Quotes About Director

Mankiewicz was a brilliant director.

As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.

The director had come to Madrid to court me.

I choose movies, I never choose roles. I look at the script. I look at the director. I look at the other actors - and then the role.

I was taken to one place by a director, and he bought me a lap dance.

Working with a great director is like getting a master class in acting.

It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later.

For a director, the most challenging scenes are the dialogue scenes.

You hear stories about directors using manipulation to get actors to do certain things, but I think when you're working with professional actors, it's all about trust. They can do anything you want, it's just a matter of them understanding what you're looking for, and the reason why.

Zhang Yimou is one of the best directors on mainland China.

I'm one of the most successful adult movie directors in the business.

I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.

I would love to work with Cameron Crowe; he's definitely one of my favorite directors.

They call David O. Russell the actor whisperer because he can get stuff out of actors that maybe some other directors can't.

I was, in my day, one of the best directors of episodic TV around.

Stoller is one of my favorite comedic directors - one of my favorite directors that I've worked with to date.

People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film.

There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps.

David Ayer is one of the best directors I've ever worked with. He's a true man's man.

I'm willing to have two directors on the DuPont board, me being one of them.

I think all the actors I've worked with knew that I was an actor. Like, I get into the dirt with my actors and we figure out the rhythm of the scene and how it needs to sound and what the blocking is, the way you would with another actor.

Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel.

A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.

Many times I felt like I'd do better than what the director did, but some of them got a little discouraged because they didn't have full charge of making the film, and sometimes there'd be battles of egos.