Director Quotes

• I tend to ... if I decide to do a job, want to be able to trust my director...

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Job
  • Trust
  • Decide

• The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.

  

  Nicholas Meyer
  • Director
  • Conductor
  • Analogous

• I learn a lot from every director that I work with. I sit on set and watch them, every one.

  

  Jonah Hill
  • Work
  • Learn
  • Director

• As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how to just do things and work with good people.

  

  Paul Feig
  • People
  • Work
  • Director

• Every director is always directing around the play. If you have an actor who really doesn't get the character well enough, you have to direct the play around that character. You have to make choices with that actor. If you have an actor that really doesn't get the role and has certain visions of the role, sometimes you have to direct around that actor.

  

  Nilo Cruz
  • Actor
  • Role
  • Visions

• From my side, I don't put pressure on the director to cater to a certain image. I am happy to do different films, and I have to stick by my director. I like to completely surrender myself to the director - that way, I think, I don't get to do the similar roles.

  

  Suriya
  • Roles
  • Director
  • Surrender

• In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very good reason - the director cut according to the script. So, if you ad libbed, you'd be off mike and off camera.

  

  Harry Shearer
  • Director
  • Script
  • SNL

• As a director, you never think about how an audience would respond. You can think about that, but you will never change what you're going to do.

  

  Juan Antonio Bayona
  • Audience
  • Director
  • Respond

• When I work, I work very hard. So I look to work with people who have that level of dedication. And I depend on that from everyone. From the director to my crews that I work with.

  

  Tom Cruise
  • Work
  • Director
  • Dedication

• There is an isolated experience to being a director. It's very communal because there's a crew, but it's only you. You're the one on the hook.

  

  Noah Baumbach
  • Experience
  • Director
  • Crew

• But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor.

  

  Ray Walston
  • Actor
  • Difference
  • Cases

• I don't blame any director for wanting to do something more commercial. That's all part of the business. I certainly have done it, as an actor.

  

  Steve Buscemi
  • Business
  • Director
  • Blame

• Each Catwoman is specific to the Gotham City she lives in and the director that helps shape her. So it's kind of hard to have a favorite and I'm not just being political, it's hard to have a favorite because each one is so specific as themselves.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Favorite
  • Shape
  • Catwoman

• The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor.

  

  Paul Scofield
  • Actor
  • Forget
  • Existence

• I don't worry about what everyone wants to see. I make movies that please a writer, director and myself. I always think there are enough people smart as me and sensitive as me.

  

  Saul Zaentz
  • Worry
  • Director
  • Sensitive

• I think that artists don't make art - the art makes itself through us. I'm not the doer. I'm just along for the ride. Acting really reminds me of that because I don't write the words; I don't make the decisions. That's the director. Narcissism is a tragic condition. It must be so miserable to live trapped in a reflection that only includes the smallest version of our identities. Our true identities should have no bounds and no limits.

  

  Ezra Miller
  • Art
  • Decisions
  • Artists

• When Chris Nolan is your director you are like, "I trust that, I'm wrong."

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Trust
  • Wrong
  • Director

• What a director is looking for is someone who will follow you and no matter what. And if you ask for blue, he's gonna try blue. And if you say, give me a piece of red with it, and they try. And you don't mind so much if it's difficult to get the blue and the red together. As long as they try. And as long as they give everything they can to give you what you want. That's what I'm looking for.

  

  Luc Besson
  • Director

• Vicky Donor or Madras Caf, John's films have been path-breaking. I have full faith in the script of my movie, and my director, too, is a debutante. I like the conviction with which they work, and that gives me a lot of confidence.

  

  Harshvardhan Rane
  • Movie
  • Vicky Donor
  • Madras Caf

• The relationship between an actress and her director is often a very close one.

  

  Peter Stone
  • Relationship
  • Director
  • Actress

• You have to be willing to be manipulated in the first place because you can either recognize that in your director and then fight it because you don't trust them, but I'm not going to let them manipulate me. Or you think they're on to something and that they're manipulating something out of you which is interesting and new.

  

  Heath Ledger
  • Trust
  • Fight
  • Director

• Any good movie is filled with secrets. If a director doesn't leave anything unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture's unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture is good, it's mysterious, with things unsaid.

  

  Ernst Lubitsch
  • Movie
  • Picture
  • Secrets

• Many times I felt like I'd do better than what the director did, but some of them got a little discouraged because they didn't have full charge of making the film, and sometimes there'd be battles of egos.

  

  Ray Harryhausen
  • Sometimes
  • Because
  • Discouraged

• Working with a great director is like getting a master class in acting.

  

  Swoosie Kurtz
  • Acting
  • Working
  • Master

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