Directors Quotes

• Bollywood directors are like cricketers where in one match you score a century, and in the next match, you are out for a duck! Moreover, very few directors are consistent in Bollywood.

  

  Sunny Deol
  • Directors
  • Bollywood
  • Cricketer

• Some directors don't tell you that it's not your fault, so you get increasingly depressed that you're not delivering what's required, and then you discover it's not you at all, it's something in the background that's out of focus.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Focus
  • Directors
  • Faults

• Sometimes the director will want you to write about the character, sometimes he'll want you to live in the location that the character is from or something like that, but I don't usually make a lot of notes or anything like that.

  

  Saoirse Ronan
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Sometimes

• 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

• I have been incredibly fortunate to be able to work with good directors and for me it's not really a plan each time I'm on a set with one of them; I think about what I can learn from them because I'm very aware that my filmmaking skills are very modest.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Alan Alda
  • Work
  • See
  • Worked

• 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

• 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 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

• 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

• It's always the story that interests me.

  

  Vincente Minnelli
  • Stories
  • Interest
  • Screenwriting

• 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

• 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

• 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

• You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • Strong
  • Film
  • Carpenter

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

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Actors
  • Directors
  • Nervous

• 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

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