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Quotes About Directors

I have always been up for risks, but only because I had full confidence and faith in the vision of my directors.
~ Abhay Deol
Financiers don't support their directors to cast properly. They don't have the vision of an artist. They're casting to spreadsheets, and it's making movies very mediocre. The movie business used to just be called the movies. Now it should be the business movies.
~ Patricia Arquette
All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They listen to ideas and make people feel like everyone is making the film.
~ Steve Buscemi
I want to work with great directors. I've picked films based on the script or the character and seen them collapse because the directors were not strong visionaries.
~ Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Earlier, actors had a lot of power in their hands. And now, it has gone in the hands of the directors and writers, and that is how it should be. They are the visionaries, and we are the doers.
~ Bhumi Pednekar
There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
What I learned was it does not matter how much support you have in the boardroom, from the directors, the executives: you have to get results, and you have to win.
~ Brendan Rodgers
Working with directors like Gurinder Chadha was a learning experience for me.
~ Huma Qureshi
I've learnt on set with different directors I've worked with.
~ Rohit Saraf
There are a few directors - quite a few - who I would like to work with, but I have never written a letter to a director in my life.
~ Udo Kier
I was really lucky and blessed to have had the likes of directors such as Mani Ratnam and Rajkumar Hirani in my career.
~ R. Madhavan
At the end of the day, I have a lot of ideas. I cannot give them to clubs I play for because they have their own ideas - their own sporting directors, their own general managers - of what they want to do. When you have your own ideas, the only way you can execute them is to get a club yourself.
~ Demba Ba
Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.
~ Jackie Chan
You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience.
~ Steven Bochco
I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.
~ Gabrielle Union
It's fair to say that if you have a lot of experience, your power is greater. You have more of an opportunity to roll up your sleeves with younger directors.
~ Willem Dafoe
Top Stock brokers are able to plunder the investors money because of inaction by regulator SEBI's top directors year after year
~ Unknown
It grieves me ofttimes to see poor souls, that have a zeal for God and a desire of eternal welfare, kept by such directors and directions under a hard, burdensome, outside worship and service of God, with many specious endeavours for mortification, in an utter ignorance of the righteousness of Christ, and unacquaintedness with his Spirit, all their days.
~ John Owen
They needed contractors whose reputations were unsullied, builders who were honest and could get the job done as promised. The directors asked five builders to appear before them in Smith's office in the Biltmore Hotel to discuss the job and to make proposals.
~ John Tauranac
Less than two weeks after the selection of the architects had been made, the directors awarded the building contract to Starrett Bros. & Eken.
~ John Tauranac
I never rewatch the great films of my favorite directors because I'm afraid they won't hold up.
~ John Waters
Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine.
~ Kenneth Anger
Working with Nancy Meyers ("Something's Gotta Give") and ... Charles Shyer ("Father of the Bride"), and I'm proud of "Reds," and I'm proud of my movies with Woody (Allen).
~ Diane Keaton
I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid.
~ Tommy Lee Jones