Director Quotes - page 10

Some of the screen's best moments were realized because a director went against all reason, all logic. No matter how incredible a story seems, it can be made credible. If you feel an insane idea strongly enough, you've usually got something. (Rouben Mamoulian)
But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor. View quote
Ray Walston
When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director. View quote
Rebecca De Mornay
I'm not a betting woman, but I have $50 on Secretariat with an old director friend of mine. View quote
Shirley Booth
The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film. View quote
Shirley Knight
And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration. View quote
Sidney Blumenthal
I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time. View quote
Sam Mendes
As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate. View quote
Sam Mendes
As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over. View quote
Stanley Tucci
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. View quote
Stanley Tucci
As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers. (Stephen Frears)
The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you. View quote
Stephen Rea
A lot of the music editing job is communication and working out what a director really wants the music to be. View quote
Steven Price
My aunt put my cousins into a children's modelling agency, then my mum did it with us. Me and my sister got a few TV adverts, which was good pocket money. A director saw photos of me and asked me to do a short film. View quote
Sullivan Stapleton
Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director. View quote
Sydney Pollack
We had a very energetic floor manager and he was always jumping around all over the place. The director would send down messages like, Can you tell that actor to calm down? View quote
Sarah Sutton
Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment. View quote
Scott Caan
I didn't really know what I wanted to do, and then I got this call from a casting director in Los Angeles. She remembered me from something years before, and she called my mom wanting me to audition for this thing. View quote
Scott Speedman
One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what one has experienced and understood about the human condition as it relates to the role one has been hired to portray. View quote
Tom Skerritt
Just being hired by a great director is complimentary. View quote
Tom Skerritt
Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director. (Tom Skerritt)
If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance. View quote
Trevor Nunn
The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable. View quote
Trevor Nunn
I really want to meet and work with JJ Abrams. Everyone talks about what a nice director he is, and he has kids and stuff, so he sounds really awesome, not to mention he makes awesome movies. View quote
Ty Simpkins
But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is. View quote
Taylor Hackford