Directors Quotes

Personally I'm very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors.
Mark Mothersbaugh

Happy, Working, Behind

When I first started acting in movies - as probably a lot of naive young actors do - I made a list of directors that I wanted to work with and sent it to my agent at the time.
Justin Bartha

Work, Time, Movies

Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.
Barry Pepper

Prison, Guard, Casting

The directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity of the medium and are interested in catching lightning in a bottle.
Oliver Platt

Time, Good, End

The popular image that Hollywood is ruined by difficult prima donna actors is nonsense. They're certainly very nice to directors. I can't say the same about producers, who I found difficult, paranoid, and certifiably insane, mostly.
Nigel Cole

Nice, Same, Difficult

When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.
Jacques Rivette

History, Young, Around

I guess I like a lot of directors. Or at least I try to.
Jacques Rivette

As you can probably tell, I like films and directors that bring a totally unique style to filming action.
John Foster

Tell, Action, Unique

There aren't many American directors here trying to direct a Japanese yakuza film. When you combine that with the fact that I don't speak much Japanese and this was an independent film I was financing myself - people were curious about what I was doing.
John Foster

Trying, Here, American

I get to play a great character while working with great actors and great directors on a great show.
Harry Hamlin

Great, Character, Play

I don't think about the gender thing very much. But when I speak at schools, I've had female students say to me afterwards, "I never envisioned myself being a director, since I've never seen women do it." But after seeing me, they can picture themselves directing, so maybe we'll see more female directors.
Jennifer Yuh Nelson

Women, After, Speak

I worked for John Ford, Howard Hawks, Henry Hathaway, Raoul Walsh - I worked for some real good directors.
Richard Farnsworth

Good, Real, Worked

But I don't really care for directors flaring up and trying to humble some actor, which they would do to try and make an example out of them so everybody else would stay on the ball - and David wasn't anything like that.
Richard Farnsworth

Care, Humble, Trying

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

Life, Feeling, Hard

It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.
Arthur Cohn

Time, Great, Among

I love working with new directors. There's so much drive and effort. It still comes down to the character for me, but if it's a character I really want to play, I would never not do the project because of a new director.
Pauley Perrette

Love, Character, Down

L.A. can be pretty insane because there's so much show business here, but I also know a lot of kids who grew up in Manhattan who are some of the most normal, nicest people I know. Casting directors always say Chicago people are just nicer.
Matt Walsh

Business, Pretty, Here

Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine.
Kenneth Anger

Famous, Getting, Started

Now, therefore, the Directors of the company are hereby ordered to see that precautions are taken to make travel on said railroad perfectly safe by using a screw with at least twenty-four inches diameter.
Joshua A. Norton

Travel, Said, Company

Todd Solondz is one of my favorite directors.
Eric Wareheim

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 LeDoyen

Life, Work, Time

Other writers, producers, and directors of low-budget films would often put down the film they were making, saying it was just something to make money with. I never felt that. If I took the assignment, I'd give it my best shot.
Roger Corman

Money, Best, Saying

The casting directors that were aware of 'The Real World' looked at me as a joke. It was so hard to get away from that.
Jamie Chung

Real, Hard, Away

What I always meant by that was that I do believe that a lot of directors, and writers, and sometimes producers just lose their edge because they haven't seen anybody or talked to anybody or been with anybody who isn't a kind of replica of themselves for a long period of time.
Buck Henry

Time, Long, Sometimes

I've always said to people that auteurism is nice, but it's hypothetical, and gradually you learn how much or how little influence different directors had.
Andrew Sarris

Nice, Different, Said

I think it's easy for directors to stay fresh more than actors, especially once an actor becomes a star. It's hard for Russell Crowe to walk down a street or take a subway. I can fly coach.
Michael Mann

Hard, Down, Easy

I mean, I'm willing to do anything with Chris Chulack - he's one of my favorite directors I've ever worked with, and I just think he's a fantastic man, and a great creator, and a good friend.
C. Thomas Howell

Good, Great, Friend

I feel like actors, having spent a lot of time on movie sets, tend to make decent directors, because they've been there, they know what they're doing, they've seen it done right, they've seen it done wrong, and they feel comfortable. There's not a lot of chin-scratching and wondering what your next move is.
C. Thomas Howell

Time, Done, Wrong

Directors are never in short supply of girlfriends.
Bob Fosse

I'd never really done comedy before 'Community,' so getting to work day in and day out with all these great people, directors, writers, and actors, I feel like I've learned a lot.
Gillian Jacobs

Work, Great, Done

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