Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Nancy Gibbs

There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.

Nancy Cartwright

Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.

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.

Mike Birbiglia

Directing your first film is like showing up to the field trip in seventh grade, getting on the bus, and making an announcement, 'So today I'm driving the bus.' And everybody's like, 'What?' And you're like, 'I'm gonna drive the bus.' And they're like, 'But you don't know how to drive the bus.'

Mike Birbiglia

I majored in screenwriting and playwriting in school - and wanted to make films as a career. But when I directed my first short in college - which was called 'Extras' - I lost thousands of dollars and made an unsatisfying and incomplete film.

Misha Collins

For me, to be perfectly honest, the part of my brain that was stimulated by directing was much more exciting than a typical day of acting.

Nikki Reed

I think for women especially, writing and creating your own role, producing, directing - having some control over what you do is really important. We can pave the way for other women to send what messages they want sent.

Do you imagine Sergio Leone with a philosophy? Come on! He was a primitive of movies, a great director on set.

What I aspire to is to have the viewer look directly at the subject, as if they're looking through a window at the real thing.

Colum McCann

Very seldom in my fiction have I directly used the stories people have told me. I think ripping off people's lives in fiction is dangerous. It also lacks imagination.

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.

Trey Parker

I've gotten to a point where I wouldn't direct someone else's material. It would only be something totally original.

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.

I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.

Alex Cox

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

Brian Cox

I'm 100% Celt. In fact, I'm directly related to the progenitor of the high kings of Ireland, Niall of the Nine Hostages.

David Schwimmer

Directing is something I always wanted to do. I started when I was 13 directing scenes in high school and then plays in college with my theatre company.

Debra Messing

To me, nothing is more fascinating or theatrical than real life. These people are in dire situations, where something extreme has happened in their lives.

Adriana Barraza

I was a director and dialogue and acting coach.

Yeah, I knew what direction I was going.

Kevin Harrington

We are going in the direction that we need to be. We're going to score solid points with our distance kids, and if our other kids can fill in and grab some points we're going to be able to score.

We are kind of venturing into uncharted waters for our team in this stage of the development of our program. It's very important for us to be successful down the stretch because this is the direction we're trying to move our program.

Jerry Cantrell

We're at the point in time where if the system's not broken, we're in dire straits.

William Sadler

It used to annoy and frustrate me to have to come in and audition. I would say to my agents, 'Haven't they seen this film and this film and this film? They know what I look like... They must.' Until I directed an episode of 'Roswell.' And all of a sudden, I realized why that was such an important thing.

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.

Rock helps me communicate directly with the people because rock doesn't lie, and people are fed up with lying politicians.

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

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.

Temple Grandin

I had problems getting my words out. If people spoke directly to me, I understood what they said. But when the grownups got to yakking really fast by themselves, it just sounded like 'oi oi.' I thought grownups had a separate language. I've now figured out I was not hearing the hard consonant sounds.

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.

Tahar Rahim

I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.