Directors Quotes

• 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

• A lot of times, directors don't know how to speak to actors, or writers don't know how to communicate.

  

  Michael Mosley
  • Directors
  • Writers
  • Communicate

• 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

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

  

  Michael Caine
  • Promise
  • Casts
  • Officers

• 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

• 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 think you have to have different tools for each job - you know producer is very different from a director and very different from an actor.

  

  Renee O'Connor
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Jobs

• In some way, the relationship between a director and an actor is personal.

  

  Ryan Gosling
  • Way
  • Actors
  • Directors

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Lucky
  • Directors
  • Older

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Harry Hamlin
  • Character
  • Actors
  • Show

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Sergio Leone
  • Force
  • Firsts
  • 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

• I worked for a lot of directors.

  

  Tony Gilroy
  • Directors

• Gotta watch out for directors.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Directors
  • Watches

• Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.

  

  Todd Solondz
  • Actors
  • Directors

• 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

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

  

  Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe
  • Opportunity
  • Directors

• 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

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