Directors Quotes

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

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

• 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

• 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

• You really have to bring your game and know what you want to do. And then, there are the producers and the writers and the director on the other side of the glass, and what they want. You have to be malleable to what's going to work, and you have to stay in the framework of the context.

  

  Adrian Pasdar Band from TV
  • Games
  • Glasses
  • Framework

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I think when you work with really wonderful directors who have a really strong vision, it lets you as an artist set the tone for your own career.

  

  Sarah Gadon
  • Career
  • Artist
  • Directors

• 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

• I rode it once, which was up the driveway in the opening credits of the show. I didn't know how to stop it. I actually nearly killed the director of photography, and I smashed into the sound truck.

  

  Henry Winkler
  • Photography
  • Credit
  • Truck

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

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Knows
  • Directors

• Every day is still exciting. I have like a very good system worked out with my editor. Some directors are in there every day, sitting there in the room with the editor. I lose perspective incredibly quickly, and so what I do is I watch...I come in the room and give very specific notes and then I go back to my house or in my office and I watch the dailies.

  

  Nicholas Stoller
  • House
  • Perspective
  • Office

• Sometimes a director is making three films. Perhaps he is shooting a film in Madras and a film in Bombay and he can't leave Madras as some shooting has to be done, so he directs by telephone. The shooting takes place. On schedule.

  

  Satyajit Ray
  • Sometimes
  • Film
  • Bombay

• Sometimes directors feel a script needs something, but they're not sure what it is, so they show it to a friend; if the friend is a writer, he ends up kicking around with that script for a while.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Up
  • Friend
  • Sometimes

• I just think there are a lot of celebrities who don't feel that they have a voice. A lot of actors come from a place of fear, and that's just a general statement about actors. You're terrified the casting director won't like you, you're terrified the producer won't like you, you're terrified the director won't like you, and on and on.

  

  George Clooney
  • Actors
  • Producers
  • Casting

• 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 long as you have a director, that's your feedback. It's the director telling you, "Okay. That was great! Okay. Can we add a little? Can you tweak it like this? Can you make it more high pitched? Can you give it a little growl?"

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Great
  • Long
  • High

• I think if I were asked to do as many as fifty takes, I would assume the director had no idea what he wanted, and was just hoping, eventually, to see it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Thinking
  • Ideas
  • Directors

• 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

• The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Question
  • Trust
  • Guts

• Most of the films are only 60% taken, rest is a director's input.

  

  Akshay Kumar
  • Rest
  • Taken
  • Film

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