Director Quotes
- Page 19Originally 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.
Tony Visconti
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.
Tony Goldwyn
If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
Patrice Leconte
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.
Matt Damon
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!
Mark Rydell
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.
Drew Barrymore
I hate to sound like Julie the cruise director but it's people that I think about all the time.
Bruce McCulloch
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.
Charlie Hunnam
Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.
James Agate
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.
Alan Cumming
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.
Ewan McGregor
The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer.
Kyle MacLachlan
I was seen dancing at school by a director, who asked me to be in a TV play. And it had a huge impact. So I think that's what really started me off.
Francesca Annis
I don't really care where I work, actually, because you know making a movie is like living in movie world. There's such a secluded world, and the director is the king ruling the country, and everybody's building this little town to speak in symbolism.
Franka Potente
I would like you to consider the difference in the time from 1963 to date. The FBI, at that time, was headed by Mr. Hoover who had been appointed Director continuously. He had, I would say, a good reputation.
John Sherman Cooper
I'd love to see the rushes but it's just not allowed because directors and also a lot of actors feel that if they see their work, and the director likes what they're doing, the actor might try to correct their mistakes.
Corey Haim
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
Alfred Hitchcock
In Dreams... well, I was slightly overcompensating with that. I was a bit like a director for hire, so maybe I was putting too much imagery that was familiar to me into it.
Neil Jordan
There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather than doctrine and worship are to determine the form of the Church.
Arthur Middleton
In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you don't look at war as a geopolitical endeavor.
Steven Spielberg
When I worked on Altar Boys, they wanted to see us having fun. The four of us would have fun on set and steal each other's lines, and mess with the director.
Kieran Culkin
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.
Swoosie Kurtz
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.
Richard Morris