Quotes About Directors

I feel some responsibility, being one of the few women directors who are being given opportunities. Sometimes, that makes me want to take on some big franchise because I want to show people that women can do it.

Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.

Facts are, directors are not thinking of me; they think I only act in my films, because they're stupid. Or they think I'm a control freak, that I will try to, I don't know, pimp their scripts and just change everything, which I will never do.

I am fine working with debutant directors. They have a freshness about them.

As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does.

I was influenced by people like David Fincher and William Friedkin, and these directors who kinda paint their films with these dark shades.

Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and directors are more willing... to allow people to stretch. In movies, you do one thing, and then that's their reference.

Chekhov directors and Chekhov actors love working on his plays because there seems to be no end to what you can find out about the micro-narrative when you're investigating a text.

I thank my directors who keep faith in my acting credentials and give me roles like I did in 'Uyir' and 'Dhanam.'

I haven't made a career off my looks, thank God, but hopefully how I've moved people emotionally, the directors I've been able to work with, and the stories I've been a part of.

I'm singularly lucky to have worked with directors who dared me to take risks and be different and I am thankful to the Indian film industry for giving me my primary identity.

Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.

The secret of success in cinema lies in not just being talented but showcasing your talent to the audience. And, that happens only when you get the right films and directors.

I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors.

I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.

I was one of the artistic directors of the Steppenwolf Theatre, which me and many dear buddies started all the way back in 1974, and I have a lot of that in my makeup.

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

I think theatre helped, only because it was acting experience. I got to work with a lot of directors.

On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre.

I'm a student. I want to do better, and I want directors who can find the actress in me and be my teachers. I'm interested in the whole process of editing, post-production and direction.

The idea of Plato that philosophers must be the rulers and directors of society is practiced in India.

meetings. (There are few public documents more indiscreet than proxy statements, in which the precise private stockholdings of directors must be listed.)

Actors rarely stay in touch with directors after they've filmed together. We go back to real life.

Look what I know about directing; is it goes beyond gender. You might see some qualities that are inherently female in the great male directors.