Directors Quotes

I do like to work with young directors because it's such a difficult business that I think after directors have been around a while sometimes, not always, but sometimes their passion gets siphoned off because they get hurt.

Because of 'The Birds' and 'Marnie' I was, as the expression goes, hot in Hollywood and producers and directors wanted to hire me.

I don't want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in this industry - directors and producers - are trying to make their games more like movies. They are longing to make movies rather than making videogames.

A lot of really good directors have a killer in them, as if they'd do anything to get that image. But that comes with the terrain and I don't mind it.

I knew at the time that that wasn't the part I would be doing, they just wanted a screentest so they could have a look at it to show to the directors and producers. Then they wrote a part for me or maybe they already had it in mind, I don't know.

I think they quite like me when I work because I'm one of the safer directors to back, because even if my films don't bring their costs in back home, once they're shown outside of India they manage to cover the costs.

I wanted to trust in my partners and the directors and producers and do the best I can to deliver what I could deliver.

I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.

I've worked with many directors, good ones and bad ones. So if I have a chance to work the good ones, I better put myself in their hands, and trust them, because that's my big opportunity to be different, and to be better than usual.

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

I love the work, I love being in front of the camera and working with actors and directors and creating something. For me, it's like learning everyday.

I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain genre conventions. I'd like to do that kind of work someday, but for better or worse I'm too drawn by my own material.

I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.

Directors say that you should get actors before they are recognized. They will be a pain or have an opinion.

I never storyboard. I hate it. I don't understand why so many directors want to make comic strips of their films.

We are the only school in America, drama school in America that trains actors, writers and directors side by side for three years in a master's degree program, and we want them - to expose them to everything.

An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.

The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors.

Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.

Nowadays they have 12 directors and 15 producers and 30 writers. And all the writers want their lines said a certain way-which isn't necessarily funny. I mean the lines aren't necessarily so funny to begin with.

The time I'm not spending with my kid has to be worth it, so when I sat down with my agents after I was ready to go back to work, I told them: It's all about the directors.

It's not like every director in every movie is seeking me out by any means, there are a lot of things I'm not suited for, a lot of things I'm not interested in, and a lot of things that directors wouldn't be interested in me for.

All of the directors I've worked with I've gotten along with very well.

I don't think many actors are the best judge of careers. I think generally we have good instincts about what we can do in terms of acting. And often they become directors, which I don't want to be.

Most of the great directors I've worked with - De Palma, Spike Lee - like rehearsals.

If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew.

I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.

Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't.

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

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