Directors Quotes - Page 6

• Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.

  Todd Solondz

  Actors

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies.

  John Frankenheimer

  Assistants, Lasts, Seven

  7 Copy quote

• I don't even know if I can call myself a director.

  Charles S. Dutton

  Knows, Ifs, I Can

  7 Copy quote

• Many French directors, having now realised there was no more real criticism, that the standards of the past have gone, are very offended about the quality of film criticism.

  Wim Wenders

  Real, Past, Criticism

  "Wim Wenders talks with WSWS: 'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I get to play a great character while working with great actors and great directors on a great show.

  Harry Hamlin

  Character, Play, Actors

  7 Copy quote

• I get crushes on directors because they are so brilliant.

  Dorothy Malone

  Crush, Brilliant, Brilliant Ideas

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Europe, Back When, Call Me

  7 Copy quote

• Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.

  Aaron Eckhart

  Looks, Producers

  7 Copy quote

• When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.

  James Dean

  Inspirational, Motivational, Following Instructions

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art.

  Jock Sturges

  Country, Art, Museums

  8 Copy quote

• And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy a director of category B, not a big director.

  Claudia Cardinale

  Individualism, Bigs, Categories

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2003.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.

  Jodie Foster

  Psychology, Shooting, Firsts

  8 Copy quote

• As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors.

  Chow Yun-Fat

  Actors, Factories, Workers

  "Working in Front of the Camera Keeps Me Alive'". Interview with Stephen Short, content.time.com. December 27, 1999.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Clint Eastwood is an extraordinary director because he knows the value of a buck. He knows where it will show on the screen.

  Angela Lansbury

  Bucks, Shows, Extraordinary

  7 Copy quote

• There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.

  Sean Penn

  Theatre, Excitement, Spending

  9 Copy quote

• There are a lot of directors who are knowledgeable about images, and others who aren't.

  Conrad Hall

  Knowledgeable

  7 Copy quote

• Directors never give you anything.

  Claudia Christian

  Giving

  7 Copy quote

• I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Art, History, Body

  1956 In Newsweek,11 Jun.

  31 Copy quote

  Show source

• Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.

  Alan Parker

  People, Want, Littles

  Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2000.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I should mention that I am a member of the board of directors of Dimensional Fund Advisors.

  Merton Miller

  Boards, Should, Advisors

  60 Copy quote

• Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Ambiguity, Deals, Hard

  7 Copy quote

• I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.

  Elia Kazan

  Littles, Unusual, Dangerous

  12 Copy quote

• All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Funny, Girl, Humor

  My Autobiography ch. 10 (1964)

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Jim Brooks is a very powerful director and it was a lot of intense work.

  Tea Leoni

  Powerful, Intense, Brooks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I would love to have a part opposite a great actor - like, say, Pacino or De Niro or Hoffman. And to work with a top director. That's my dream.

  Jon Lovitz

  Dream, Opposites, Actors

  8 Copy quote