Quotes of: Directors Keyword

Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal.

Charles Bronson

Honestly, as a director, at least for me, if I start doing the same thing over and over again, I'm going to get bored really quickly.

Chris Columbus

I tend to project my father figure onto any director that I'm working with, or mother, if I'm working with a female, or it can be confused.

Guy Pearce

The whole world of 'Game of Thrones' was realized with such detail, with directors and writers who really geeked out and really loved all the little bits of it.

Harry Lloyd

I think audiences, producers and directors included, develop crushes on actors (actresses in particular) and then lose interest and move on to the next one.

Julia Stiles

They call David O. Russell the actor whisperer because he can get stuff out of actors that maybe some other directors can't.

Jacki Weaver

Usually directors hire me because I'm what they are looking for. But once in a while, and it's very rare, they will hire me and then try to make me over.

Christopher Walken

A lot of times passion projects or films are difficult to make because they don't have proven directors attached to them.

David Duchovny

All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.

David Hockney

I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation.

Dustin Hoffman

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.

James Dean

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.

Joe Eszterhas

I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors.

Jonathan Frakes

When I feel like being a director, I write a novel.

John Irving

I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two.

Jack Kilby

I've never directed anything before 'Mad Men,' so I don't feel I have any advice for the other directors.

John Slattery

I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.

Mandy Patinkin

Being a director, whether you're in rehearsal or you're in auditions or you're in a creative meeting, is so much to me about being present in the moment. There's a sense of time stopping.

Diane Paulus

Every time you say yes to a film there's a certain percentage of your yes that has to do with the director, a certain percentage to do with the story, a certain percentage with the character, the location, etc.

Guy Pearce

I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.

Michelangelo Antonioni

I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time.

Sam Mendes