writer. Votes: 3

I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director. Votes: 3

I will work with a director who has good material because at the end of the day, that's what counts. Votes: 3

A good director has to be a captain - he has to work with a lot of people every day. Votes: 3

As a director, I wouldn't like me as an actor. As an actor, I wouldn't like me as a director. Votes: 3

My very first news director said to me that it's better to be hated than to have viewers be neutral. Votes: 3

I didn't know [director] Aaron Woodley at all, but I knew I wanted to be a part of [ The Entitled ]. Votes: 3

It's the first film that I made where the director was not present under the camera, and it threw me. Votes: 3

That's the greatest sin a director can commit; to make a film simply because he wants to make a film. Votes: 3

As an author, you hope for a director and a cast that will make something wonderful out of your book. Votes: 3

How can you have a director that doesn't go to work with the crew every day and talk to them? Votes: 3

But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director. Votes: 3

When we choose only love as the director of our mind we can experience the power and miracle of love. Votes: 3

What I promise to my actors, and to my director, is to give them the salary and everything they need. Votes: 3

Ides of March' I did for scale - scale as a director, scale as an actor, scale as a writer. Votes: 3

I would consider doing any part as long as the script is good and the film has an interesting director. Votes: 3

When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director. Votes: 3

As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is. Votes: 3

My job as the director is to make that as authentic as I can and not to disturb the revelry. Votes: 3

I think that's the key to being a director: to be able to get the shot and move on quickly. Votes: 3

I learn a lot from every director that I work with. I sit on set and watch them, every one. Votes: 3

As a director, I love being able to really be a contributing factor to the overall vision of a project. Votes: 3

I think to be a good director you have to be a good person and you have to care about people. Votes: 3

I wrote a script and I've been whispering in director's ears for a really long time and I'd love to direct. Votes: 3

I'm not sure that I'm really relevant as a director anymore. Or as a writer, either, to tell you the truth. Votes: 3

I know, as an actor, I don't like sharing everything with the director. And it's fine if they don't with me. Votes: 3

You are the director of your own life story. Don't cast idiots or people will walk out during your 2nd act. Votes: 3

You don't often get a proposal to do Tolstoy for a really interesting director - that's easy to say yes to. Votes: 3

I look for a director with a script he likes a lot, but I'm probably after the directors more than anything. Votes: 3

If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film. Votes: 3

Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror. Votes: 3

When I'm filming a kill scene [as a director], I just get happier and happier as we chop up body parts. Votes: 3

I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie. Votes: 3

A good script and a good brief from the director is enough to let me know what is expected of me. Votes: 3

Ultimately, making movies, if you don't have a big star, it's hard to do. Or if it's not a star director. Votes: 3

In many cases for an actor it's a comfortable position to be in. But it's harder to fail as a director. Votes: 3

I always want to challenge myself as a writer. I consider myself more of a writer than I do a director. Votes: 3

You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles. Votes: 3

I look at life as being cruise director on the Titanic. I may not get there, but I'm going first class. Votes: 3

I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director. Votes: 3

I love having a master. I have no problem serving my director. That's my job. I want to make them happy. Votes: 3

Sometimes a great director will do a bad job and an okay director will do a great job. You never know. Votes: 3

Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment. Votes: 3

I never think of myself as a celebrity - or even an actor, actually. I think of myself as a writer-director. Votes: 3

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime. Votes: 3

The best times I had on film sets were the times the director let me express myself, but those were rare. Votes: 3

It depends who the director is you know, I mean Ken Loach for instance. I've done up to 32 takes with him. Votes: 3

When I'm on a picture, I have two bosses - the director and the producer. My co-star is not my boss. Votes: 3

I don't think film is the writer's medium, and so I was interested to see what a director would do with it. Votes: 3

In a weird way, when I was looking back, I didn't know I was going to be a director until I was. Votes: 3

I wanted to know as the director how the actors wanted to tell this story I wanted to know what they thought. Votes: 3

Considering that I'm British and I talk the way I do, I love it when a director takes a chance on me. Votes: 3

It's not my job to try and alter the director's style - he's in charge, and I'll always give him my trust. Votes: 3

I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director. Votes: 3

If I really want to do something, I'll go in and do whatever the director feels that he needs me to do. Votes: 3

I knew that I always wanted to be a filmmaker, an actor, a writer and a director, that was always my plan. Votes: 3

If I don't come home covered head to toe in fake blood then I haven't done my job as a horror director. Votes: 3

When I'm acting, I'm in the director's hands. I'm very happy to be. I like to be focused on what I'm doing. Votes: 3

I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies. Votes: 3

Music is just one of the tools a director has with which to paint and I think it's one of the most effective. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

(As) a director who is a writer, I have respect for writers, so I'm less likely to step on an idea or a line. Votes: 3