Top 1200 Good Director Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Don't try to guess what a casting director wants.

I am discovering myself as a director all the time.

I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director.

I never thought of myself as a TV director.

I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.

I travel light as a director. I don't have monitors on my set.

I've realized my best and worst critic is my director.

I'm a walk-on guy. When the director says, 'Action,' I'm on.

You need a director, a script, and a role to justify a risk.

I've been really lucky not to have a duff experience with a director.

I knew my limitations even when I was a music director.

It is the director's vision, and as actors, we are just extensions of that.

There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, then all at once it gets awkward.

A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.

Paul Verhoeven might be my favorite director, and I'm serious.

It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.

Let us prove to the world that good taste, good art, and good writing can be good selling.

For me, there was never an end game for becoming a director.

As a director, you can transform your vision more with the music.

My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.

I think every director has a different methodology.

The relationship between a director and an editor in documentaries is so important.

I am equally a writer and an actor and a director.

If I trust a director, I don't even listen to the script.

As a director, people are trusting you with their lives, with their stories.

The longer I've been a director, the less I have to 'direct.'

No one is infallible. I am not the only director who has flopped.

It was a great experience to work with director A. L. Vijay.

I love Sam Mendes. He's a fantastic director.

I don't think you can be a director without a kind of sense of competitiveness.

I don't even know if I can call myself a director.

The audience has always been my best director.

Good girls don't hurt other people's feelings. Good girls are not overly aggressive, competitive, or boastful. Good girls please others. But what good girls are good for is another question.

For a director, a musical is a special kind of hell.

As a director, it is important to understand the actor's process.

You never want to be the director who dropped the ball, you know?

The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized.

I'm a control freak, so that's why I became a director.

I am happy writing and being a producer not a director.

When I die and go to hell, the devil is going to make me the marketing director for a cola company. I’ll be in charge of trying to sell a product that no one needs, is identical to its competition, and can’t be sold on its merits. I’d be competing head-on in the cola wars, on price, distribution, advertising, and promotion, which would indeed be hell for me. Remember, I’m the kid who couldn’t play competitive games. I’d much rather design and sell products so good and unique that they have no competition.

A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.

I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.

I went to graduate school for directing at AFI in L.A., and I wanted to be a director.

As a director who loves the camera you learn a lot.

Karan Malhotra is an amazing director, but he's strict.

I don't judge director on the basis of their last film.

There's no doubt about Prakash's abilities as a director.

Marvel has this tradition, and I think that Sony has this tradition too, of hiring directors for Spider-Man who are dramatic directors. That are directors who are interested in human beings, in characters, in drama, and who are really good with actors. That kind of feels like a Spider-Man director to me. And because Spider-Man is always as big as the films that are being made at Marvel, it always is character and story. You can never take that out.

Having a connection and chemistry with a director is really key.

Every actor or director has their ups and downs.

It's a dream for a director, at least to try a studio movie.

The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior.

As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic.

I'm not really a guy who wants to be a director, anyway.

Sometimes it's the script or an opportunity to work with an incredible director.

I would like to have a managerial career as a director.

You have to be flexible according to patterns and needs of director.

You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.

I think I'm a director that is very easily misunderstood.

My job as the director is to make that as authentic as I can and not to disturb the revelry.