Directors Quotes

Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays.

I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on.

I was on the state board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union.

I worked for a lot of directors.

In a collaborative environment directors hire actors because they want their input, not just their bodies.

As you can probably tell, I like films and directors that bring a totally unique style to filming action.

Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.

Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance.

The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting.

I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.

There are only so many hilarious actors so when they cross-pollinate, people assume it's always the same actors and directors.

Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a certain effect. But to me the most valuable commodity for a movie to create is a feeling of life, and that's what A Hard Day's Night has in spades.

Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce.

I've figured out what to do so far, but it's always the next thing you come to where the man with the bucket of ice cold water is waiting - whoosh! in your face. That's why you work with directors who know what to tell you to do.

Arnold and Jamie Lee must have worked over the years with directors that did 50 takes, because I'd get like three takes or so and say, Ok, that's it, we're done.

I loved doing all those costume dramas. I didn't think, 'Ooh I've got to avoid being typecast' - you can't ever be dictated to by what other people think. I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors.

When you look at the early-'30s movies, like King Kong, the codes of acting are very similar to those of silent movies. In some of the silent movies - the good ones, the ones done by the best directors - the acting is very, very natural.

I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner.

I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.

Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that.

Control is the wrong word. The practice is very much about sharing, and, in any creative practice, some individuals, whether partners or directors, are much closer to certain projects than I could ever be.

Gotta watch out for directors.

Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there.

And I just want to work with good directors and good people.

A lot of young directors, they're not confident; they're not open to the emotional level of the scene.

I've always said to people that auteurism is nice, but it's hypothetical, and gradually you learn how much or how little influence different directors had.

Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.

Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those days, artists or directors or producers, as the case may be.

I think every director has a different take, some are good, some are bad. The directors you get on best with sometimes don't make the best films, so who's to say who is right.

The director's who want to be innovative use the DVD as a tool to see what people have done in the past and you have other people who will actually take from better directors and that makes them better directors.