Directors Quotes

• I can count on one hand the directors who actually directed me.

  

  Eric Stoltz
  • Hand
  • Directors
  • Count

• It's strange - some directors are really talented but they can be so precious when it comes to letting you be a part of it.

  

  Sonny John Moore
  • Strange
  • Directors

• If someone suddenly lost their director the day before shooting and wanted me to step in, I'd be willing to. But I'd do brain surgery the same way. I'm always up for something new.

  

  Carter Burwell
  • Lost
  • Brain
  • Steps

• Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our work, and many times are not even credited.

  

  Michael Apted
  • Creative
  • Benefits
  • Ongoing

• Honestly, I look at the project and I look at the people attached and I look at the director. If it's a role that I feel will help me, as an actor, then I'll definitely take it.

  

  Marina Ann Hantzis aTelecine
  • People
  • Helping
  • Actors

• For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Favorite
  • Giants
  • Kurosawa

• I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision or a watered-down communal one?

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Trust
  • Directors
  • Artistic vision

• David Fincher is one of the best directors I know, so I'm really curious to see it. Really curious, and I want to hear Daniel have the Swedish accent.

  

  Michael Nyqvist
  • Curious
  • Accents
  • Swedish

• There's very few directors that know what that rehearsal's for. And often it's just about calming down the director. If he could see it or she sees it, she goes oh, it's going to be okay.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Directors
  • Okay
  • Calming

• As an actor you're only as good as the things you're offered. And there just weren't any female directors offering me things. So when you dissect that, you realize there aren't women offering you things because they don't have the opportunities. I work to raise money for women's cancers; I use my voice for violence against women.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Women
  • Actor
  • Opportunities

• I like bold directors. I like directors that go against the norm in a way.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Way
  • Directors
  • Bold

• I tell people all the time that producers, writers, and directors really don't know what they want until it walks into the room - you have to show them what they want. Everyone is rooting for you when you walk into the room. Everyone wants you to be good because it means their day is over!

  

  Eric Stonestreet
  • Show
  • Producers
  • Rooting

• I'm trying to work only with established, respected directors. I took a lot of bad scripts and worked for a lot of lazy directors, and it was discouraging to go to the screenings and see that the director had added nothing, the editor had added nothing, there was nothing to see.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Trying
  • Lazy
  • Scripts

• Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.

  

  Tony Gilroy
  • Film
  • Actors
  • Poor

• I feel like a lot of the young actors that are just coming up are really good. I think directors are directing better.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Thinking
  • Feels
  • Actors

• My advice for other female directors: don't think of your gender as a handicap. Don't think about it at all. Just tell the best story you can, and don't stop until you do.

  

  Reed Morano
  • Stop
  • Advice
  • Story

• On a simple level, you need directors who are good at action and can choreograph an action scene, but you need them to also have that sense of fun and that sense of movement and that ability to get the actors to really respond to the material in the way that you want them to. It's a very big thing.

  

  Adrian Hodges
  • Sense
  • Directors
  • Choreograph

• Unfortunately they're practically all dead. And many were my closest associates: friends, co-directors, whatever you want to say - my partners in crime.

  

  William Eggleston
  • Crime
  • Directors
  • Partners

• I like directors that give their composer a juicy role in their films. Some films have a small, minor role for music, some have a larger role.

  

  Cliff Martinez
  • Music
  • Small
  • Role

• Some friends of mine who are actors feel directing shuts them down and kills all their impulses, but the worst thing for me is if I feel a director hasn't noticed.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Friends
  • Actors
  • Worst

• I'm always being told by directors that I add chemistry to scenes, so I mean how difficult could it be?

  

  Zach Braff
  • Mean
  • Directors
  • Add

• Usually when you meet with a director, just meeting them after you've seen something you're interested in, they say, "Oh I'd love to work together," and sometimes you never hear from them again.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Together
  • Sometimes
  • Meetings

• I never worry about what they think about me. Because I feel so far away from what my Italian colleagues have done that I almost automatically become an isolated director.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • Feels
  • Directors
  • Colleagues

• I was lucky, life provided a chance to work with great directors and actors.

  

  Ornella Muti
  • Life
  • Chance
  • Actors

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