Director Quotes

I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.

There's people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you're compassionate.

I owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me.

A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.

It does make you a better director and a better actor.

Sirk was every woman's dream of a director.

You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all the parts, but as a screenwriter, you are a bit down the ladder.

You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.

It's an important thing to have a relationship with the director, and have it be a positive one.

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

You pick projects for the part, the director, and the script. I just want to do different, interesting stuff.

The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.

When you're the director, you kinda do all the work.

The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.

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

Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.

Ultimately in the end, it's the director's choice.

I don't want to be a director, or to have responsibility for hundreds of people.

My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.

You never want to be the director who dropped the ball, you know?

My husband's a director, so he understands what I do.

A director just pushes them a little this way or that way.

I got my dailies every day, although I couldn't always look at them because I was usually preparing for the next day's shoot, both as an actress and as the director.

I don't think it's a director's job to peek behind the curtain too much.

If I feel the part is right, and I know that the producers and the director want me, I'd go for broke. Always.

I want to try and be instinctive as a writer and director.

For a director, the most challenging scenes are the dialogue scenes.

When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.

Every director works differently.

How can you have a director that doesn't go to work with the crew every day and talk to them?

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.

You don't realize it, but often people are frightened of the director.

Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.

I never wanted to be a director.

The director is planning on titling the film 'Yummy Fur' so we are probably planning on changing the title of the book to 'Yummy Fur' to match the film.

When I'm on a picture, I have two bosses - the director and the producer. My co-star is not my boss.

The way I see it, when I go out as an actor, it should be on a type of film I'm never going to do as a director.

The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor.

In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum.

I'm an enormous fan of Ron Howard. I mean, he's the most extraordinary director.

As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director.

My very first news director said to me that it's better to be hated than to have viewers be neutral.

When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director.

I like working as a director most.

I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.

What you do is get the right director and the right screenwriter and the right cast. It's a fantastic job.

I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.

As a producer, I probably am a little stronger than most, since I was a director originally.

Every story is different, every movie is different, every director is different.

As a director you come in and tell the actors how good they are.

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

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.

Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.

I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.

I'm an actress who likes a strong, communicative director.

I think with the smaller-scale projects, the burden for success falls more squarely on the shoulders of the actors and the director and the script.

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

Every casting director I've met is a woman.

Snoop Scorsese, that's my director name.

I think of myself as a meat-and-potatoes kind of director.

I think Polanski's an amazing director.

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

I never turned down anything and never argued with any producer or director.

I'm a real director.

I'm an actor's director.

A good script and a good brief from the director is enough to let me know what is expected of me.

I don't even know if I can call myself a director.

It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors.

I had no plans to be a director.

Yet as a director, I don't feel you have to identify with your characters as a requirement to make a movie.

Every director is so different from every other one.

Marlon was more of a formal zoo director type.

I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor.