Quotes About Directors

I've worked with a lot of great directors.

A lot of directors understand everything but the story.

I just really want to continue to play those roles where I really have something to do, and mainly, above all, work with people that I can learn from - directors I think are so great.

I have worked with some great directors.

It's an embarrassment of riches because you have directors who don't better. You end up with so much stuff going on the screen that you don't know where to look, and that's what I consider self-indulgent.

I'd say a good couple of my closest male friends are directors.

I've certainly worked with really great directors who haven't acted.

I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.

Bad directors are the ones who want to tell you every move, and think they're a better actor than you.

I think every director has a different take, some are good, some are bad. The directors you get on best with sometimes don't make the best films, so who's to say who is right.

Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.

I have worked with some very great directors.

Well, this is the second time I've done New Directors.

Sometimes the directors were afraid of what they brought out of me.

A lot of young directors, they're not confident; they're not open to the emotional level of the scene.

I guess I like a lot of directors. Or at least I try to.

I've worked with very few directors who've asked of me what I asked of myself.

I can count on one hand the directors who actually directed me.

I worked for a lot of directors.

Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women.

Directors never give you anything.

If Martin Scorsese calls, I am available. And then there the ones, well, you can just run down the list - any of those Oscar-nominated films, they have amazing directors across the board.

I can't stand directors who try to micro-manage everything. When it happens these days I just walk off set, saying if they don't like the way I'm doing it they can get someone else.

If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn't have directors at all.