Director Quotes - page 24

'Drive' came to me because the casting director knew my manager and called and said, 'You've always talked to me about Albert wanting to play the heavy. I think he should read this.' My ears just perked up. (Albert Brooks)
You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly. View quote
Albert Brooks
Steven Spielberg seems to have wanted to be a director from 13. He put his dog in a certain position and made him eat at four o'clock. He liked to direct it. But, to me, directing is tedious. Especially if you're acting in it. And I'm inherently lazy. View quote
Albert Brooks
I never wanted to be a director. View quote
Albert Brooks
There's always the pressure on the director of how to transition from one scene to another, especially when it can really be oblique on 'Game of Thrones.' View quote
Alex Graves
I think with the smaller-scale projects, the burden for success falls more squarely on the shoulders of the actors and the director and the script. View quote
Alexis Denisof
I produce the way I would love to be produced: In ways to create the best conditions to make your movie, but also to create a space in which the director calls the shots. View quote
Alfonso Cuaron
If you want to keep on being relevant as a director, I think you have to embrace the times. And with the times come technologies and formats. View quote
Alfonso Cuaron
I love working fast. I don't relish the director who wants to do 25 to 30 takes, or the actors who insist on doing 25 or 30 takes. View quote
Alfred Molina
I want to take roles that challenge me and I want to like the script and obviously feel connected with the director because the director to me is so important. View quote
Amy Smart
When I on set as a director I crazy. My temper is not that good. (Andrew Lau)
Everybody want famous, like me to be a famous director. View quote
Andrew Lau
Clint Eastwood is an extraordinary director because he knows the value of a buck. He knows where it will show on the screen. View quote
Angela Lansbury
Obviously in Art of Noise, I'm just part of the group, and when I do film scores, it's always in collaboration with the director and other people involved. View quote
Anne Dudley
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. View quote
Anne Parillaud
In theatre, there's the director, the writer, and below them the actor. In film, it's the actors who are most important. That goes against the grain for me. View quote
Anne-Marie Duff
David Fincher is a longtime friend. As a director, my wife had worked with him as a makeup artist when he would do Madonna videos years before, and his child and my oldest child were in preschool together, so we're kind of dad-friends through that, too. View quote
Anthony Edwards
I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write. View quote
Anthony Minghella
I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema. View quote
Antoine Fuqua
It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later. View quote
Antoine Fuqua
I was an actor as a kid in Boston. Then I went to art school with Brice Marden, the Massachusetts College of Art. So the hybrid of being an actor and artist is a director. (Arne Glimcher)
There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather than doctrine and worship are to determine the form of the Church. View quote
Arthur Middleton
If I get lucky and I can choose, I would always choose a really good story and screenplay, even if I don't know the director. If there's a good screenplay, there's a chance that something good is going to happen. View quote
Ayelet Zurer
If there's a good screenplay, there's a chance that something good is going to happen. If you don't have a brilliant screenplay, then you either have amazing actors who give you the chance to improve whatever is on the page, or an interesting director who has enough faith in the project that they can carry it through and get it somewhere. View quote
Ayelet Zurer
David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer. View quote
Adam McKay