Director Quotes

You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you more miserable and get a good take.

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

I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director.

I have no idea what makes a director believe in me that I can sell these kind of roles.

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.

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

I think directing in a team is a really good idea because it stops the cult of the director as God straight away, and also you're discussing things on set so it opens it out to everyone and it becomes a totally collaborative thing. And you have someone who supports you when you're feeling a bit insecure.

The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.

Larry Kasdan is a great director.

Some friends of mine who are actors feel directing shuts them down and kills all their impulses, but the worst thing for me is if I feel a director hasn't noticed.

I found it to be more challenging to be in a huge effects movie, because a lot of the things aren't there.You have to trust the director and react to nothing.

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

If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance.

My musical director, Mark Cherry, is the most wonderful person who ever lived on God's good green Earth. He's my director, he does the arrangements. Really, he does everything - including certain janitorial chores!

Of all the projects I've worked on, I've never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he's a genius.

I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be.

Not at all, I wanted to go into medicine. I took science in college. But my dad was a Producer - Director in Kannada films, and someone saw me, and one thing led to another.

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

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

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

But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.

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

I don't think a director should have any kids. I don't even think it's good for your physical health. Even guys in their 30s look exhausted because directors never get enough sleep. What I do is stressful enough.

One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what one has experienced and understood about the human condition as it relates to the role one has been hired to portray.

Every casting director I've met is a woman.

Since signing with Universal, I have been working closely with Gary Ross, the director, producer and screenwriter. We have spent many hours on the phone, and I've been sending him information and items that have been useful to the writing process.

With acting I am being led by the script, other actors, the director, etc. But with songwriting I feel it is much more self reliant and allows me to be in the creative experience without being as dependent on others.

There's no doubt about Prakash's abilities as a director.

I want to work with a director who becomes my brother, my father, for two months. You give yourself over to that person.

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