Director Quotes - page 40

The first work of the director is to set a mood so that the actor's work can take place, so that the actor can create. And in order to do that, you have to communicate, communicate with the actors. And direction is about communication on all levels. (William Friedkin)
The thing is David is also aware of everything and it's not like you're going somewhere the director is not. View quote
William Hurt
I came to Los Angeles only after filming 'A Good Day to Die Hard,' when I was cast in the independent movie 'Delirium.' Director Lee Roy Kunz was looking everywhere for a Russian actress. He saw my photos, and only then he learned where I starred before! Eventually, I spent several months in the U.S., and we made the film quickly. View quote
Yuliya Snigir
I hate when a movie just sort of ends and is so open-ended you feel like it wasn't finished. I appreciate leaving things up to the interpretation of the audience and letting them make decisions about where things will go in the future - but the director has to make a decision; otherwise it is sort of a cop-out. View quote
Zach Gilford
A movie has its own fate, which often doesn't depend on the performances of the director and actors. View quote
Zhang Ziyi
I don't want to be a director, or to have responsibility for hundreds of people. View quote
Zoe Wanamaker
The main reason for choosing a project is not really the renown of the director that's making the project. I feel like it's the fact of an actor to constantly want to do different things. View quote
Song Kang-ho
For me, each film, each script is like a little journey in itself, and I'm reinventing the wheel. It's like, 'How do I make this film?' That's part of the pleasure, and that's why I'm not a normal professional director. View quote
Pawel Pawlikowski
The relationship between a director and an editor in documentaries is so important. View quote
Roger Ross Williams
On big films there is a lot of pressure on the director, because they have so much money. The way I approach it as an actor is pretty much the same. View quote
Steve Buscemi
Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director. (Mel Brooks)
The way I see it, when I go out as an actor, it should be on a type of film I'm never going to do as a director. View quote
Edward Burns
I was not born a size 2. I'm not skinny, period. I'm not willing to sleep with the director or step on somebody else's neck to get the job. View quote
Queen Latifah
I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff. View quote
Queen Latifah
My brother's a grip. My mom's a scriptwriter. My dad's a director. So it's like, at heart, I'm a below-the-line girl. View quote
Kristen Stewart
As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes. View quote
Marjane Satrapi
I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss. View quote
Georg Solti
To my delight, Federico had seen Dans la ville blanche (1983) by Swiss director Alain Tanner. Enthusiastic about Bruno Ganz's performance, he also was impressed by the film's startling visual poetry of Lisbon achieved by transferring inferior film stock onto 35mm. It was exactly this kind of uncomplicated technical innovation that inspired Federico during the writing of Attore. Conceived in 1992, Attore focused on the craft and the psychology of actors. Having completed a film treatment with roles for Mastroianni, Giulietta Masina, and Paolo Villagio, Fellini was now wondering if he should provide Marcello with a home movie camera to be used in a loosely Shakespearian sense that all the world's a film set. The 8mm footage of intimate memories of the theatre from his Rimini childhood would then be transferred to 35mm – a most intriguing idea that would have been a new departure for the Maestro had he lived to bring it to the screen. View quote
Damian Pettigrew
The first director of Hopkins didn't get along with him so Ricketts would have to wait until he was out of town to sneak into the library with the help of some sympathetic professor. View quote
Ed Ricketts
I'm getting my respect as a video director. The fashion industry respects me and knows who I am. View quote
ASAP Rocky
Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached. (Naomi Watts)
To evaluate the greatness of the late director of the Philippine Library and Museum is utterly impossible. An accomplished musician, the foremost scholar in the land, a collector of the first rank, at home among the great masters of foreign tongues, Epifanio de los Santos leaves behind him a record of service and achievement that would be difficult to equal. View quote
Epifanio de los Santos
( As Assistant Director of Technical Census)...He exhibited his astute powers of observation and astonished all his associates with that endurance for continued effort seldom equalled but never surpassed by men of even younger years. View quote
Epifanio de los Santos
As an actor you have to bring to the table your creative input. But when a director like Ridley Scott says I want you to do this this way, you know when he gets to the editing room he has a reason for it. Its like watching a masterpiece. View quote
Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Now, I have big-money offers on three movies, and I have director approval. That's kind of scary,' he says. 'No directors have been attached. That's a lot of pressure on me. View quote
Cuba Gooding, Jr.