Quotes About Directors

I've worked with some actors who have such thick skins and think they are so extraordinary. I'll think, 'Have you stopped learning?' They stop listening to directors or other actors and do the same thing again and again.

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.

I think one third of my work is with first-time directors because I think I should, you know? Really, the difference between a first-time director and a second- or third-time director - I mean there's no director who makes enough movies anyway - but if they're talented, they have it. And there is no movie that is perfect.

There are a lot of directors I'd still love to work with. Paul Thomas Anderson is someone I'd love to work with. I think Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu is very talented. Ang Lee is very talented. I mean, there are a lot of people. There are many great directors out there.

I've recently enjoyed the Paul Thomas Anderson commentaries and the David Fincher commentaries.

I want to work with Wes Anderson, Paul Thomas Anderson, the Coen Brothers, or Spike Jonze.

I never thought I was doing the same thing as directors like John Carpenter, George Romero, and sometimes even Hitchcock, even though I've been sometimes compared to those other guys. We're after different game.

I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.

Our job as directors is to entertain an audience, it's not just to do it for the director. You might as well sit in a white room and look at the movie for the rest of your life - it's ridiculous.

The first thing is that we're being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these groups are trying to diminish the importance and strength of the director. They're trying to do it through both frontal and side attacks.

Fred Allen cast his net wide, and the results look like a meeting of the board of directors in Candy Land. CoreFire floats at the back, obviously impatient with the selection process.

Usually directors hire me because I'm what they are looking for. But once in a while, and it's very rare, they will hire me and then try to make me over.

While complex acting roles are lacking for actresses, what's even more rare are female directors.

A first preview is not exactly a pleasant experience for directors and actors. You're never as raw as when the audience first comes in.

I've reached a point in England where you can't go much further; I would love to come to America and work with some of the interesting directors here.

All directors from the South go back home as failures... I didn't want that to happen to me. So, I became a factory, determined to produce successful goods.

I love being directed, and I feel so grateful to be able to get to work with some of the directors I've worked with.

I guess I gravitate towards stories that I like and directors that I want to work with, and I hope that it works out.

I like female directors that gravitate toward masculine things. I think the danger of a male director is the over-fetishization of the masculinity.

I've had great luck with directors. I've worked with all the great ones.

That is the great pleasure of working with great directors. You get to look at the world through many different prisms. I guess I love talent, whatever form it takes.

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

The great thing about women directors is that they're not only involved in the performances - they can gauge where we all are personally and know how to direct us better because of that.

By contrast, in a member-managed LLC, the members are the shareholders, directors, and officers all at once.