Director Quotes - page 30

Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as a life. (Jason Reitman)
And as a director, you make 1,000 decisions a day, mostly binary decisions: yes or no, this one or that one, the red one or the blue one, faster or slower. And it's the culmination of those decisions that define the tone of the film and whether or not it moves people. View quote
Jason Reitman
I've been very, very lucky in my career, in my life - from day one. When aspiring directors say, 'what's your advice?' first I say, 'be born the son of a famous director. It's invaluable.' View quote
Jason Reitman
Long before I ever started acting, believe it or not, I always knew I wanted to be a director. View quote
Jay Baruchel
My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and shoot it in such a way that it will cut together. And how to design the style and tone. View quote
Jay Roach
I want to work with a director who becomes my brother, my father, for two months. You give yourself over to that person. View quote
Jean Dujardin
In France, I have lots of opportunities. Maybe now I'll be offered films in America. It's the encounter, with the director and the story that counts. View quote
Jean Dujardin
As a director, try to be humble and not to overdo it, not overcoverage and over-covering the scene. View quote
Jean-Marc Vallee
In a career, when you hit 40 and you've done a lot of this and that, you want to try some new things. I feel like that as a director, too, from one film to the other. View quote
Jean-Marc Vallee
It was difficult every ten days having a new director. I'm a real collaborator and, as an actor, I want to be directed. It's hard for me to shift gears. View quote
Jeanne Tripplehorn
When you see a bad romantic comedy, you see the script, the director, and the actors trying to create this warmth and this pathos and this feeling that you care about them. That cannot be manufactured - it's either there or it isn't. (Jeff Garlin)
By every measure, John Kennedy's sex life was compulsive and reckless. At one level, it had clear public consequences. Knowledge of Kennedy's behavior gave FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover absolute job security, as well as the potential power to derail Kennedy's re-election had he survived assassination. View quote
Jeff Greenfield
The joy for me of television is the sort of family feeling of being involved with an ensemble - the cast and the crew and the director of photography and the guys in the camera truck - and you're all coming together. There's a great feeling when that is a successful unit, a successful family. View quote
Jeffrey Pierce
I think the most important thing for an actor is reading the script and trying to figure out if you can play that character well. The last thing on my mind is if the director made good movies previously. It's not my job to know if that director's last movie was any good - it's my job to know if I can play the role. View quote
Jesse Eisenberg
I'm the girl that waits for the director to say, 'I like that,' or 'Can you boost it up?,' or 'Can you pull it down?' I'm that kind of actor. I started in theater, so that's the feedback that I'm accustomed to. It's the feedback that I really thrive off of. View quote
Jill Scott
The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it. View quote
Jim Dale
Our intelligence community needs better coordination of operations and exchange of information, and that's why we need an overall director of national intelligence and a national counterterrorism center. View quote
Jim Ramstad
As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director. View quote
Joan Chen
Every part I've done has been for one reason or another-money, or the part, or the director, or the location. I'd like to get one thing that's all of those combined. View quote
Joan Severance
From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing. View quote
Joe Eszterhas
I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime. (Joe Eszterhas)
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. View quote
Joe Lhota
I want to try and be as involved in the art of filmmaking as possible. I feel that the only way to really do that is to take on as many roles as possible, whether it be as an actor, an editor, a director, a cinematographer. View quote
Joe Swanberg
I'm a pretty hands-off director. I let people try things, and if it gets over-jokey, then I'll try and rein it in a little bit. View quote
Joe Swanberg
I learn a lot as a director from acting in other people's films and just in general. View quote
Joe Swanberg