Famous Quotes & Sayings

Our No. 1 job was to hire the most dynamic, energetic director that we could (for the job), and we feel we got our No. 1 free agent.

Sophie Turner

Stephen Daldry would be a director that I would love to work with as well as Peter Jackson, Tim Burton, and I'm very lucky to have worked with Isabel Coixet, who is also one of my favourite directors.

Our previous director was pretty much under a lot of pressure from the trucking industry, and I think the governor was, to keep the trucks rolling.

Our goal is to have a new director to start by July 1.

B. J. Novak

I'm a believer in trusting the director.

Antoine Fuqua

I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.

The 48-hour stoppage is aimed at CIS staff and CIS directors but unfortunately there will be an effect on some customers,

Liev Schreiber

I was out of my head. I was really frantic, ... I guess I was always under the misconception that a director makes the film, and it's not true. A director directs the people who make the film.

Trevor Nunn

I think a director does have a huge responsibility to draw strands together, and to seek extension and development of his or her own ideas.

Mike Nichols

I think a director can make a play happen before your eyes so that you are part of it and it is part of you. If you can get it right, there's no mystery. It's not about mystery. It's not even mysterious. It's about our lives.

It is hard to imagine that the director general will be able to produce a positive report on Friday.

I was there. I was there as the sports information director at Drake.

I was told by the (VIS state tournament) director that if we don't win a game in the (VIC) tournament, we're not going. Every team we've lost to has been ranked.

Julianne Moore

I think people are always really surprised when they realise I'm not a very serious person and that I'm not tremendously serious about acting. I don't like to rehearse; I hate improv. Directors that don't like to talk, they're my favourite ones.

Patricia Clarkson

I think I am monumentally lucky but I do have the good fortune to have these great young directors offering me parts in their scripts.

Colin Trevorrow

'Jurassic Park' is like 'Star Wars.' Different directors can give a different taste to each movie.

Lesley Manville

I'd love it if doors open for me in America. There are directors I'd love to work with there. I'll always do theater, but I've got to pay the mortgage.

James Williams

He just sort of surveys things, ... Sometimes, he'll tell the director something. But he's pretty quiet. And I think that's a good role for him.

Grant Heslov

You work with great directors and terrible directors, and so you learn; you take what you think will work for you.

Stephen Chbosky

'Rent' was a special project for me. It was my first notable screenplay job. I worked with two wonderful directors on it, starting with Spike Lee in the summer of 2001. I wrote a draft for Spike and he was really good to me.

Aaron Johnson

There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.

Dan Gilroy

I reached a point where I'd watched enough directors do the job that I felt I understood it. And it's not that I'm a slow learner and it took me this long; I also was enjoying writing, and I still enjoy writing - I get tremendous satisfaction out of the writing end of it.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I feel that I don't have to wait around for good scripts anymore, that I can get things moving more quickly. I can ring up directors I like and say I'm keen to work with them, which is pretty great.

Fran was at the Grey Cup. I don't know how many teams actually send a director or scout. My point is he's a tireless worker and he'll look wherever there are players that you think can help your football team win.

Dave Bautista

Know your lines; otherwise, have an open mind because you want to get lost in the moment. When you have talented actors and directors to work with, then it's pretty easy to do.

Nigel Lythgoe

Jon Scoffield was an incredible director and producer at ATV. I met him when I was 30 and he made great things happen in my career. He's still alive, but we're no longer in touch.

John is one of the top parks and recreation directors I've seen. He has a great feel for the needs of the community, and that's reflected in the facilities.

But at the manager, low-level director or employee level, there's no responsibility.

Kate Hudson

I felt horrible because I thought I was letting the director and the studio down,

Julia Garner

I think that the most important thing for me is, how is the character that I would be reading for? Is it interesting? Is there stuff to do? Are there things that you can do with the character? How can you play it out? Just those kinds of things that are very important for an actor. Also, a good director and good dialogue.

Bobby Knight

Have you ever heard an admissions director be fired because a kid flunked out of school?

Annette Bening

He seemed to know so much more than it would be appropriate for a first-time (film) director to know. I still don't understand how he knows what he knows.

Allison Anders

For me, the most exciting thing is that Jane Campion is a woman we can all really look up to. She doesn't have the body of work that some other directors do - no woman director does - but her work is so consistently original, wonderful, masterful.