Quotes of: Directors Keyword

I never storyboard. I hate it. I don't understand why so many directors want to make comic strips of their films.

Patrice Leconte

A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.

Peter Mullan

My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

Quentin Tarantino

It depends who the director is you know, I mean Ken Loach for instance. I've done up to 32 takes with him.

Robert Carlyle

When I came to England, the first director I met was Charles Sturridge, who told me, 'You speak like somebody out of the 1950s.'

Richard E. Grant

I think the toughest thing about being an actor in a film is to be with a director who doesn't know what they want. And that can be really, really frustrating.

Ricky Jay

The first thing I ask when I'm offered a part is, Who's the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles.

Swoosie Kurtz

Whatever it takes, the job of the director is to be the leader and to get your actors where they need to go. That's a philosophy that I have.

Shawn Levy

I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.

Sean Penn

An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.

Sidney Poitier

Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.

Steven Spielberg

Outside their country, Hungarian directors have had, from the critics at least, a friendly reception.

Tibor Fischer

If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance.

Trevor Nunn

The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.

Trevor Nunn

An established film director can just pick up the phone and say to a star, 'Hey, are you interested in doing a commercial?'

Tony Scott

With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.

Ken Adam

Director of any film is very important, and an actor has to leave himself in his hands to mould.

Leander Paes

The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.

Malcolm McDowell

I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.

Mark Mothersbaugh

I never feel like a smug or a smart-alec film director, and there are plenty of those around.

Martin McDonagh

I feel comfortable with either digital or film - the director and the project should determine the course of choice.

Robert Richardson