Director Quotes

The first thing I ask when I'm offered a part is, Who's the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles.

The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door.

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

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

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

I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.

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

I thoroughly enjoyed working on Enemy of the State. Tony Scott is an important director, and has an amazing ability to express himself, and he doesn't do it in musical terms , he does it in emotional terms. I got along really well with him.

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.

I have no interest in directing. I'd be a bad director.

The National Intelligence Director needs the authority to do the job we are asking him to do. That means power over the intelligence budget. And to be effective, to be allowed to do his or her job, they must have authority over the budget.

In cinema, the leading player is the director.

Originally a record producer more or less hired a bunch of professionals to participate in a recording session, the performers and the technicians, and a music director was put in charge. That directly related to a film producer's job.

I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you'd come up with something exponentially better.

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

I'm always cautious about overstepping any boundaries. At the end of the day, it's a director's medium, and if they don't want to hear from me I just step back.

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!

The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day; the reality of things is what happens tomorrow.

Mankiewicz was a brilliant director.

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

Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.

They say that theater is the actor's medium, television is the writer's medium and film is the director's medium, and it's really true.

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

Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.

A disk unbeknownst to the director can go to the producer in another city or in another office and that producer can edit behind the director's back much easier than in the old days. Since these dailies are now put on videotape, more kinds of people have access to dailies.

With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the special effects guy and the lighting technician: I'm all of that. So if it's good or bad, it's all up to me.

Sabrina ran for seven years with a different director every week.

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

I remember that it was never that difficult for me to get a director to look up and pay attention to me. Mind you, I don't know if that's necessarily charm. But I've played roles where my character has to be charming and I've found it quite easy to do. I think some of it is in my bones, but some of it is more deliberate.

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