Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jacki Weaver

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

Valeria Golino

I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want to do. There are those directors who've really made me shine and others who've made me opaque.

Imtiaz Ali

I want all my films to look distinctly different, like some other directors I admire. But in a way, I can't really take myself completely out of the movies I make.

Louis Leterrier

I'm one of the lucky directors that pretty much every movie I've done has started a franchise. But I never think this way. I think that's the way you break it, if you go, 'then at the end, at the end we'll see you later.' I was forced to do it in 'Clash of the Titans.'

Luke Evans

I guess maybe directors see a face that seems to have been lived in. I know that my face has been lived in, yeah.

Alex Cox

I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.

Taraji P. Henson

With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.

Brad Pitt

I would say that the directors that I've liked the most are all curious in nature - curious thinkers. They're all big questioners, I would say, first and foremost.

Abbas Kiarostami

Directors don't always create, they can also destroy with too many demands.

Abbas Kiarostami

I am still very surprised that I managed to make that film [Close Up]. When I actually look back on that film, I really feel that I was not the director but instead just a member of the audience.

Adam McKay

David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.

Adam McKay

All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.

Amy Adams

I'm not the kind of actress who asks a lot of questions of my directors unless it's something I really need to know.

Casting directors don't necessarily want a more recognizable commercial face. Sometimes, they want a lesser known person.

Kevin Spacey

The more shows that are produced, the more writers are hired, producers are hired, actors are hired, directors are hired, it means the more people will get employed. It's better for the economy. It's a fantastic thing.

Diane Cilento

If you were in the film industry at that time, you were always picked up by directors who were much older. You were whisked about and shown things. I did work very hard though.

Tadanobu Asano

There are lots of actors who insist on speaking the lines themselves, and you hear the same thing from directors and the audience, but I don't think it's worth getting het up about. I think it makes more sense to use someone who speaks that country's language: that's what voice actors are for.

Bruno Tonioli

I think a lot of people have a vision of L.A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions by the swimming pool.

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.

Viggo Mortensen

What keeps the film from being by-the-numbers has a lot to do with David. A lot of directors would have made an exploitation movie.

Melanie Mayron

With episodic, kind of one-hour directing, they always have guest directors come in, so they don't have the same person week after week. You get a break.

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.

Carice van Houten

Most directors that I've worked with - I've worked with before, especially in Holland - and they know that I'm somebody who talks and asks, and talks, and talks, and talks and questions and turns things around. I'm like a little cat, walking around my little nest until I find my place.

The great directors managed to dissolve and disappear into the work. They make other people look good.

Jamie Lee Curtis

The parameters are such that I don't get offered a lot of work. I'm sure most directors hear my list of don'ts and say forget it.

Romola Garai

There are American directors I'd really like to work with, but I don't know how much I want to be sitting in my house, doing the rounds of meetings with CEOs. You have to be really hardworking to do all that, and I'm lazy.

Sean Penn

There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.

We will focus on finding qualified outside directors for our companies.

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.

Mahmoud Abbas

fire all directors of the security services who failed to fulfill their duties.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I feel terrible for directors of TV because all the episodes have to look the same. They make a great series for five or six years, and then when it's canceled, they can't break out on their own.