Quotes About Director

Just being hired by a great director is complimentary.

The director respects what they've hired you for and chosen you for: to do the part and respect what you're doing.

In feature films, unless there was a body count, they weren't hiring me to direct it.

Kabir Khan is a director who goes out of his way to make his actors comfortable. He's very chilled out. He makes the environment on set very casual and friendly.

So, Hitchcock wouldn't say anything about my work in the movie but, on the other hand, he wouldn't complain, either.

You can watch any Hitchcock film and be blown away.

Who was the real Hitchcock? I interviewed him once and haven't a clue.

Hitchcock was one of the few people in Hollywood who had a brand. Every movie he made was an Alfred Hitchcock movie, couldn't have been anyone else.

I would have loved to have been in a Hitchcock movie.

Mr. Hitchcock knew what he was doing.

When you watch a Hitchcock movie, you feel like learning back because there's a master in control.

I have enjoyed the films directed by Prabhu Deva and simply love his choreography. And he is the best dancer India has. I feel he knows what the audience wants, and that is why the films he has directed are hits.

I was the first person in the world to audition for 'The Hobbit'. The casting director told me that when I went in. That's a lot of pressure, isn't it? The first person in the world.

Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.

I had started doing small community theater shows in my hometown of Cleveland. I did a lot of shows there before I met this director who told me, 'Listen, I really think you could be on Broadway.' And I was like, 'No, that's crazy.' I didn't believe it... I was 9, maybe 8 years old at the time, and I was like, 'No. No way.'

I have never done homework and have always left the details to the director. This holds true from my first film 'Naache Mayuri' to 'Naagin.'

I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.

My dad was a theater actor, so I would follow him backstage. And my mom was a casting director. The moment I heard the applause and realized it would get me out of school, I was hooked.

I love film because you have the last word. I never get that on stage because you've got to really believe; you've got to get the actors to trust you, and they have to believe in you, and then hopefully they will when you open the show.

There is a director for a reason, because a director knows what's best for the movie. You just give your director as much as you can to work with, and hopefully, the decisions they make are going to be great.

I'm not a director to make an action or horror film. That's not for me.

Rituparno Ghosh is a legendary director, and I happen to be a huge fan of his.

In 'Badlapur,' my character's name is Jhumli. It's a special film for me because I got a chance to work with my favourite director, Sriram Raghavan. I'm a huge fan of him.

I love John Hughes films.