I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.
James Cameron

It's usually the exact same three things which are, the Scripts, the Director and the Role those are the three things I look for and really any two of them, If I get two of them that's usually enough, but definitely those are the things I look for.
Matt Damon

On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.
Greta Scacchi

If you have a script that's not great, if you have a great director, you can make a great movie, but if you have a great script with a director who's not good, never are you going to have a good movie.
Monica Bellucci

You don't even need the director's judgement. It's too much.
Charlotte Gainsbourg

I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.
Aaron Eckhart

The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.
James Cameron

Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.
Ang Lee

If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
Michael Caine

I owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me.
Elia Kazan

I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well.
Patrick Stewart

Every casting director I've met is a woman.
Cameron Diaz

I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me.
Kevin Bacon

When I work, I work very hard. So I look to work with people who have that level of dedication. And I depend on that from everyone. From the director to my crews that I work with.
Tom Cruise

The director calmed me down and told me I was being too hard on myself. He went on to say that I wasn't quite as bad as I thought, but needed to tone things down a bit.
Dwight Schultz

I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director.
William Shatner

There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
Salma Hayek

I don't think anyone can really make up their mind and say, Now I'm going to be a director.
Judd Hirsch

As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.
Stanley Tucci

A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.
Douglas Sirk