Top 1200 Good Director Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The director has to win, because you should never force a director to shoot something they don't believe in.

A good director makes a playground and allows you to play.

I have my pride. I'm a director. I'm not going to go and recreate some other director's vision.

The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.

When it's a good director, you can feel when they trust you when they cast you.

It's good to work with a writer-director.

Inarritu's own nomination for Best Director for 'Babel' was the first such honor for a Mexican director.

And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy a director of category B, not a big director.

A director is a director. Man or woman should matter little.

I'm not particularly fond of the hybrid writer-director or actor-director.

Also a good director and good dialogue. That's very important because you're bringing the words to life. So it's very important for an actor to have good dialogue.

I don't take anything for granted from any director. I am just a slave of my director.

I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director.

The best directing style is the one that lets me do whatever I want. Seriously though, I like to be challenged and I like to collaborate. I love finding the medium between what I think and what a director does. I hate when a director uses the "my way or the highway" approach. But it also sucks when they tell you everything you do is great and offer no input. It's a fine line a director has to walk. It is a hard job.

Recently I have been spending my lunch with other game directors playing over local connection battle in Spirit Tracks. It is very good to do that in order to facilitate better communications between us. I have been partnering with the director of the Spirit Tracks to fight against the director of the new Wii game and yes, recently we have been winning!

I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.

Your actors need to trust you as a director, but normally, I think you just need to have an open communication between the actors and the director. I think the director needs to really paint his or her vision to the cast and let them know the kind of mood that he or she is making. I think that's very important.

I don't see myself as a short-film director, and I'm not a commercial director.

Somebody who likes to do my plays is a good director for them.

The director's very important to me, particularly when the director has a recognizable style.

When you do a rewrite, it's really about serving the director's vision, and what the director needs to go into that script.

I don't know what I'm qualified to do, film-wise... So it's really down to a director or a casting director to find something that they think I could do.

Miloš Forman is a great director; Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.

A good writer takes time to go in-depth into a subject and then comes out with a good script. Then it's the job of the actor and director to improvise with it and make it even better.

I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.

When you have a good director, it's just wonderful.

When you're a director you always feel weird with another director watching over your shoulder.

If a director is really a director, I think he's interested in more than one thing.

Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.

Matching character and actor is what a good director does.

A script is only as good as the director who's making it.

Pooja Bhatt is a very good director.

When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.

Any movie's only as good as the director.

When you have a good director, everything is taken care of.

A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.

I'm very old-school. I like a director to direct me. I like to be the actor. I'm not particularly fond of the hybrid writer-director, or actor-director. Writers, directors, actors are all such very different people. I think it's unusual that two of those people are in one human.

One thing which no one knows about me is I could be very good director. Although I have not directed any movie so far but I am sure the day I start it, I would be very good at it.

It's madness to hand in a script to a director, leave them alone, and for the director not to want the writer there with rehearsals and the shoot.

I'm not a great director or an auteur; I'm an ensemble director. I do think I can get wonderful performances out of actors.

The producer can put something together, package it, oversee it, give input. I'm the kind of producer that likes to take a back seat and let the director run with it. If he needs me, I'm there for him. As a director, I like to have the producer there with me. As a producer, I don't want to be there because I happen to be a director first and foremost, I don't want to "that guy."

What I like in pictures whether by an old director or a young director is when I have the feeling he or she is really using the capacity of film.

As a director you come in and tell the actors how good they are.

Above all, a director has to be a good captain.

One of the challenges of being a director is often you don't get to work with your peers. You know, writers can write together, and as a director you get to work with so many wonderful actors and writers and designers. But it's pretty rare that you get a chance to partner in that way with another director.

There is always a collaboration between the director and the actors, and you always have to listen as the actors have to listen to you as a director. In the end, you as a director, of course, are the captain on the ship.

The director is as good as the actor and vice versa.

I don't really consider myself a horror director or a violent director at all.

The respect for a musical score must come from the director... If the director has no power and has to surrender to budgetary constraints, this is where we have the problem.

The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.

My greatest strength as an actor is that I follow my director's brief completely. The film is always the director's visual baby.

I aspire to be an instrument of the director. I'm happiest like that. The stronger the director, the more I'm willing to give them.

I am a director's actor. It is a director's medium, definitely. That doesn't mean I stop using my head.

When I on set as a director I crazy. My temper is not that good.

My director Shakun Batra, I believe, is one of the finest in the industry and he has been the dream director I've always wanted to work with.

If you're good at your job, you're good at your job regardless of being male, female, whatever. Either you're a good director or you're not, and there are plenty of bad male directors.

A male director doesn't come to situations the same way that a female director would.

I joke around sometimes and say that the DP [director of photography] is like a shrink for the director, but there's some truth in there.

Krishna Vamsi is a very good director.

Because I've made a film with such an amazing director as Tarantino, I'm much more conscious of working with good directors from now on, so that's what's important to me. I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.