Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lloyd Kaufman

I didn't even know what a film director was. To me, Charlie Chaplin was a goofy clown, and John Ford - what? Never heard of him.

Malcolm McDowell

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

Gael Garcia Bernal

Alexander Gonzalez Inarritu is a great director. He's the one I first worked with. He's amazing.

Julianne Moore

I'm at the mercy of others because I'm not a director. I'm not a producer. I'm not a writer.

Julian Fellowes

For most directors, the scriptwriter is about as welcome on set as a member of the Taliban.

Mackenzie Astin

Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired?

Matthew Modine

You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you do and knows how to push you and bring out the best in you.

Judd Nelson

All of the directors I've worked with I have loved and would work with again. I have no favorites.

It was great theatre from a television standpoint, but when the field keeps getting halved each day, that's tough for a tournament director who's trying to sell tickets.

Jeremy Piven

There are so many great directors that I haven't worked with and that I would love to work with.

Leonardo DiCaprio

You never know as a director what other directors do. Because you don't get to see what they do.

Martin Lawrence

I wanted to trust in my partners and the directors and producers and do the best I can to deliver what I could deliver.

Paul Schneider

You can't have a director say, "Just be you"; you have to have an aim. It's like when you throw darts, you have to know where the bullseye is. You can't just say, "No no no no no, drop the darts. Just stand. We're going to film you." You have to get there indirectly. You have to have me doing something, and then you can get "me."

Frank Ocean

I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films.

Christine Vachon

In film producing, there is an inherent tension between the director, the money and the producer, and that's what keeps it flowing and honest and accountable.

Noah Baumbach

I watch movies all the time, so it's hard to pick certain specific directors that have inspired me in the aggregate.

Mike White

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

Jonah Hill

I learn a lot from every director that I work with. I sit on set and watch them, every one.

Kate Beckinsale

Were I not married to the director, I'm not sure I'd know anything about the 'Underworld' sequel.

Terry Southern

It's often the case with directors that they don't like to share credit, which is the case of Stanley. He would prefer just A Film By Stanley Kubrick including music and everything.

Rosie Perez

We all like indie directors - heck, I even married one... but we're divorced now.

Roger Michell

I've tried to stay out of the frame more as a director.

Robert Rodriguez

Ever director has at least 10 bad films in them.

Vincent Cassel

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

Winona Ryder

I love westerns. John Ford is one of the 10 best directors.

Vincente Minnelli

It's always the story that interests me.

Woody Allen

I always thought it would be very funny if I was a blind film director.

William Shatner

A director is a choreographer, both politically and creatively.

William H. Macy

Directors work 10 times harder than anyone else. Get paid a quarter.

William Peter Blatty

I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious.