Best 1750 quotes in «directors quotes» category

A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.

ADMIRABLY BOLD. There's something grand about the film's sincerity and the intensity of its emotions and something fresh and bold about the way director Gray uses the conventions of romantic melodrama.

A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.

A director recommended me for the role on 'Soap.' They said, 'She plays heavy roles, murderesses and the like.' He said, 'On stage, she could be very very funny.

A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

A director once said, when I was complaining about something or other, "I agree, it is terrible. The worst thing you can do to an actor is give him a job." That shut me up and broke off a big hunk of my actor's cynical armor.

A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.

A director on a film really sets the tone of how people go about things, so everybody is happy to be at work and everybody does their best.

Adrienne [ Shelly] had 100 per cent control over this movie [ Waitress] as a director. She didn't just write it, direct it and act in it, she was the creative force behind everything, from the jokes down to the expressions.

A fantastic actor in a scene that's just closed off will be good. But when working with a director who knows little tricks - correct music, slowly pushing in - that stunning performance will somehow become even better. I've always seen it as a symbiotic relationship.

A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.

A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.

A film actor is just a victim of directors and editors.

A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.

A film is the director's medium. The theater is an actor's.

After directing movies, I respect any director in this world, because making a movie as a director is tons and tons of work.

After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled: “She can't talk! She can't act! She's sensational!”

After I saw a couple of pictures put out by my fellow comedy-directors, which seemed to have abandoned the fun in favor of the message, I wrote Sullivan's Travels to satisfy an urge to tell them that they were getting a little too deep-dish, to leave the preaching to the preachers.

After you do a showcase for agency managers and casting directors and you get this folder and some people had a folder that was thick and some people had a folder that was thin. And there's no fairness to it because it's not a fair business.

A good actor's director, first of all, is prepared, so there's not an exorbitant amount of wasted footage.

A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.

A good director has to be a captain - he has to work with a lot of people every day.

A good director is very well prepared, and knows exactly how he's going to cut the film, so the shooting is as efficient as possible.

A good [film] director is talented, imaginative, and does his homework.

[Alfred] Hitchcock was very interested in the image on the screen.As is any good cinema director. That is the language they speak. It is not literature, it is images on screen.

A good script and a good brief from the director is enough to let me know what is expected of me.

[Alejandro González Iñárritu] went from Birdman to this - these are incredible ledges that he's stepping out on in making these films [The Revenant]. I think his only threat for best director is Room, to be honest.

All directors should have to act and all actors should have to direct, so that they can understand all these key things that come into play with whether you can meet your day.

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.

All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.

All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.

All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that you have a script and it's very linear.

All the directors that I've had the opportunity to work with are fantastic.

All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do, it's not very loud. That doesn't mean I don't like the movie.

All I wanted to do was be a professional film director with a body of work, and you're going to make some good films, some bad and some indifferent. You don't set out to make a dog, you set out to make something good. But I like them all.

All of the directors I work with have their own unique gifts. My particular segment deals with online dating. It's a very interesting take on it, and a great observation of what goes on there.

All the films are hits before you turn the camera on. It's only in the execution that they fail. I've been less than happy with the way a couple of films were edited, but it's a director's prerogative and you gotta go with it.

All the great advances in cinema came about from technology. The 3-D camera was not invented by a movie director. The new industries are driven by the innovations in science and technology.

All these directors who do different locations forget that one room can be shot from a million different angles and a million different ways. When I direct a movie, I'm going to use that.

All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.

A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.

A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty.

A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.

A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it.

A lot of new American directors have had mentors who have given them advice. And some of them have had the way paved for them by huge Hollywood directors who saw a younger version of themselves.

A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy.

A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director that I've admired knew exactly what he wanted to do. They didn't sit there and think about it.

A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them. It looks like cunning, but you try to get extra things from them all the time, by stealth, by making them feel confident, so they trust you and you can push a bit.