Director Quotes
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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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I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.
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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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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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When I do any stand-up, you're the writer, director, and producer. You're alone.
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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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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 not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.
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I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
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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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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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Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director.
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I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.
