Directors Quotes

• There are plenty of bad actors and there are plenty of bad directors. There are actors who will always be bad and there are good actors who you cry for because they're being badly directed or the material isn't good enough.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Enough
  • Actors
  • Materials

• I have worked with a lot of great directors but my favorites are all entirely different from one another. They don't go about it the same way.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Different
  • Directors
  • Favorites

• For some directors, I'm the actor from hell.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Actor
  • Hell
  • Directors

• All I want for my career is I want to work with the best directors and I want to be treated like a Caucasian man would be.

  

  Mena Massoud
  • Career
  • Want
  • Directors

• You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is.

  

  Ernst Lubitsch
  • Remember
  • Talent
  • Silent

• I'm so tired of hearing casting directors ask if I have a sore throat. The people who have told me that my voice is distinctive, it's unusual...those people have always been close to my heart.

  

  Scarlett Johansson
  • Heart
  • Voice
  • Directors

• I have a problem with writer/directors, personal. I can't work well with both of them on the set, if both of them are giving instructions. Writers tend to be in love with what they wrote. You can't always translate the words into the meaning, sometimes the meaning is better served without the words, difficult to make a writer to try to understand that. It gets, sometimes, tense.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Work
  • Problem
  • Writer

• I was thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the writer from the artistic process. If we can just get rid of these actors and directors, maybe we got something here.

  

  Michael Tolkin
  • Thinking
  • Interesting
  • Process

• 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

• You have to be submitted for the Pulitzer, and unbeknownst to us, a choral director whom I know had submitted us.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Knows
  • Directors

• I think new directors come with new perceptions, energy, and passion to win. They don't have to worry about an already existing image or budget that they have to recover.

  

  R. Madhavan
  • Energy
  • Passion
  • Win

• In any of the big acting cities, there are breakdowns that the casting directors put together for the projects that they're working on and then they get sent out to the agents and stuff like that. It's difficult to find projects, sometimes, unless your agent or manager is submitting you for those specific projects.

  

  Bostin Christopher
  • Working
  • Projects
  • Manager

• I used to work for an NGO called Transitions Online, and I was their Director of New Media. I was a very idealistic fellow who thought that he could use blogs, social networks and new media to help promote democracy, human rights and freedom of expression.

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • Social
  • Expression
  • Directors

• All the directors that I've had the opportunity to work with are fantastic.

  

  Will Friedle
  • Opportunity
  • Directors
  • Fantastic

• All directors should have to act and all actors should have to direct, so that they can understand all these key things that come into play with whether you can meet your day.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Actors
  • Act
  • Directors

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

  

  Rebel Wilson
  • Want
  • Directors
  • Rebel

• 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

• Nobody, except Russian directors, can truly reveal all the features of the Russian soul.

  

  Ornella Muti
  • Soul
  • Directors
  • Russian

• No English director would've cast me as an officer, I promise you. Not one.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Promise
  • Casts
  • Officers

• At almost forty years old, I assumed my career on camera was over. And I was certainly given that message by all the TV managers and news directors who passed on me when I was trying to get a job back in the business.

  

  Mika Brzezinski
  • Trying
  • Careers
  • Cameras

• As a director, you just have to kind of like just get through the first project before starting on the next one.

  

  Joshua Michael Stern
  • Kind
  • Firsts
  • Next

• In relationships with a directors I want to be able to give and take, and I can't name what it is: respect, energy, investment in the task, focus, humor, intelligence, but I always feel responsible for taking the money.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Money
  • Relationships
  • Responsible

• Reviewers are certainly entitled to their own opinions. I've become buddies with enough writers and directors, and to be perfectly honest, the ones that have lasted a long time don't pay a lot of attention to the reviews.

  

  Evan Daugherty
  • Attention
  • Opinions
  • Reviewers

• I never turned down anything and never argued with any producer or director.

  

  Charles Durning
  • Directors
  • Producers

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