Director Quotes - page 7

A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do. (Douglas Sirk)
Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films. View quote
Douglas Sirk
Every time I work with a European director, I find they hire the person that captures the spirit of the role. Americans tend to hire the best face. The person that looks more like the role, whether they can perform the role or not is a bonus. View quote
Elizabeth Pena
In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a serial kisser refuses to leave me. View quote
Emraan Hashmi
When I was to come to Washington the first time as Music Director of the Boston Symphony, Mrs. Johnson phoned us to find out if they could give us a party and who we would like to meet. View quote
Erich Leinsdorf
Do you know what I'm working on now? My first feature as a director. View quote
Faye Dunaway
I would first recommend we appoint a Police Director that commands the respect of the rank and file. View quote
Frank Vincent
Alexander Gonzalez Inarritu is a great director. He's the one I first worked with. He's amazing. View quote
Gael Garcia Bernal
On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it. View quote
Greta Scacchi
But at the same time, never having final cut before, I really learned an interesting thing for any studio executive who is reading this: that if a director has final cut, it's actually easier and more interesting to listen to notes. View quote
Griffin Dunne
As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along. (Griffin Dunne)
I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move! View quote
Howard Hawks
The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but no one was about to give me that opportunity on Animal House. View quote
Harold Ramis
In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very good reason - the director cut according to the script. So, if you ad libbed, you'd be off mike and off camera. View quote
Harry Shearer
With acting I am being led by the script, other actors, the director, etc. But with songwriting I feel it is much more self reliant and allows me to be in the creative experience without being as dependent on others. View quote
Helen Slater
As a director, you try to find what is creative. View quote
Jan de Bont
I only travel to good material, a good director and a good company. I won't work in another country for a year any longer, because I have a lovely wife and I adore her and I can't bear to be away from her. View quote
Jim Dale
I really think the mind of someone who hasn't been welded into place by their work or studios or actors or this whole society is a wonderful mind to work with, so I'd like to do a big picture with an unknown director. View quote
Joan Severance
I think, as written, 'Assassins' simply acknowledges the very human need to be acknowledged. As director, I've got to put aside any particular biases or prejudices that, as a moral human being, this is not an appropriate or acceptable way to get what you want. View quote
Joe Mantello
I understood that I was not the best director in the world nor the worst director in the world. I realized that there is a very mysterious element to what works and what doesn't work in the theater. And it's good to know that from the beginning. View quote
Joe Mantello
I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad. (Joe Wright)
The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized. View quote
John Frankenheimer
I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was. View quote
Jackie Cooper
Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director. View quote
John Milius
A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director that I've admired knew exactly what he wanted to do. They didn't sit there and think about it. View quote
John Milius