Directors Quotes

• The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.

  

  Hedy Lamarr
  • Men
  • Sleep
  • Actors

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

  

  Elliot Morley
  • Energy
  • Company
  • Engages

• 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

• 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 think all directors should be animators.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Directors
  • Animators

• Directors work 10 times harder than anyone else. Get paid a quarter.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Harder
  • Paid
  • Quarters

• Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a certain effect. But to me the most valuable commodity for a movie to create is a feeling of life, and that's what A Hard Day's Night has in spades.

  

  Michael Patrick Jann
  • Feelings
  • Cameras
  • Valuable

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Viola Davis
  • Teacher
  • Directors

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• It's impossible to put your finger on what that is exactly other than protecting the environment that the actors get to find the scenes and build the scenes and invest in them. I think that's key and that's what I've learned from all the great directors I've worked with.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Environment
  • Actors
  • Learned

• Well, it gives me the opportunity to make the movies that I want to do, because L'Oreal pays me very well. Also it means that I can work with great directors. My last commercial was directed by Erick Zonca, who made 'Dream Life of Angels.' And finally, it doesn't take up a lot of my time.

  

  Virginie Fernandez
  • Opportunity
  • Angels
  • Dream Life

• I'm happy to have a physical part in 'High Tension,' in 'Hereafter,' and in a lot of French movies and Belgian movies. But its not by chance directors choose me for physical parts. I like to do that. I like to tell a story also with the body. It's important, because you can tell a lot of things.

  

  Cecile de France
  • Important
  • Body
  • Chance

• 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

• As actors, we have the opportunity to work with many directors. Directors only work with themselves and other actors. They never know what it is like to work with another director. So that relationship that one has with a director is entirely always the king.

  

  Tom Hardy
  • Opportunity
  • Knows
  • Actors

• I have many valentines. My mom and my sister and my directors. I got calls from all of them. And my friends. I respect what Valentine's Day stands for because it is about love

  

  Michelle Trachtenberg
  • Friends
  • Directors
  • Valentine

• I had no plans to be a director.

  

  Mike Figgis
  • Directors
  • Plans

• 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

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