Top 1200 Good Director Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

If you want to be a good shot-blocker, you're going to be a good shot-blocker. It's simple. You can't teach it. You're either good at it, or you're not good at it. If you're good at it, then be really good at it.

When you're the director, you kinda do all the work.

As a director he was not that interested in Vader.

As a director, I start with the visual.

You can't be the director of education and plagiarizing.

Being on a film set is like being in tech forever. In theater, when you finally finish rehearsing, you go onstage and you do the lights and the sets and you make the machine of the production work. It takes usually about ten days in the theater, two or three weeks if it's a really big musical. I mean, it's hell on earth. You just sit around forever while they adjust the lights. And every playwright with half a brain runs for the hills when tech starts because it's so boring, and you don't want to talk to the director because the director is running this giant machine.

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

I never wanted to be a director.

I don't want to become a director for hire.

I always dreamt of being a director.

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.

I am a hands-on director.

To be a showrunner and a director is beyond exhausting.

I think Polanski's an amazing director.

As a director you have to - you don't have the option of saying, "I'm not watching this."

It helps for actors if you have one director.

There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.

I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

I don't have a director. The audience directs me.

I'm very director oriented.

I'm the creative director of awesomeness.

I love it when a director says, 'I don't know.'

Mankiewicz was a brilliant director.

I'm a director! I don't work with no amateurs!

Meeting with the director is an audition.

French wines may be said but to pickle meat in the stomach, but this is the wine that digests, and doth not only breed good blood, but it nutrifieth also, being a glutinous substantial liquor; of this wine, if of any other, may be verified that merry induction: That good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.

The best director is the one you don't see.

I think I'm overrated as a director!

I have always been a director at heart.

I am a director's baby.

I don't have the temperament of being a director.

I was a director and dialogue and acting coach.

Drew was a director, and I'm a magician.

Television is a director's medium.

When you're a director, you really live whatever you do.

I'm working at trying to be a Christian and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy?it's serious business. It's not something where you think, Oh, I've got it done. I did it all day, hotdiggety. The truth is, all day long you try to do it, try to be it, and then in the evening if you're honest and have a little courage you look at yourself and say, Hmm. I only blew it eighty-six times. Not bad.

It is awkward to see a director on the screen.

If I'd said, 'I'm going to be a director,' it probably wouldn't have happened.

I need to be on the same page as the director.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

What a casting director does is they're a connector.

To have a director's direct feedback is invaluable.

When I say "The good man gave his good dog a good meal," I use "good" analogically, for there is at the same time a similarity and a difference between a good man, a good dog, and a good meal. All three are desirable, but a good man is wise and moral, a good dog is tame and affectionate, and a good meal is tasty and nourishing. But a good man is not tasty and nourishing, except to a cannibal; a good dog is not wise and moral, except in cartoons, and a good meal is not tame and affectionate, unless it's alive as you eat it.

When it comes to partisan politics, everyone is a hypocrite. And all they care about is whether it hurts or helps them ... Is it good or bad for the Democrats? Is it good or bad for the Republicans? Is it good or bad for Jews, or good or bad for blacks, or is it good or bad for women? Is it good or bad for men? Is it good or bad for gays? That's the way people think about issues today. There is very little discussion of enduring principles.

I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.

I had no plans to be a director.

(When asked what a director does) I help.

In cinema, the leading player is the director.

I was the personnel director there with the Cowboys.

I don't want to repeat myself as a director.

Jose Padilha is a wonderful director.

I'm a believer in trusting the director.

I'm not a writer, director or producer.

I am a complete director's actor.

I Need a Good Book I need a good story. I need a good book. The kind that explodes Off the shelf. I need some good writing, Alive and exciting, To contemplate all by myself. I need a good novel, I need a good read. I probably need Two or three. I need a good tale Of love and betrayal Or perhaps an adventure at sea. I need a good saga. I need a good yarn. A momentous and mightily Or slight one. But with thousands and thousands And thousands of books, I need someone to tell me The right one. -John Lithgow

When I do a film, I follow the director.

My final ambition is to turn director.

My husband's a director, so he understands what I do.

A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.