Director Quotes

• I have been very influenced by the director Maurice Pialat, who I continue to be in conversation and conflict with and get inspiration from.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Inspiration
  • Conversation
  • Conflict

• I'm an enormous fan of Ron Howard. I mean, he's the most extraordinary director.

  

  Georgina Chapman
  • Director
  • Fan
  • Ron Howard

• The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door.

  

  Richard Morris
  • Music
  • Education
  • Director

• I do have a sense of fear every day going to work, but I think it's something that I like. I mean I do like the feeling of waking up on my own, having this moment of like: "Oh, f**k, I hope I can do this today!" Because it makes you realise that you're working with material or you're working with a director or you're working with a cast and they're keeping you on your toes.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Fear
  • I Hope
  • Realise

• If all the world's a stage and all the people players, who in bloody hell hired the director?

  

  Charles L. Grant
  • People
  • World
  • Stage

• Penelope Spheeris is a wonderful lady. She's a very talented director, and I curse better because of her.

  

  Dave Mustaine Metallica
  • Director
  • Lady
  • Talented

• I am a first-time director given an opportunity to pursue an artistic ambition I would not likely have the chance to elsewhere. The budget is excruciatingly tight, I am regularly abused and I expect to be fired sometime before we shoot. It's nice to see that, at Miramax, continuity has been maintained.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Nice

• I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script, know the truth and the reality of it. That's very important.

  

  Robert Wise
  • Important
  • Reality
  • Subject

• One of the most, in a weird way, encouraging things a director can say to an actor - I know this as an actor - is when you ask them a question, they say, I don't know - 'cause it means there's some space there for you to find out. And it means that there's going to be a process.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Question
  • Space
  • Weird

• I've always wanted to write movies - I always used to tell my mom that I wanted to be a director.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Mom
  • Movies
  • Director

• Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that.

  

  Asia Argento
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Child

• Making a film, you're in a really dark tunnel and the only kind of illumination is the shared experience you're having with your fellow cast and director.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Experience
  • Dark
  • Film

• I owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • She
  • Gift
  • Bankhead

• I don't consider myself a flashy director. A lot of times, people will look and don't even know what I do.

  

  Scott Ellis
  • Times
  • Consider
  • Even

• The director Denis Villeneuve is actually an actor he's from Sons of Anarchy and he's a great character actor and he's also a screenwriter he wrote What Lies Beneath. It blows my mind to see when people from one sector move to another and excel. I think Sicario was one of the best directed and written films. It did get [a nomination for best] cinematography, though.

  

  Bun B
  • Actor
  • Sons of Anarchy
  • Denis Villeneuve

• I want to be fulfilled creatively as an actress and get to be in roles that are meaningful and impactful. I hope the same thing for myself as a director, one day. I want to make things that have an impact on how we look at the world.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • World
  • Hope
  • Meaningful

• With bad movies, I have this image in my head of the director and the editor in the editing room watching a scene that is not happening, looking at each other and saying, 'Put some music in there.'

  

  Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla Bajofondo
  • Movies
  • Saying
  • Watching

• Every actor. every director, everybody needs an Oscar. You have to have that little statue in Hollywood or else you are nothing.

  

  Rita Hayworth
  • Actor
  • Hollywood
  • Director

• If someone were to hire me for a film they'd be getting a certain kind of package, that's for sure, a certain set of tools. But I would listen to the director.

  

  Mike Patton Faith No More
  • Film
  • Listen
  • Director

• In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • Director
  • Studio
  • Controls

• Casting, to me, is always the same. It's a very important part of a director's job. I pick people that I sense I'd like to be in a room with and will enjoy the rehearsal process with because that's the best part.

  

  Scott Ellis
  • Important
  • Best
  • Always

• I was 17, certainly by the time I was 19, I knew that show business was where I was going to end up, and I had my sights on being a director.

  

  Brian Henson
  • Business
  • Director
  • Sights

• All the videos we have done have been our ideas, our concepts. We're a very conscious band of the way we present ourselves onstage and the artwork for the record and everything like that. So every time we do videos, it's the same thing. We sit down with the director and have him make our vision come true.

  

  Dennis Lyxzén AC4
  • Band
  • Conscious
  • Onstage

• I've wanted to come to the U.S. since I was 8 years old. Every single year, my mom and I watched the Oscars. I always told her, 'I want to do that when I grow up. I want to tell stories; I want to be an actor and director.'

  

  Eugenio Derbez
  • Always
  • Actor
  • Grow

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