Directors Quotes

• All these directors who do different locations forget that one room can be shot from a million different angles and a million different ways. When I direct a movie, I'm going to use that.

  

  Michael Pitt
  • Different
  • Forget
  • Direct

• 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

• James DeMonaco is one of my favorite directors I’ve ever worked with. I think he shoots really well and all that, but the work environment he creates – he makes everyone feel respected, he makes everyone feel appreciated, and he’s a true collaborator.

  

  Zach Gilford
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • True

• 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

• It's always the story that interests me.

  

  Vincente Minnelli
  • Stories
  • Interest
  • Screenwriting

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

  

  Alan Alda
  • Work
  • See
  • Worked

• 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

• I have done films where we all thought the director didn't know what he was doing and it is going to be a gobble gobble turkey. And you go and watch it and it is great.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Great
  • Done
  • Film

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

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Protect
  • Directors
  • Investors

• 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

• 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

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

  

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

• The nice thing about being a director is that I can say, "I can only get into the room after the kids are at school, and I have to be back for dinner. And they're coming for lunch."

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • School
  • Kids
  • Nice

• So I'm here, and not being one for missed opportunities, I made a list of the casting directors in New York and mark off the ones I've already met over the years. The few remaining I asked my agent and manager, "See if you can set up some meetings while I'm here."

  

  William Mapother
  • Meetings
  • Agents
  • Casting

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I like meeting directors. It can be helpful because sometimes when you meet filmmakers you find out if you like them and if they like you, and that is important in terms of considering a role. Choosing a role is all about whether I relate to the role and the story really. That's the criteria.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Important
  • Role
  • Filmmaker

• Women think in Sirk's films. Something which has never struck me with other directors. None of them. Usually women are always reacting, doing what women are supposed to do, but in Sirk they think. It's something that has to be seen.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Women
  • Always
  • Directors

• You don't have your film finished when you have your director's cut finished. It's just a bunch of green screen.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Green
  • Cutting
  • Directors

• Another mistake a director can make is not to be prepared, so you get there on the day to shoot the scene, and they don't know how it should be blocked, and they're not clear on how they want to do a scene.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Mistake
  • Scene
  • Clear

• There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Knows
  • Directors

• 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

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