Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jackie Chan

Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.

Jackie Chan

Every time I make an American film I just trust the American director and American writer. Myself, I would never make this kind of film. For me, those kinds of films are ridiculous. They don't make sense.

Jeff Bridges

I do my best to hold the director's opinion above my own.

Jeff Fahey

If everyone's comfortable, you can pretty much make any kind of movie that the director wants.

James Cameron

I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.

Jackie Speier

If the director of the department doesn't even know what the privacy policy is, we are in trouble.

Christopher Hitchens

She's got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.

Gaspard Ulliel

I'm always very interested in going and discovering a young director's films.

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.

Gary Ross

Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.

George Stigler

My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director.

Jeff Wall

I guess you could say I'm like a film director but my movies have only one frame.

Iain Glen

I'm happiest when I can just be a director and watch.

These directors must be removed as promptly as possible and replaced with truly independent directors who will represent Sovereign and its shareholders' interests first and foremost.

The schedule prepared by the directors and sent for confirmation anticipates a launch on the stock market in July.

I've talked to a lot of state directors of homeland security, state officials, mayors, heads of big companies, and they all say they don't take it seriously,

Mila Kunis

I've said this before, but after 'That '70s Show' ended, I solely wanted do films that inspire me, and to work with people who make me better. I wanted to just surround myself with people who I think are better than I am, whether they're actors or directors or producers, so that I could learn from them.

Carlton Cuse

TV showrunners have become known entities to people who watch television in the way that movie directors have been known to filmgoers for a long time. When I started out as a writer and producer in television, I never had the slightest expectation that fame would be part of the job.

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.

Damian Lewis

I've discovered just how symbiotic the relationship is between writers, directors and actors. They ask the same questions and strip down texts in exactly the same way.

We're very interested in our directors as being as accountable as possible to our shareholders.

Mark Ruffalo

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

David Naughton

It's trial by error and hopefully you work with directors who can modulate your performance and that's really the key.

John Hawkes

It's not like every director in every movie is seeking me out by any means, there are a lot of things I'm not suited for, a lot of things I'm not interested in, and a lot of things that directors wouldn't be interested in me for.

Nastassja Kinski

For me, directors were like father figures most of the time.

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.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

There needs to be more film directors of colour. They bandy about the word 'diversity' a lot, but when I say 'of colour,' I mean Asian, black - I mean people of all colour. We need to have those voices given the opportunity, not told that their films will not be distributed or will not sell well abroad.

Jason Mewes

There's a lot of other movies I like, but I don't even pay attention to directors to tell you the truth.

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.

Bryan Cranston

If you have a screaming angry director, everyone else will be panicked as well.