Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ricky Gervais

I see myself much more as a writer/director or at least an aspiring writer/director - not necessarily in film.

Bret Easton Ellis

Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control.

David Wain

I hope I don't just do the exact same thing my whole life. I also feel like it's really hard to make comedy. It's almost impossible for comedy filmmakers and directors to stay relevant as they get older.

Barkhad Abdi

When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.

Arthur Cohn

It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.

Craig Kilborn

Our top story, in 'Threat Matrix Reloaded' news ... Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Muller held a press conference today to announce that Al Qaeda is planning attacks somewhere inside the United States at sometime in the future. So go about your normal lives, but with a vague sense of foreboding.

Elizabeth Taylor

On the film where I didn't get along with the director, I just decided to not speak to him.

Elia Kazan

I didn't have the problem of finding myself at 45 on the wrong course - I always wanted to be a film director.

Elia Kazan

I owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me.

Eli Roth

Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore.

Boyd Holbrook

There are all kinds of directors I want to work with and all kinds of films that I want to do.

Ken Watanabe

As a Japanese actor, I really want to work with a lot of actors and actresses in the world and many directors who have many different kinds of talents. I feel like nationally doesn't matter at all.

Ken Stott

Producers and directors think they have the power, but what they think of as the weakest link, the actor, is all-powerful.

Kristen Stewart

There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know. But everyone's really different. I've worked with women who I've never wanted to tell anything about myself to, and I've worked with guys who have been pouring wells of emotion. So emotional availability is not a gender-specific thing.

Denzel Washington

I'm not interested in being a celebrity; I'm interested in being a better actor and a better director.

Alan Rickman

The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'

Alan Alda

Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.

Catherine Deneuve

Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often.

Charles Bronson

Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal.

Chad Lowe

Adrian Lyne is such an incredible director.

Norman Wisdom

Don't get me wrong: I'm overjoyed with my career to date. But perhaps I could have done more. Mostly, I just did whatever the directors told me to do.

Charlton Heston

Above all, a director has to be a good captain.

Charlie Rose

I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.

Bill Mumy

I have great respect for directors who know what they're doing.

Ludivine Sagnier

What I'm looking for is the variety of choices and the opportunity to work with great directors - that's what I'm looking for.

We are looking toward students being disc jockeys and program directors in the near future. Who knows, the next great radio personality could come from Union County.

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.

Mark Ruffalo

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

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.

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.