Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Geraghty

After all these years, I'm starting to learn what a good director does, and I know what a good one does with actors: help us navigate finer instincts, help us when we're wrong, encourage us when things are great.

George Lucas

I realized why directors are such horrible people - in a way - because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.

Lyle Lovett

I've gotten to work with some wonderful directors and people who have been great teachers to me.

Fede Alvarez

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.

Jack Nicholson

I worry from the moment I take a job. I worry about how I'm going to do it, if I can do it... Then I walk on set and the director says, 'Roll', and all of a sudden, all of it disappears and it's all happening, and I relax, and I'm doing what I do, and I'm not even thinking about it.

Albert Brooks

I never wanted to be a director.

Conrad Hall

There are a lot of directors who are knowledgeable about images, and others who aren't.

David Ayer

The hardest thing, as a director, is that it's never right. Nothing you do is ever right. It's never exactly how you envision it. Making a movie is about making it better.

Donald Sutherland

I was so disappointed [with movie Forsaken], but maybe I hadn't talked enough with the director. I don't know. But, Kiefer worked it out. Kiefer took it and re-edited it. I don't know whether he talks about that. He's probably more discreet than I am because Jon is a friend of his. Now, it fulfills what I was hoping for, and what we were working on and doing.

Clint Eastwood

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

Curiously enough, I was one of the first to have some say in Hollywood. By sheer accident, I had four successes in a row in the early 30's and, although I was still in my 20's, I demanded and received approval of cast, story and director. I don't know how I got away with it, but I did!

Anne Hathaway

When Chris Nolan is your director you are like, "I trust that, I'm wrong."

Angelina Jolie

I'm shy to call myself a director still. When someone says, 'What do you do for a living?' I don't know if I've earned that.

Angelina Jolie

I've learned a lot from Clint [Eastwood], who's an extremely economical director.

Andrea Arnold

I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.

Andrew Dice Clay

When I do any stand-up, you're the writer, director, and producer. You're alone.

Rachel McAdams

I want to pick good projects, I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity. Sanity would be good. I'd like to have a little sanity!

Richard King

Also, I plan to screw something up on every movie I do so that I can learn from my mistakes and become a better director with each project.

Douglas Sirk

A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.

Donald Pleasence

Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach.

Claudia Cardinale

And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy a director of category B, not a big director.

Dolph Lundgren

Stallone is a pretty tough director. You don't mess with him.

Dabney Coleman

I have worked with some great directors.

Clark Gregg

I've never seen a movie director who was happier to be directing a movie than Dave [Mamet]. His sets, everyone who's ever been involved with one of them will tell you of the funnest, funniest sets you can be on.

Dane Cook

When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.

Anthony Minghella

Being a writer-director can sometimes make you incredibly blinkered.

Ciaran Hinds

I know I don't go looking for directors.

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.

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.