Director Quotes
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It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'
Zoey Deutch
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I was definitely incredibly close to my dad, in a way that was all-encompassing. I am close to my mum, too, but there were areas that she and I did not share. So his loss to me was huge, personally and professionally. He believed in me, not just as a father, but as a director, and that always meant a lot.
Natasha Richardson
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Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
Samuel Goldwyn
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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me. So when David Fincher comes along and wants to direct 'The Social Network,' when Bennett Miller comes along and wants to direct 'Moneyball,' or when Danny Boyle wants to direct 'Jobs'? Hallelujah. I want them directing it.
Aaron Sorkin
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I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time.
Sam Mendes
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Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.
Tamra Davis
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What goes on between the actor and director is sacred.
Jack Kilmer
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Rituparno Ghosh is a legendary director, and I happen to be a huge fan of his.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
Quentin Tarantino
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
Oscar Isaac
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I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
Carla Gallo
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I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes.
R. Kelly
