Directors Quotes

• 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

• 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

• Lloyd Richards is another director who was like that, who was a teacher.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Teacher
  • Directors

• When a director narrates a character, I find it normal to ask questions about the character's background, mood swings, eccentricities, behaviour... I do this to make my performance relatable. Directors who don't know their characters well find it difficult to answer these questions and, hence, find me annoying.

  

  Radha Ravi
  • Character
  • Performance
  • Narrates

• The advice you give to young directors for sure is to go out and become some version of a successful movie actor. Do that first and say yes to people like Terrence Malick and Clint Eastwood and Woody Allen when they come and offer you movies. It's a great front row seat to filmmaking.

  

  Sean Penn
  • Advice
  • Actors
  • Filmmaking

• Carbon trading engages finance directors. It takes the issue of energy efficiency right to the top of the company.

  

  Elliot Morley
  • Energy
  • Company
  • Engages

• 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 love the work, I love being in front of the camera and working with actors and directors and creating something. For me, it's like learning everyday.

  

  Estella Warren
  • Learning
  • Actors
  • I Love

• 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

• 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

• An accent like mine and a face like mine, I think a lot of the time it's easy for casting directors to just stick me in as a bad boy, but 'Being Human' took a risk on me - bless 'em - and I'm not that bad boy no more.

  

  Michael Socha
  • Human
  • Directors
  • Casting

• 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

• You'd put yourself in a play and get to know the system and learn how to be directed, and then you could be a director. So, I've just always done it. It was always a hobby. The funny thing was that when I started to get paid to do it as a professional job, I lost my hobby. I don't know what to do. I have to take up something else now.

  

  David Oakes
  • Lost
  • Jobs
  • Hobbies

• One thing about being a stand-up is it's a one-man show. You gotta do everything. You're the producer, writer, director, and the actor. You just gotta be out there and perform and give your all. It's such an honest form of art that it just taught me so much, and it kind of prepared me for manhood at an early age.

  

  Nick Cannon
  • Giving
  • Kind
  • Actors

• But I did on projects that I produced, that I directed, that I acted in because it was important. I want to be a filmmaker. I don't want to be an actor who directs, I want to be a director. I want to be a filmmaker. So that's a big difference.

  

  Eriq La Salle
  • Important
  • Actors
  • Differences

• A good script and a good brief from the director is enough to let me know what is expected of me.

  

  Sanjay Dutt
  • Enough
  • Directors
  • Expected

• To me it's like, every time I'm a director, like today, you're the captain of the ship, so you better dress like it. You're the host of the party.

  

  Mike Mills
  • Today
  • Party
  • Dresses

• I guess I'm not jaded because I still believe that there are good films out there, and there are great directors, and there are great writers. It just takes a little bit more perseverance and a little bit more time to find [them].

  

  Elijah Wood
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• I like directors who come ready to challenge you to ask the right questions about your character, and I know that directors appreciate that in actors as well.

  

  Joshua Henry
  • Character
  • Challenge
  • Directors

• I was lucky that I was getting exposed to a lot of different kinds of films, and I was liking them all. So it seemed logical to me that you could - as in the style of the studio directors of the 30s and 40s - jump from one genre to the next, with the same satisfaction.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Films
  • Directors
  • Satisfaction

• It's not often that you get a director, singing the praises of his executives.

  Nick Willing
  • Singing
  • Directors
  • Executives

• Sometimes, the actors are thrilled to have visitors because they're just waiting most of the day. It's the directors that are a little busy.

  

  Rebecca Eaton
  • Sometimes
  • Waiting
  • Littles

• It's hard on an actor when you have to do a scene 45 times and you know damn well that three of the angles a director is shooting will never make it into the movie.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Actors
  • Scene
  • Angle

• Like any other actor, I want to work with good directors, and I always look for good scripts. I've had to say no to some people; I suspect that's the reason I'm called arrogant.

  

  Nivin Pauly
  • Actor
  • Directors
  • Scripts

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