Director Quotes - page 18

I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director. (Robert Carlyle)
I think one third of my work is with first-time directors because I think I should, you know? Really, the difference between a first-time director and a second- or third-time director - I mean there's no director who makes enough movies anyway - but if they're talented, they have it. And there is no movie that is perfect. View quote
Rutger Hauer
It doesn't matter who's directing, or who's doing the movie; there are a ton of things that can go wrong, and they do all the time. So you just have to figure out how to get through it, and then how the director finally puts it together, and then see what the audience takes from it. That's the most important thing to me. View quote
Rutger Hauer
It is only from the people I've had the good fortune to meet that I am learning the lessons to guide me. Baz Luhrmann, director of 'Moulin Rouge,' for example, has a childlike curiosity about the world. He doesn't pretend to know all the answers - quite the opposite, in fact. He asks loads of questions of everyone. View quote
Simon Sinek
The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a composer, the architect brings a sense of creativity to each building. View quote
Santiago Calatrava
The architect is very interesting because the architect is the commander, meaning the one who commands all the workers. The architect is also the music director and composer. He cannot play each instrument, but he needs to understand and embody the sense of each part. View quote
Santiago Calatrava
If I hadn't left Texas, I might not have met the director Terrence Malick, and I wouldn't have met my husband and I wouldn't have had the children that I've had. Life is interesting like that. View quote
Sissy Spacek
The director of 'Independence Day,' 'Godzilla' and 'The Patriot' has certain attributes, all of which are given full vent in 'The Day After Tomorrow.' He's crude, stupid, slick, cornball, predictable, laughable, relentless, trivial and, the sum of all these, ridiculous. He's never made a movie you could believe and he still hasn't. View quote
Stephen Hunter
In 'Beowulf,' director Robert Zemeckis uses a technique called 'motion capture' to conjure fantastical things, angles into action and sweeping vistas to stun your eyes and take your breath away. But what he hasn't mastered and what the technique can't do is this: emotion capture. View quote
Stephen Hunter
I want to be an author/director and I'm writing my second book now and I want to make a movie of it, and I hope I get to do this for the rest of my life. View quote
Stephen Chbosky
He was such a fabulous drama coach. What better person to have than Alfred Hitchcock? His work as a director was impeccable. I learned so much. (Tippi Hedren)
I wanted to work on a cable show and with a writer/director because that's a much more fulfilling and freeing experience, as an actor. View quote
Tom Ellis
I've always been a chameleon from book to book, like a director who does different films in the best possible way. View quote
Tony DiTerlizzi
I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious. View quote
William Peter Blatty
Former CIA director John Brennan, whose security clearance you revoked on Wednesday, is one of the finest public servants I have ever known. Few Americans have done more to protect this country than John. View quote
William H. McRaven
I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone. View quote
Famke Janssen
If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film. View quote
Famke Janssen
The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work. View quote
Famke Janssen
Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film. View quote
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire. View quote
Philip Seymour Hoffman
I will work with a director who has good material because at the end of the day, that's what counts. (Javier Bardem)
From my studies of genetics and neuroscience I have come to believe that people fall into four broad personality types - each influenced by a different brain chemical: I call them the Explorer, Builder, Director, and Negotiator. View quote
Helen Fisher
When I made 'Real Steel,' the director actually had the robots in the monitor, so he knew where everything was. So technically, there's been advancements. But at the end of the day, movies are about story and characters, so all the other stuff is great, but unless you have those two elements, then you've got nothing. View quote
Hugh Jackman
The film is a direct mirror of the director. If your director doesn't know how to dress, there will be an aesthetic of the film that won't come through - whether it's in the costumes if he doesn't know exactly what he wants or the look of the film. View quote
Channing Tatum
I'd wanted to be a director since I was five and had been making videos since I was a kid. Then YouTube came around during high school. I was making videos, and it was just a place to put them, like storage. View quote
Shane Dawson