Best Directors Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors.”

Thinking World Film Actors Directors Theater

“I have gone to Albany constantly in my capacity as budget director, because I don't think the way the transit authority works with the City of New York is very appropriate.”

Thinking Way Cities Gone New York Directors Authority Capacity Budgets Appropriate Albany

Author:Joe Lhota

“Although filmmaking is collaborative and involves trust, ultimately it is the director who holds the whole picture together in their head.”

Whole Together Actors Directors Movie Filmmaking Whole Picture

Author:Julia Leigh

“My junior year, I was in a play at school and five days before opening night, I still didn't know my lines. Opening night was a disaster. I was so embarrassed. The director made me work backstage for the rest of the performance.”

Knows Years Made Stills Play School Night Lines Five Directors Performances Disaster Opening Embarrassed Juniors Junior Year Opening Night

Author:Katie Leclerc

“I'm just trying to find a good project. Work with a good director, someone I really admire. Find a good role.”

Trying Roles Directors Projects Admire Good Directors

Author:Logan Lerman

“A good director has to be a captain - he has to work with a lot of people every day.”

People Directors Captains Good Directors

Author:Melanie Laurent

“I always choose my movie because of a director and a story and a, a character.”

Character Stories Directors

Author:Melanie Laurent

“Because I've made a film with such an amazing director as Tarantino, I'm much more conscious of working with good directors from now on, so that's what's important to me. I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.”

Want Made Important Bigs Care Film Directors Conscious What's Important Big Movie Tarantino Good Directors

Author:Melanie Laurent

“Every time a director calls me and says, 'If you practice a lot in two months, can you be an American?' And I always tell them, 'Well, maybe but I'm French. So it's going to be hard to be someone else.'”

Ifs Wells Two Hard Practice Months Directors Call Me Two Months

Author:Melanie Laurent

“Everybody just asks me 'Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?' First, I don't know. Second, I never dreamed about that; I just dreamed about making movies with Tarantino. So if I can make movies with a lot of amazing directors - yes.”

Ifs Knows Firsts I Can Asks Directors Hollywood Ask Me Tarantino Hollywood Movies

Author:Melanie Laurent

“Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.”

Different Offers Directors Obvious Different Things Obvious Things

Author:Malcolm McDowell

“The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.”

Feels Directors Comfortable Extras Nurturing

Author:Malcolm McDowell

“By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.”

Knows Firsts Film Psychology Week Directors Shooting Headings

Author:Jodie Foster

“You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you do and knows how to push you and bring out the best in you.”

Knows Know How Praying Involved Directors Sensibility Get Involved Hope And Pray

Author:Matthew Modine

“I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity.”

Want Trying Reason Stories Too Much Directors Pressure Sanity

Author:Rachel McAdams

“I'm very fortunate to have the privilege of working with directors like Bill Condon and Paul Thomas Anderson, who I think is one of the greatest filmmakers of our time.”

Thinking Directors Bills Privilege Fortunate Filmmaker Our Time

Author:Rami Malek

“Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility.”

Actors Directors Sensibility

Author:Jodie Foster

“As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of people's lives and how they intertwine.”

People Character Actors Focus Directors Solitary Ensemble

Author:Jodie Foster

“As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I can't be that serious about it. Being alone is a big theme in all my movies, both as a director and as an actress.”

I Can Stories Bigs Actors Serious Drama Directors Actresses Theme Story Of My Life

Author:Jodie Foster

“I think we've shot scenes from every angle directors can think of to make it look like different villages. I've directed a couple shows on that set and believe me, it's impossible not to duplicate some camera angles.”

Thinking Believe Looks Different Shows Impossible Couple Scene Directors Shots Cameras Village Believe In Me Angle Duplicate Different Angles Camera Angles

Author:Vic Morrow

“I'm a believer in trusting the director.”

Directors Believer

Author:B. J. Novak

“Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.”

People Different Moments Opportunity Decision Pieces Style Design Directors Productions Obsessed Visuals Different Peoples Different Styles Production Design

Author:B. J. Novak

“The work is the work. The work is not me. I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films. Even though it's my voice, I'm a storyteller.”

Film Directors Anonymity

Author:Frank Ocean

“The first draft is just a skeleton-just bare bones. It's like the very first rehearsal of a play, where the director moves the actors around mechanically to get a feel of the action.”

Feels Writing Firsts Play Action Moving Actors Directors Bones Rehearsal Skeletons

Author:Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

“We are interested in stifling the sale of this book. We believe that this can be best accomplished by refusing to be stampeded into giving it publicity...The less discussion there is concerning it the more sales resistance will be created. We therefore appeal to you to refrain from comment on this book...It is our conviction that a general compliance with this request will sound the warning to other publishing houses against engaging in this type of venture. (Signed) Richard E. Gutstadt, Director.”

“I don't know what it is, exactly, but there's a negative drag on film sets after the second week or so, a mutinous vibe because the infinite capacities of the directors and everybody else become quite finite and everybody's under the gun and it becomes work.”

Knows Film Week Directors Gun Capacity Negative Infinite Drag Finite Film Set

Author:Diane Lane

“I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.”

Behinds Directors Exciting Cameras I Realized Producers

Author:Dino De Laurentiis

“Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can't learn what's right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you.”

Actors Teach Taught Directors Instinct Paint Scripts Intuition Producers Mechanic

Author:Dino De Laurentiis

“To me the only real star of the movie is the writer. And I work with writers very closely, from outline to first draft and on to the seventh draft, whatever it takes. Then my job is to support the director to make the best movie we can. Some producers try to go past them, but my job is to support them.”

Trying Firsts Real Jobs Past Stars Support Directors Producers Outlines Whatever It Takes

Author:Dino De Laurentiis

“You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is.”

Men Long Made Remember Names Stars Loses Gone Talent Directors Silent Finished Screens Producers Titles Great Talent

Author:Ernst Lubitsch

“Producers generally don't like me; directors do, generally. Convincing the producers is hard. They can't see the commercial value behind such a face, nor would they get a commercial value, necessarily - and I don't mean that in a good way or a bad way.”

Way Mean Hard Faces Values Behinds Directors Like Me Producers Convincing Good Way Don't Like Me

Author:Amanda Plummer

“A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.”

Film Process Solitude Directors Editing Craziness Film Set

Author:Alan Parker

“You have to get it in your brain that you don't belong to yourself as an actor, but that you belong to the director who creates the character.”

Character Actors Brain Directors

Author:Anne Parillaud

“I've enjoyed my time in the game, whether it be managing Luton in the top flight, taking Spurs to Wembley or, as director of football, pinpointing players such as Jermain Defoe, Paul Robinson and Robbie Keane with real sell-on value.”

Real Values Games Player Football Directors Sells Flight Enjoyed My Time Spurs

Author:David Pleat

“I don't like actors who try to talk directors into making their part bigger and that's really lame.”

Trying Actors Directors Bigger Lame

Author:Franka Potente

“I don't really care where I work, actually, because you know making a movie is like living in movie world. There's such a secluded world, and the director is the king ruling the country, and everybody's building this little town to speak in symbolism.”

Knows World Littles Country Care Speak Building Kings Directors Towns Ruling Symbolism Little Towns Secluded

Author:Franka Potente

“Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that.”

Thinking Needs Children Remember Actors Directors Performances Tricks Child Actors

Author:Asia Argento

“There are directors who, their direction is high, but then when you challenge it, it crumbles. They can't back up what they're asking.”

Challenges Directors Asking

Author:Michael Pitt

“When actors give their input, it can be very ego-driven, and directors are scared of that.”

Giving Actors Directors Ego Scared Driven Input

Author:Michael Pitt

“There are two kinds of directors: There's the kind where two plus two equals four, and you have to help them figure it out. And then there's the kind that throws you in a room, locks the door, sets the house on fire and films it.”

Kind Two Helping Film House Rooms Fire Four Doors Figures Directors Plus Locks

Author:Michael Pitt

“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.”

Ends Directors Mediums Good Times Bottles Lightning Catching Fluidity

Author:Oliver Platt

“I was a bartender in New York and I overheard this girl saying she made $3000 doing a commercial. A kid at work told me, 'Hey, I know this director and he'd really like you!'. So I walked into this guy's office and was like 'I was thinking maybe I could make $3000' and he hired me for commercials, short films, like 15 jobs in a row.”

Thinking Knows Made Kids Jobs Film Guy Girl New York Like You Directors Office Hey This Guy This Girl Bartender Short Films Really Like You

Author:Pauley Perrette

“George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go.”

Should Has Beens Enough Culture Changed Directors Agency

Author:Richard Perle

“I was thrown in the deep end at 18 when I got cast in a movie that I didn't audition for. The director just sort of found me and put me in a film, so the decision was really made for me.”

Made Ends Film Found Decision Directors Casts Thrown Auditions

Author:Teresa Palmer

“Directors tend to be more underrated than overrated because it's a quiet job and people don't really understand it.”

People Jobs Quiet Directors Overrated Underrated

Author:Todd Phillips

“I take it very seriously, music. I think it's one of the tools that a director has with which to kind of paint. The right music can sometimes do five pages of scripted dialogue.”

Thinking Kind Sometimes Five Directors Pages Tools Paint Dialogue

Author:Todd Phillips

“I find that all great directors, and I would include Ben Affleck and Clint Eastwood in that, they have great confidence. And with great confidence comes great freedom for the actor.”

Actors Directors Great Freedom Great Confidence

Author:Amy Ryan

“I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.”

Process Enjoy Creative Directors Paper Creative Process Really Amazing Visualizing Words On Paper

Author:Alfonso Ribeiro

“I love movie directors. I don't care who it is.”

Care Directors Don't Care I Don't Care Movie Love Movie Director

Author:Brett Ratner

“Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases.”

Energy Issues Environment Source Involved Directors International My Time Sustainability Devoted Laboratory Fractions Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases Energy Sources New Energy

Author:Burton Richter

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