Director Quotes
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I have my pride. I'm a director. I'm not going to go and recreate some other director's vision.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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When I do any stand-up, you're the writer, director, and producer. You're alone.
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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.
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I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.
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I met my agent through a casting director here in Wilmington after I auditioned for a Disney movie.
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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.
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Being an actor really, really strengthens me as a director. There's just a certain type of understanding that comes from having been there and knowing how much is really being asked of actors that helps me.
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I randomly went to a casting session in my hometown in North Carolina, and the casting director introduced me to my manager. I really lucked into it!
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I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
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Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.
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I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.
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On the clothes front, I have a designer who sits with the director for each film to chalk out a look for me based on the script.
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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.
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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.
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That was me under the bath and the water being held down. The director wanted it to look as real as possible so he told Keanu, in front of me, don't go easy on her. So it was scary.
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I love animals. With animals you never know what you're getting. Everybody says don't mess with animals and little kids in movies but those are the funniest things because you can't be in control. I like to lose control as a director.
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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Snow Cake is a lovely film. Really proud of that. We shot it in 21 days. I thought Sigourney was amazing in it. And very, very accurate. I think there was some element that thought she had pushed it too far. But not at all when you do the amount of homework she had done and spent the amount of time she did with adult autistics. She was right on the money. And I think Marc Evans is a terrific director. He's a sweet, open, honest man and a really good director of actors.
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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.
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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.
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It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.
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I like to call myself the 'director of family and business affairs,' ... Your overall job is child care, housework -- and business.
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I love movies where you can sense that the director risked biting off more than they can chew.
