Director Quotes

• Just being hired by a great director is complimentary.

  

  Tom Skerritt
  • Director
  • Complimentary
  • Being hired

• Rob Reiner is a teddy bear. He's hell delicious. He's a really good director. He's a great soul. In the movie business, I would call him a movie mom. The only person I hold in equal esteem is Clint Eastwood. Now I have worked with a lot of terrific directors, and I don't mean to be putting any of them below their own station, but these two, I relish working with them.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Soul
  • Teddy Bear
  • Rob Reiner

• Every decent director has only one subject, and finally only makes the same film over and over again. My subject is the exploitability of feelings, whoever might be the one exploiting them. It never ends. It's a permanent theme. Whether the state exploits patriotism, or whether in a couple relationship, one partner destroys the other.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Relationship
  • Film
  • Couple

• There's a different set of writers and a different director for the films, but Marvel has turned it into a pretty spectacular job.

  

  Clark Gregg
  • Different
  • Job
  • Pretty

• An actor gets to take a nap, but the director is working hard from dawn till midnight. I'm kind of lazy.

  

  Michael Horse
  • Actor
  • Director

• I don't think anyone can really make up their mind and say, Now I'm going to be a director.

  

  Judd Hirsch
  • Mind
  • Make
  • Director

• At the end of the two years that I was the director [of the Center for Reproductive and Sexual Health in Manhattan], we had done 60,000 abortions. [During my life] I myself, with my own hands, have done 5,000 abortions. I have supervised another 10,000 that residents have done under my direction. So I have 75,000 abortions in my life. Those are pretty good credentials to speak on the subject of abortion.

  

  Bernard Nathanson
  • Director
  • Abortion
  • Center

• Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Blessed
  • Actor
  • Sandy Meisner

• You are the executive director and screenwriter of your life.

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Life
  • Director
  • Screenwriter

• I came in on this movie after there had been a director and I came in after Tom Courtenay had talked to Ron Harwood about making a movie. So, you know Tom and Albert Finney had been friends since the beginning of their career as they became stars around the same time - Tom always reminds me that Albert was first with Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and then Tom with The Long Distance Runner.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • Movie
  • Tom Courtenay
  • Ron Harwood

• My husband's a director, so he understands what I do.

  

  Sasha Alexander
  • Husband
  • Director

• For me, a director is a director immaterial of the gender. At the end of the day, the audience is only interested in watching a good film.

  

  Boman Irani
  • Audience
  • Gender
  • Good Film

• I think I'm ready to bring my style to a comedic movie as a director.

  

  Eugenio Derbez
  • Movie
  • Director
  • Comedic

• It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.

  

  Jon Landau
  • Movies
  • Director
  • Chaplin

• I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.

  

  Sean Penn
  • Movies
  • Actor
  • Director

• I don't come to work as an actor. There are many directors who can direct without ever having acted and do a great job and connect with their actors and lead them to excellent performances without themselves having had an acting background.

  

  Abdellatif Kechiche
  • Job
  • Acting
  • Background

• If I have to wear a hat as a producer to do that, then I'm willing to do that. An actor's, producer's and director's point-of-view is all the same to me, as long as the story's being told.

  

  Michael Eklund
  • Story
  • Actor
  • Point

• I have to say from an actor's perspective, to work with a director who has been an actor through most of their career is a pleasure. They generally have a very deep understanding of the process of what you're doing, of how you are building and exploring the character.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Work
  • Character
  • Career

• I try to offer as much as I can to the director so he has as much to work with as possible to create the character that, really, he wants to create in a sense.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Work
  • Character
  • Try

• And one of the funnest things was watching what they did before the director called action and after the director called cut. And they'd keep their hands in the puppets, they'd stay in character, and then they'd start goofing around with each other and be off of script, and it would get quite blue.

  

  Brian Henson
  • Character
  • Action
  • Puppets

• I have to be strong about my own tastes because I think that's what the director's job is.

  

  Andre Ovredal
  • Job
  • Director
  • Tastes

• The first thing I ask when I'm offered a part is, Who's the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles.

  

  Swoosie Kurtz
  • Part
  • Director
  • Ask

• The core of a director is the person's tastes in what elements go together and how they go together. It's a puzzle.

  

  Andre Ovredal
  • Together
  • Director
  • Tastes

• In the theater the audience is generally riveted to a single angle of observation. The movie director, though, can rapidly shift from objective to subjective--and to any number of subjective points of view--and in so doing seem to pull the audience directly inside the frame of his picture, giving the spectator the sense of experiencing an action from the viewpoint of a participant. Identification of the viewer with the film character, then, can be much more intimate than the analogous situation in the theater.

  

  Ed Murray
  • Character
  • Film
  • Audience

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