Directors Quotes

• 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

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

  

  Michael Caine
  • Promise
  • Casts
  • Officers

• Steven Spielberg is one of the most creative and successful directors and producers in the history of filmmaking. I have the highest respect both for him and for DreamWorks, and I look forward to many more years of continued collaboration.

  

  Bob Wright
  • History
  • Respect
  • Collaboration

• If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Movie
  • Actors
  • Stage

• I think since I did Monster I really started understanding how hard it is for first time directors. I think there's a lot of great stories out there, but it's high risk.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Stories
  • Directors
  • Monster

• 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
  • Want
  • Career
  • Directors

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I will always have a child in me. That is what Pete Jackson has got, what a lot of the directors I have worked with have. It is about knowing how to have fun and that is something I always want to hold on to.

  

  Saoirse Ronan
  • Children
  • Fun
  • Directors

• I get to play a great character while working with great actors and great directors on a great show.

  

  Harry Hamlin
  • Character
  • Actors
  • Show

• The first must that any director has is to not force his public.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • Force
  • Firsts
  • Directors

• It's always fun to get to do independent film because I believe that that's the life blood of film. It's about writers and directors who truly have their own vision, and that's hard.

  

  Steve Buscemi
  • I Believe
  • Directors
  • Independent Films

• As a director, your job is to make sure no one for any reason is taken out of the film. Sometimes it's impossible and sometimes things don't come out the way you want them to, but I think you have to work really hard at making the world engrossing and details are a major part of that.

  

  Cary Fukunaga
  • World
  • Taken
  • Reason

• Be what we make, and not who we are.

  

  Catherine Breillat
  • Directors
  • Filmmaking

• Once there are more African Americans and Asian Americans behind the scenes as producers, writers, and directors, I think more inclusive casting will happen.

  

  Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe
  • Happens
  • Scene
  • Behinds

• With an inexperienced director, a lot of times the days go on to 14, 15, 16 hours. It goes horrendously overtime. And because of the lack of money, they just keep you there, regardless of the hours.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Hours
  • Directors

• Gotta watch out for directors.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Directors
  • Watches

• I love Malcolm Lee and jumped on the opportunity to work with him as a director.

  

  Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe
  • Opportunity
  • Directors

• I'm lucky. I'm getting older with some directors who are getting older.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Lucky
  • Directors
  • Older

• A good actor's director, first of all, is prepared, so there's not an exorbitant amount of wasted footage.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Actors
  • Firsts
  • Prepared

• Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.

  

  Todd Solondz
  • Actors
  • Directors

• Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Directors
  • To Be
  • Pushed Up

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