Director Quotes
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Usually in TV... A TV director could be anything from a main grip to just a glorified cameraman, and sometimes a director can be the person who is hired last. It's very much a producer's medium.
Edgar Wright -
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.
Jackie Cooper
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I don't have a director. The audience directs me.
Hal Holbrook -
Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. 'From Here to Eternity' must have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann.
Manny Farber -
My character in 'Batman v Superman' isn't supposed to be Japanese, but director Zack Snyder said he'd seen me in 'Wolverine' and had to get me in the film somehow. Hearing that was like music to my ears.
Tao Okamoto -
Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a studio-approved director, your chances of ever making your own film again are zero. You make the films that the studio wants you to make.
Gary Sherman -
I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director.
Famke Janssen -
That's how I am as a director - if somebody does a really good take, I can't help it, I'm not even aware of it. Actors really, really need positive reinforcement.
Cameron Crowe
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Usually in features, I'm the lead. I consider the director the captain, but I consider myself the first mate, and it's up to me to keep in contact with the heart of the crew.
Eddie Albert -
I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.
Ted Kotcheff -
I’ll leave a note to the rector of the cathedral and remind him that a woman gave him birth. Something for him to think about the next time he gives one of his sermons. I’m writing all this down.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
I suppose where I am sort of reflects the work I have chosen to do. Are there occasional frustrations because I can't work with a certain director because it's a big studio movie, and I don't have enough of a studio profile? The answer is yes. But generall... generally, I have the career I have chosen myself.
Damian Lewis -
Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
Fanny Brice -
Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.
Vera Farmiga
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I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.
Frances McDormand -
Out of nowhere, I became a fairly well-known director with a penchant for opera, which I did for 10 years. Then I realized I was taking myself out the theater channel, and so I re-focused on theater.
Jack O'Brien -
I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director.
Harold Prince -
After I completed the project for BCG, I was offered the position of Director of Marketing for Ozon.ru.
Maelle Gavet -
I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
Daniel Espinosa -
Sucking up to a director means you are unsure of your talents. I'm not.
Kangana Ranaut
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I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.
Walter Hill -
I'm such a fan of Daniel Waters, who wrote the script, and also Mark Waters, his brother, who directed. 'Vampire Academy' has, I think, an iconic director.
Sami Gayle -
I met my agent through a casting director here in Wilmington after I auditioned for a Disney movie.
Maddie Hasson -
What happens is things come to you - director, script - and if you respond to it, it's because it's tapping into some part of what's inside you, and different roles tap into different parts.
Sean Penn