Top Directors Quotes Collection
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It's strange - some directors are really talented but they can be so precious when it comes to letting you be a part of it.Collection: Directors
Everything is the director's fault - you can quote me on that. There are no excuses.Collection: Directors
The hardest thing for everyone, for the writer, for the director and certainly for the actors, is not to panic when they're doing a certain line for the tenth time because everything ceases to be funny after it's been repeated.Collection: Directors
Ever director has at least 10 bad films in them.Collection: Directors
There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directorsCollection: Directors
A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.Collection: Directors
I am the best film director in the world.Collection: Directors
The best films are because of nobody but the director.Collection: Directors
To the audience it doesn't really matter how much the director struggled with an actor. It's the result that counts.Collection: Directors
Each one of my films is personal; each one of my films is emotionally autobiographical. And I like directors who do that.Collection: Directors
Before I go off and direct a movie, I always look at four films. They tend to be The Seven Samurai, Lawrence Of Arabia, It's A Wonderful Life and The Searchers.Collection: Directors
Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.Collection: Directors
The relationship between an actress and her director is often a very close one.Collection: Directors
There are some actresses who cannot function on the set without having a close relationship with their directors. Their way of communicating with the director is through intimacy. It doesn't necessarily have to do with any physical act; it has more to do with achieving a closeness that they find very valuable.Collection: Directors
Once you crack the script, everything else follows.Collection: Directors
I love working with women - I love women - and we need more women directors. We need more feminine sensibilities in movies.Collection: Directors
I'm like a movie director, so wherever I feel that I need to go over this type of beat, that's what I'm going to do, that's where I'm going to go.Collection: Directors
Somebody said that I'm a bit like a sponge, grabbing things here and there, soaking stuff up. [As a director] you have to be, really.Collection: Directors
Personally Im very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors.Collection: Directors
One thing I know is that I don't want to be a director for hire, making genre films.Collection: Directors
Great directors turn in mediocre work and first-time directors turn in exceptional work. No matter how good a person can talk about what he wants, you never know.Collection: Directors
I want to get into the theater. I really wanted to be a theater director, but I turned out to be a movie director.Collection: Directors
To me, one of the main things that a director does is create the tone of his movie.Collection: Directors
I like working with a first time director. I'm more likely to work with a first time director than I am a second time director.Collection: Directors
Directors love to do music, they've been doing that all along.Collection: Directors
If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie.Collection: Directors
Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work.Collection: Directors
I was so disappointed [with movie Forsaken], but maybe I hadn't talked enough with the director. I don't know. But, Kiefer worked it out. Kiefer took it and re-edited it. I don't know whether he talks about that. He's probably more discreet than I am because Jon is a friend of his. Now, it fulfills what I was hoping for, and what we were working on and doing.Collection: Directors
I prefer to have playback, but sometimes, you can't have that under most circumstances. First, it is expensive because you need a playback operator and secondly, it threatens a lot of directors. I only watch my performance. I see what is necessary for me so that I can see it right at the moment and I can fix it. That appeals to me a great deal.Collection: Directors
In France, I am so free. I have more freedom than most American directors could dare to even imagine.Collection: Directors
In the '90s, indie movies could get financing, because financers gave money straight to directors... Now it's a different system. Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system.Collection: Directors
As a director, I never feel that I have the answers.Collection: Directors
When you're a lead role, I'm learning that you set a tone for the movie in a way, like a director does, or like other actors do. But it seems like you set a mood on set.Collection: Directors
I'm always very interested in going and discovering a young director's films.Collection: Directors
I always used to associate good directors as being ones who are totally extreme and have an answer for everything and there are no loose ends.Collection: Directors
The first thing I ask when Im offered a part is, Whos the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles.Collection: Directors
In my case, when you dive into a role, to do well and for you to do well in it, you have to put an enormous amount of faith in the director. But you also have to decide you're so interested in the material, this director, his work, and his process, that you don't care about the outcome.Collection: Directors
Every time I act in something, I learn something about what the director is doing. One feeds the other.Collection: Directors
You often have a great director who's like, "Well, actually I don't even want to reveal you until the end of this scene" or something like that and it totally changes everything that you thought it was going to be.Collection: Directors
If someone were to hire me for a film they'd be getting a certain kind of package, that's for sure, a certain set of tools. But I would listen to the director.Collection: Directors
Realizing that my surroundings were going to be built around me, the way that I performed, we helped the directors through the performance, to create the world that we were going to be seen in. I was very fascinated with that.Collection: Directors
Be what we make, and not who we are.Collection: Directors
Cast PURPOSE as the lead in your movie and you will help God, your Director, produce a masterwork.Collection: Directors
When Shana Alexander interviewed me for Life magazine in 1952, she gave up after 4,000. At one time or another, I've worked for every studio in Hollywood, for almost every director with most of the actors and actresses.Collection: Directors
Directors, like actors, get typecast.Collection: Directors
I knew that I always wanted to be a filmmaker, an actor, a writer and a director, that was always my plan.Collection: Directors
I thought it was a huge conflict of interest to be the director and the subject - it's very sketchy territory to be in. I've seen what's happened to other directors who have done that.Collection: Directors
As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.Collection: Directors
I can't act. I simply must be myself, do the things that seem natural to me. When I get with a director who wants me to act, I'll be lost.Collection: Directors
I can make fried tofu, boiled tofu, stuffed tofu. Cutlets and other fancy stuff, that's for other directors.Collection: Directors