Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bryan Cranston

As a director you come in and tell the actors how good they are.

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.

Hal Holbrook

I don't have a director. The audience directs me.

Iain Glen

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

James Cromwell

I prefer to have playback, but sometimes, you can't have that under most circumstances. First, it is expensive because you need a playback operator and secondly, it threatens a lot of directors. I only watch my performance. I see what is necessary for me so that I can see it right at the moment and I can fix it. That appeals to me a great deal.

Jackie Cooper

I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.

Jeremy Piven

There are so many great directors that I haven't worked with and that I would love to work with.

Guillermo del Toro

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We're very, very pleased with the outcome of the vote. It shows that our shareholders were pleased with the directors who were up for reelection...and that's very gratifying.

Baz Luhrmann

There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.

Some directors don't say much. Michael Mann, for example. I remember on 'The Insider' he never had much to say. He would do a scene, just kind of nod, and then set it up to do it again. And you might do a scene 10 or 12 times or more, the same little 31-second bit. And you could tell he wasn't satisfied, but he wouldn't say much.

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.

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.

Dane Cook

When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.

Dabney Coleman

I have worked with some great directors.

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.