Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ida Lupino

Id love to see more women working as directors and producers.

Guillermo del Toro

When you work with a great director, you can have a great partnership.

Grant Heslov

There are times when you work with directors on set, and things are a bit rudderless, and those can be good directors.

I don't worry about what everyone wants to see. I make movies that please a writer, director and myself. I always think there are enough people smart as me and sensitive as me.

Our previous director was pretty much under a lot of pressure from the trucking industry, and I think the governor was, to keep the trucks rolling.

Our goal is to have a new director to start by July 1.

Brooke Adams

As an actress, I always felt like the people you met on set were interchangeable with the people you met on other sets - the grips, the gaffers, the actors, the directors - everybody steps into their role.

Bill Hader

In 'Winter's Bone,' it's literally the director and the camera operator. That's it. Just a super-small Kubrick crew. You know what I mean? Like, 8 people.

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.

Nicole Holofcener

To say you want to be a director is to risk sounding obnoxious, pretentious, arrogant, and I think women are more fearful of sounding that way than men are.

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.

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.

Tahar Rahim

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

Tahar Rahim

With 'Eagle of the Ninth,' every shot was extremely planned and organized. The director was like, 'Do this!' And I say, 'How was it?' and he says, 'Good.' It was very odd. I would never know where he was headed, or even if he was shooting me at a close-up or from a distance.

Howard Shore

I'm interested in good collaborations and in working with directors who bring something new and interesting out of you.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

Talent has no gender. People are hiring young male directors right out of film school, off of a student film or off of a film at Sundance for millions of dollars. You can do the same with a female. It's not a risk about the work if you respect the film that they made.

Colm Meaney

In the past I've worked with directors who saw very much their scene in their head and knew exactly how they were going to cut it.

Eva Marie Saint

It all has to do with the director, the captain of the ship. He sets the pace, the mood. If the director is quiet, the set is quiet. If the director is loud, then everybody has to be louder to be heard.

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.

Maximilian Schell

When you have the cast, the sets, the lights, an opera takes on its own life. I'm not one of those directors who marches in with a set of plans.

Pierce Brosnan

There's a wonderful stable of directors I've worked with, and work I've done that has dignity and meaningfulness.

Spike Jonze

As a director, you never get to watch other directors work, and you also don't get to collaborate with other directors that much.

Ricky Jay

I've been really lucky in terms of film projects with people, terrific actors and also writers and directors that I really respect.

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.

Marsha Blackburn

Women are running companies, serving as the human resource director of companies, and helping employees solve problems. Women are doctors, lawyers, teachers, sales managers, marketers. They handle problems in the workplace by day and manage their families by night.