Director Quotes - page 5

Tarantino is the coolest damn guy; he's just so much fun to work with. He might be the best director I've ever worked with. He just seems to know how to do it and he knows how to make you feel good about it. He's having so much fun you start having fun. You can't help it. (David Carradine)

I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be.

Bill Condon

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.

Michel Legrand

Richard Marquand, on Jedi, was very much an actor's director.

Peter Mayhew

I'm always looking for a way to surprise audiences. That's, I feel, my job as a director. I felt that Amy Adams playing a tough woman in 'The Fighter' was a surprise. People saw her as a princess.

David O. Russell

For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of.

Terry Southern

I feel fortunate. I've really gotten to work with amazing talented people, and to learn from them, which is why I'm doing this. If I can work with the best director I'm going to do it.

Armie Hammer

My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.

Edward R. Tufte

Your crew becomes your family and you trust the director and the other actors on the set, and it's a very safe place.

Aleksa Palladino

The kindest thing a director can do is look with open eyes at everything.

Alexander Payne

I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing. (Alfonso Ribeiro)

If I feel the part is right, and I know that the producers and the director want me, I'd go for broke. Always.

Anne Archer

In every shoot, between the actor and the director there is manipulation. I'm not saying that negatively. It's healthy.

Adele Exarchopoulos

Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.

B. J. Novak

I'm a believer in trusting the director.

B. J. Novak

I wish I could say that when I didn't agree with a director I defer to him, but I think sometimes I'm a little self-righteous.

Billy Crudup

It could be a great script but the director is not the right person for me to work for at this time. So there are a lot of elements that come into play and a lot of variables, but more than anything it's got to be a great script and a great character.

Blair Underwood

I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game.

Bob Balaban

And I think being a good director is being able to be completely tyrannical and you?ve got to be an absolute dictator while at the same time, you have to listen and see everything because it can all change on a dime.

Bob Balaban

We need to make is to strengthen the position of the director of the CIA.

Bob Graham

I think that's the key to being a director: to be able to get the shot and move on quickly. (Bobby Farrelly)

My musical director, Mark Cherry, is the most wonderful person who ever lived on God's good green Earth. He's my director, he does the arrangements. Really, he does everything - including certain janitorial chores!

Brett Somers

Larry Kasdan is a great director.

Brion James

For a director, the most challenging scenes are the dialogue scenes.

Bruce Beresford

There were movies that always made me want to be a director. You see brilliant scenes and the way the emotions were handled. I thought, I'd really like to do that.

Bruce Beresford

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