Top 1200 Good Director Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I am a director. I'm the one who can order men around.

All the director wants is their idea of the movie to be believed in.

No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.

Neeraj Pandey is a very smart director.

I have no ambition to be a technical director or TV pundit.

When you hire good people, and you provide good jobs and good wages and a career, good things are going to happen.

You are the executive director and screenwriter of your life.

I have no ambitions at all! I have none... seriously. I want to be a good father. I want to be a good husband. I want to be a good son, a good brother, a good family member. I don't have any ambition to direct a film or write a play. I like acting.

To work with the same director is a great feeling.

As a director, what I'm trying to do is to create interesting stories.

The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet.

One of the good thing about theater in the states, is that the playwright we do have a say, especially in the beginning, when the play is being discussed around the table. We talk about the play, and the actors listen, and there have been cases, you disagree on something... I mean, actors don't usually tell you what they're going to do, they do it. Of course, you try to speak with the director and say, "Is there any way you can bring this actor to do something different?" You try as much as you can, but then, you also have to be open to interpretation.

You don't realize it, but often people are frightened of the director.

It's an important thing to have a relationship with the director, and have it be a positive one.

It is not easy to find the right story and director.

I always say that I'm not the director, I'm part of the team.

The best films are because of nobody but the director.

Sirk was every woman's dream of a director.

All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.

In today's society, looking good and feeling good often trumps doing good and being good. And some people don't know the difference anymore.

Every casting director I've met is a woman.

I see what's behind everything the director wants to do.

We know smoking tobacco is not good for kids, but a lot of other things aren't good. Drinking's not good. Some would say milk's not good.

When I read the script [of Good Kill], it read like a science fiction film. And Andrew [writer/director Andrew Niccol] is known for sci-fi. But when I spoke to him, he said this picture was 100% factual, which blew my mind. I realized then how little I knew about the drone program. And I felt that, if I knew so little about it, there must be others who should be educated about what's going on.

Hear good things, see good, do good, think good, then you get the Grace of God, as all the evil tendencies will be uprooted.

To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.

I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director.

I started as an artist and I had a side job moving some heavy boxes for a publishing company. They had just gotten a Mac for their art department, the department that creates the book covers. I was kind of showing the art director a thing or two about how to use a Mac. And one day everyone went out to lunch and I jumped on the computer and designed a book jacket and slipped it in the pile to go to the review board in New York. They picked my jacket and when the art director got back to Boston, he wanted to know who designed it and I said, "Me." He was like, "The box guy?"

I'm keen to do as little or as much reading and watching as the director may advise, and often off that you kind of stem into other things that you find of influence, perhaps the things that you're watching. It's a good excuse to get to know a new profession, or a new approach, or a new era. It's about authenticity. It's about having the confidence to really feel that you're saturated and know the world you're about to step into and understand the person you're about to be.

If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.

As a director, you're open to any kind of criticism.

Every director is themselves; [they're] not playing a part.

Every director has a labour-of-love project.

Perhaps I'll work as a director of football. I don't know.

I started as a director and just fell upon acting.

A film is the director's medium. The theater is an actor's.

A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.

A director is a choreographer, both politically and creatively.

I'm an actress who likes a strong, communicative director.

I am the best film director in the world.

I want to try and be instinctive as a writer and director.

As a director, if you know what you want, then it's not scary.

Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.

In Spain we have a saying about the essentials of life: good food, good wine, good sex, good sleep.

If you look at what Ben Affleck has gone on to do, as an actor and as a director, it's extraordinary. But if you look back at his career, I don't think it's surprising. From Good Will Hunting on down, the guy is a monster talent, and I think talent wins out, in the end. There's always the ebb and flow of any career, but I think talent wins out, in the end.

I would not be good with someone who did drugs. As long as I know something, I can deal with anything. I'm really good. But what I'm not good with is inconsistency. And I'm not good with not knowing.

I don't want to be a director, or to have responsibility for hundreds of people.

What I have to offer as a writer/director is the stuff with the feeling in it.

Working with a female director has great perks.

Most development doesn't make it to series. So you want the writer and director to have a really good experience with development because, if it doesn't work out, you want to work with them again. You have to know their work really well, know the drafts really well, and when you give notes, you need to have really thought them through.

I'd like to make movies as a producer and a director.

I think there is more cohesion when you have one director on set.

Sirk was every womans dream of a director.

I don't really need a lot of help from a director.

Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.

We have good corporals and good sergeants and some good lieutenants and captains, and those are far more important than good generals.

If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.

I really love being finance director.

The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.

When I grow up, I still want to be a director.