Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Gray

What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of, distance between the action and the character, and the character and the audience.

Annette Bening

A lot of directors in my experience are very receptive. They see what you do first, and then they want to find a place to put the camera, and they tweak you here and there.

Anton Corbijn

Generally my focus has been on people who make things, whether it's writers or directors or painters or musicians.

Bruce Paltrow

As you sort of go through life, you realize it's very rare to have a relationship as an actor with a director like I have with John,

Jerome Williams

After three months, the executive director must come up with a plan to improve the overall performance of the agency.

Mark Ruffalo

I knew playwrights and stage directors before I ever knew filmmakers,

I'm rooting for the Jays. I was either scouting director or a cross-checker for 10 years. Whenever we had to promote a player we knew someone was ready, or when we had to trade a player, we had someone ready. Our farm system must have been okay.

Mathieu Amalric

I keep meeting directors that are so irresistible. I only do irresistible films, because I don't need to act to feel myself alive.

Emma Stone

I love improv. 'Crazy, Stupid, Love,' the script was really great, but the directors were open to letting you try different things. And that felt like a muscle I hadn't exercised in a really long time.

David Morse

There's a different kind of satisfaction in helping a director achieve, you know, something like The Green Mile, which I thought was pretty terrific.

There's no surprise that the independent directors will recommend the proposal. I think the (reincorporation) will be approved,

Mike Bryan

The Tour just doesn't seem to give (doubles) enough respect because tournament directors are trying to save money. But we're just going to keep fighting.

Jason Reitman

When you make a movie, you do it so piecemeal. You're doing it, not only scene by scene, out of order, but shot by shot, line by line. And there's this idea that the director has the whole thing in his or her head and they're going to somehow weave it all together in the end.

Venice can become the place for confirming the importance of seven new directors that are now becoming, for everybody, the most important contemporary directors.

Don Bluth

How can you have a director that doesn't go to work with the crew every day and talk to them?

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.

Matthias Schoenaerts

I hooked up with director Jacques Audiard for this film called 'Rust & Bone' with Marion Cotillard. I loved that experience so much I'm truly sad that it's over!

Samantha Morton

I have to have the director be my guide - I have to have that relationship with the director or else I go bonkers.

Jay Rockefeller

I really expected that when this hearing came, the new director of national intelligence would be here to talk about threats,

Matthew Lewis

I just met the director for the fifth Harry Potter and they are all really positive about things,

Bruce Campbell

I'm as happy as any director who's tormented by everything they had to change,

I personally enjoy it because I've spent my life in the library. I was the director at the library at Marshall University for 10 years, and I've always enjoyed reading.

Romola Garai

If you are a 19-year-old woman, there are very specific things that directors and the people in positions of power in the industry - who tend to be older men - are going to want you to be and do. They are not going to want some chatty, difficult, slightly spoilt girl.

Rohit Shetty

If you know where you stand, and your minus and plus points as a director or as a human being, you will never go wrong. You will always be successful.

Jack Nicholson

OK, the director makes the movie. But some movies can't get made without someone like me in them.

Zhang Yimou

I'm very honored to become executive director of the ceremonies.

I never know going in if I've even got a movie to make. Once you start making a film, you hope there's going to be enough material! My job as a director is always to push for more.

Coleen Rowley

I never really anticipated this kind of impact when I wrote this letter to Director Mueller two weeks ago.

Ray Harryhausen

I always worked with the writer, and the producer, and sometimes the director wouldn't come in until the picture was ready to go. It's not a director's picture as you imagine in the European sense of the word. It has to be laid out -- otherwise we couldn't make them for the price we did. I was responsible for laying out the special effects and making the picture practical.

Neil Jordan

But everyone gets burnt, don't they? Certain things are outside of your control. I suppose the only thing you can learn as a director is to not put yourself into situations where it can get outside of your control. And that's what happened.

John Waters

I never rewatch the great films of my favorite directors because I'm afraid they won't hold up.

Todd Solondz

Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.