Quotes of: Directors Keyword

The gatekeepers are worse than the directors.

Yiddish

I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.

Patricia Clarkson

Yes, there are directors I admire, the mavericks. Altman. There are many good directors.

Mark Rydell

I think a good director is a good listener.

Denis Villeneuve

C.I.A. Director: What's this - this cluster of buildings down here? George: The PMA - it's the Pakistani Military Academy. C.I.A. Director: [looks at him incredulously] George: It's their West Point. C.I.A. Director: And how close is it to the house?...

Zero Dark Thirty

Casting directors tend to be the unsung heroes in this business.

Brent Sexton

Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.

Malcolm McDowell

The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.

Shirley Knight

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

Alfred Hitchcock

Being on a set where the director has lost control is just sickening. No one goes the extra mile, there's a lot of eye-rolling... it just breeds inertia. If a director is in control, the crew follow their leader. But the second anyone senses the dire...

Christine Vachon

I thought that Hollywood was just for geniuses and that directors come from three generations of directors. I was worried that I was not up to the challenge of making a movie. Then realized that all a director has to do is know what he wants to do.

Fede Alvarez

My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer and my mom's a director and writer.

Troian Bellisario

When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.

Barkhad Abdi

I worked with young directors all my life, only young directors.

Vincent Cassel

Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.

Yvonne Strahovski

I have worked with a lot of really great women directors: Ana Kokkinos; Cate Shortland, who just recently directed a film called 'Lore;' another director, Rachel Perkins - she's an Aboriginal director, and I've worked with her three times now, and sh...

Deborah Mailman

My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.

Orson Welles

Matching character and actor is what a good director does.

Bruno Dumont

There are times when you work with directors on set, and things are a bit rudderless, and those can be good directors.

Grant Heslov

A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.

Kevin Bacon

There are casting directors with lots of imagination, but also some with not as much imagination.

Max von Sydow