Directors Quotes

• A lot of directors are great and they are fine but you know I think that Harry really takes a special point to really engage the actors and really make it feel like a safe place for them to explore whatever it is they want to explore in whatever scene with their character.

  

  Will Estes
  • Great
  • Character
  • Actors

• He Oliver Stone is great. I really like working with directors who know what they want and aren't afraid to tell you, "Do it like this. Don't do it like that."

  

  Scott Eastwood
  • Working
  • Afraid
  • Directors

• Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything.

  

  Molly Parker
  • Feelings
  • Happens
  • Insecurity

• The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra.

  

  Roland Joffe
  • Bigger
  • Orchestra
  • Conducting

• It was never a deliberate decision to make films about the 'woman experience'. Having said that, we are all many things - for example I'm Igbo and Nigerian, a director, a filmmaker etc., but I feel what affects me the most, especially the way people/society view or treat me, is the fact that I'm a woman, and I'm fascinated by that.

  

  Chika Anadu
  • Decision
  • Film
  • Filmmaker

• There are the obstacles of your position as an actor, not being a commodity enough to be hired by the big directors for projects that have some kind of integrity, because the successful actors who've been in the game for a while want those roles. So there's more competition, so you have to work harder and be right for it.

  

  Adrien Brody
  • Competition
  • Actor
  • Integrity

• If you're not grown up enough to understand that a trailer is not done by the director, then fine. Judge the movie from the trailer.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • Done
  • Enough
  • Judging

• I don't want to do just "Hello, goodbye," only for very, very good directors like Jonathan Demme, who asked me to sing this tango in his film The Truth About Charlie (2002). If not, I really take my choices, because I'm too old to say yes to everything, and also, I've done too many good things to go do whatever now.

  

  Anna Karina
  • Film
  • Choices
  • Directors

• It's just unfair that talent of color aren't given the same opportunities as white and male actors, directors, producers, writers, et cetera.

  

  Darnell M. Hunt
  • Opportunity
  • Talent
  • Producers

• I love it when the director says, 'Rebel, just do whatever you want.' I'm, like, 'Yes!

  

  Rebel Wilson
  • Want
  • Directors
  • Rebel

• I really do like working very closely with a director and developing characters.

  

  Morgan Saylor
  • Character
  • Directors
  • Developing

• If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew.

  

  Catherine Keener
  • Actors
  • Frustrated
  • Casting

• The director of the FBI has been visiting Silicon Valley companies asking them to build back doors so that it can spy on what is being said online. The Department of Commerce is going after piracy. At home, the American government wants anything but Internet freedom.

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • Government
  • Doors
  • Directors

• I learned a lot of things from those big, big directors. And a lot of it was what I didn't want to do.

  

  Hal Needham
  • Things
  • Directors

• There are so many female directors coming into the industry and a lot of them have important stories they want to tell that seem to fall a little bit more on the indie level.

  

  Anne Fletcher
  • Stories
  • Directors
  • Female

• The main problem is that the Hollywood system has already made the film before the director shoots a single frame.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Problem
  • Film
  • Directors

• I've worked with a lot of great directors.

  

  Catherine Keener
  • Directors

• No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.

  

  Tommy Lee Jones
  • Ideas
  • Directors
  • Shy

• When a director makes a mistake, people suffer. People suffer horribly sometimes.

  

  William H. Macy
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Suffering

• So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.

  

  Michel Legrand
  • Writing
  • Needed
  • Asks

• I'm just saying to everyone. The director does not direct the trailer. It's an edited version that takes so many moments of the movie, sometimes it's not even in the movie. The director does the movie. So don't judge the director based on the trailer. Please.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • Moments
  • Sometimes
  • Judging

• The funniest thing is that all the things every director goes through, I thought I could shortcut, but there was no getting around those issues.

  

  George Clooney
  • inspirational
  • Motivational
  • Directors

• You've got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it all out of the window and shoot spontaneously, then you must follow his lead.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Acting
  • Planning
  • Window

• I've turned down good directors before because I knew the part didn't speak to me and I've worked with less talented directors before because the part I had such passion for.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Passion
  • Directors
  • Worked

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