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Quotes About Directors

People look down on it, but I love the community of horror. Writers and directors are a tight group of people, and we help and support each other.
~ Jason Blum
I don't want to inspire the next generation of tight ends or linebackers to play the game. If I could inspire the next generation of architects and technology leaders and writers and illustrators and film directors, then I feel like I have fulfilled my life purpose.
~ Martellus Bennett
Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.
~ Samantha Morton
That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.
~ Samuel Goldwyn
I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.
~ Michelangelo Antonioni
I'm very fortunate to have the privilege of working with directors like Bill Condon and Paul Thomas Anderson, who I think is one of the greatest filmmakers of our time.
~ Rami Malek
The movie "Ed Wood," about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for "Stargate."
~ Roger Ebert
Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.
~ Jackie Chan
We encouraged volunteers to think of themselves not as people who run errands to keep a program going but as spiritual directors in the lives of students. Chris Folmsbee
~ Mark DeVries
Now, before you make a movie, you have to have a script, and before you have a script, you have to have a story; though some avant-garde directors have tried to dispense with the latter item, you'll find their work only at art theaters.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
A 50-deck PowerPoint presentation of the strategy may impress the board of directors, but it won't impress the competition or angry customers. Execution is the only competitive advantage. Strategy can only be realized through execution.
~ John R. Childress
Four of the directors were there to perform more mundane tasks. Kaufman, Earle, Raskob, and du Pont would supply the requisite start-up funds, but not even those millionaires were willing to put up the cost of the entire undertaking. The issuance of stock was not deemed suitable. They needed a $27.5 million loan. They
~ John Tauranac
But it's cool working with female directors because I'm a girl, so you do relate to them more. You can talk to them about other stuff like clothes and all that.
~ Elle Fanning
Maybe that is the difference between pastoral counselors and spiritual directors. We go to counselors when we want help getting out of caves. We go to directors when we are ready to be led farther in. I
~ Barbara Brown Taylor
I have been extremely lucky to have worked with directors and actors that have made a fabulous impact in Indian cinema and have received some of the nicest compliments ever.
~ Atul Kulkarni
I would like to believe that I am a collaborative actor. That's why I love all the directors I have worked with in recent times, as they are all collaborative directors. I think my constant desire is to keep bettering my own work. I don't get easily satisfied with my work; I am very critical of it. I learn from my mistakes.
~ Deepika Padukone
Outside their country, Hungarian directors have had, from the critics at least, a friendly reception.
~ Tibor Fischer
I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity.
~ Rachel McAdams
I want to pick good projects, I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity. Sanity would be good. I'd like to have a little sanity!
~ Rachel McAdams
I think it's very important to recognize talent in all facets of filmmaking. Making a movie is such a lengthy and intense experience, so it's wonderful to honour actors, directors, producers and all crew members who put so much hard work and passion into a project.
~ Eva Green
Directors say that you should get actors before they are recognized. They will be a pain or have an opinion.
~ Dianne Wiest
You see Mexican cinema in festivals throughout the world, and you see Mexican directors getting recognized at Cannes, at the Oscars, in Berlin, but the question is, What is the end result of that in terms of the market? That's where it's lacking.
~ Diego Luna
I think new directors come with new perceptions, energy, and passion to win. They don't have to worry about an already existing image or budget that they have to recover.
~ R. Madhavan
The way television is done, you're kind of set on a certain path, and then episodic directors come in every week to try to recreate that.
~ Kevin Reilly