Directors Quotes

• The directors are supposed to be the stewards of their shareholders' investments, but too often act at the behest of the advisory and management companies that run the funds' day-to-day operations.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Management
  • Investments
  • Shareholders

• I've had the opportunity to work with so many great directors. Different styles, as well, like Gus Van Sant. He just does the casting and the milieu and let's you do your thing, quietly. Bertolucci, who can talk to you about your internal world in quite a creative way or just say, 'Well, put your hand over here.'

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • World
  • Work
  • Great

• I'd worked with directors who wouldn't collaborate. Then I've also worked with directors who didn't really know what they wanted. I knew I didn't want to be either one of those guys - or girls.

  

  Stuart Townsend
  • Wanted
  • Directors
  • Collaborate

• What's interesting is that producers, directors and writers tend to typecast me in terms of whatever movie they've seen me in most recently.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Producers

• These directors clearly failed to protect the interest of investors.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Protect
  • Directors
  • Investors

• It doesn't matter if you work with an Oscar winner or if you work with an unknown actor. There is always a collaboration between the director and the actors, and you always have to listen as the actors have to listen to you as a director.

  

  Baran Odar
  • Work
  • Actors
  • Unknown

• As an actor, youre always nervous as to what a director will do with something.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Actors
  • Directors
  • Nervous

• It's always the story that interests me.

  

  Vincente Minnelli
  • Stories
  • Interest
  • Screenwriting

• If there is one thing that, as a director, you don't want to be a part of, it's a group. It's the same thing with music. I don't want to be a part of a scene. Just leave me alone. It's just my nature, and it's nothing against the people that are in that group, but I just like to be left alone.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • People
  • Music
  • Nature

• I'm shy to call myself a director still. When someone says, 'What do you do for a living?' I don't know if I've earned that.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Knows
  • Stills
  • Ifs

• Directors are the captains of the ship, and it's your job as the lead actor to make sure that the rest of the cast understand that by doing whatever he says.

  

  George Clooney
  • Actors
  • Casts
  • Captains

• I've always felt it's the directors purview to say what; it's the actor's purview to say how. It's not good for an actor to have the big picture in mind - it bollocks you up. An actor's purview is the tiny little... We measure our performance in seconds.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Mind
  • Actors
  • Littles

• As an actor, I know immediately if I'm saying a word that doesn't feel right coming out of my mouth, and I know how to change it. But as a director watching something, or even as a writer reading a script, sometimes it's not always clear what needs to be fixed.

  

  Scott Foley
  • Reading
  • Sometimes
  • Feels

• Some directors, like Stevens [George Stevens], shoot full circle, 360 degrees, and that's what's right for them. I generally shoot at about a seven to one ratio. But part of that is because I've worked on every screenplay, so I'm further along in the visual concept.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Directors
  • Concept
  • Screenplay

• There are directors, and I think this is true of all directors, it would be true if I was a director - If the actor didn't want to do what I was suggesting, I would let him do it his way, and then I would say to him, "Just give me one where you do what the director wants", and that, of course, is the take that's used.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Thinking
  • True
  • Giving

• Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Work
  • See
  • Worked

• First of all, Sam Fuller left a group of extraordinary movies that are unique, that are "Fuller-esque," as one might say, which makes them stand apart from any other director's films.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Film
  • Unique
  • Extraordinary

• I am very happy that I am getting to play such layered and demanding characters. I feel blessed that directors are trusting me with such roles.

  

  Vicky Kaushal
  • Characters
  • Roles
  • Trusting

• My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while framing a better shot.

  

  Adrian Anthony Gill
  • Father
  • Death
  • Directors

• All of the directors I've worked with I've gotten along with very well.

  

  Trevor Rabin Cinema
  • Directors
  • Gotten

• I love supporting emerging voices, and new writers and directors. I love engaging an audience in a way that doesn't have to involve me, personally, and yet still generates an experience for groups of people.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • People
  • Experience
  • Voice

• It's possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can't make a good movie from a bad script.

  

  George Clooney
  • Movie
  • Scripts
  • Screenwriting

• In the film work, I love to work mainly from the script and from talking to the directors, so a lot of the music, big portions of the scores that I've made, have been composed before the movies were even shot.

  

  Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla Bajofondo
  • Work
  • Music
  • Movies

• Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.

  

  Anthony Oliver "A. O." Scott
  • Real
  • Funny
  • Authenticity

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