Top 1200 Good Director Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

When I accept a role, I feel that as an artist I have to submit completely to the tutelage of my director. And while I expect to be heard and encouraged and honored, at the end of the day, man, it's the way the director wants it.

At school, I decided I wanted to be a director and then I went out and spent the rest of my adult life trying to be a director. It was really clear to me. So in that sense I was very lucky.

There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.

The director does not have anyone to blame but himself. He or she cannot hide behind anybody. If a film is a hit, everyone gets the credit, but if it flops, only the director can be blamed.

What a director does... essentially, it's storytelling, but a director also controls the feeling and the sounds and the texture. It's an act of creation, like a symphony or a painting or a story. But with different tools.

A good director creates an environment which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.

I follow the director's lead because they generally know more about the big picture, but I also trust that the director will give me enough freedom to play.

You can do 12 great takes, but if the director is no good, he'll end up picking the wrong one.

As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the silhouette?

When a director you admire says that he wants to work with you, it's always a compliment, very good for your ego.

I definitely managed to do different kinds of things. My focus is usually who the director is, because at the end of the day the director is the storyteller, what the movie is all about. I don't want to participate in something that I don't think is constructive storytelling.

A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.

If there's a good screenplay, there's a chance that something good is going to happen. If you don't have a brilliant screenplay, then you either have amazing actors who give you the chance to improve whatever is on the page, or an interesting director who has enough faith in the project that they can carry it through and get it somewhere.

There are plenty of writers who are going to become a director after their next job, but no one will believe you're a director unless you believe it.

When you get a good script, and the director gives you proper lines, half your job is done.

Filmmaking is a creative process so there is a lot of collaboration that happens on set between an actor and director, but at the end of the day, we're there to actualize the director's vision and things happen organically.

Any good director creates a playground. That's what they do. They hire the right actor, open the door and let them play because stuff will happen, right then and there. The audience wants to believe that what's going on is happening for the first time, ever. That's what acting is. That's what good scene writing is.

Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.

I am being investigated for firing the FBI Director by the man who told me to fire the FBI Director! Witch Hunt.

I will work with a director who has good material because at the end of the day, that's what counts.

I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.

Bradley Cooper was amazing as a director. Like you hope the director is nice, you hope they are cool, and he was at the top of the list.

If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.

When you get to work with a good director, an actor's job gets reduced to half.

Andy was not a director and not a writer. He operated the camera a little bit, and he wasn't even so good at that.

Despite a good subject if the director is not up to the mark, the execution can go wrong.

I read that Hollywood wanted to film Fences years ago with a white director, but [August] Wilson refused. He thought that the director needed to have lived the culture of black Americans.

When you're in the editing room, as a director, you get the opportunity to look at your work. As a writer, you can rewrite. But as an actor, unless you're watching playback, you really rely on the director to help you.

An office party is not, as is sometimes supposed, the Managing Director's chance to kiss the tea-girl. It is the tea-girl's chance to kiss the Managing Director (however bizarre an ambition this may seem to anyone who has seen the Managing Director face on).

The secret is you need a director who refuses to walk away and you need a director willing to put their whole career behind the project.

On various shows, I've been the producing-director, the executive producer-director; and if you were working with the material you love with the right group of people, it's an incredible job to be doing.

As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I can't be that serious about it. Being alone is a big theme in all my movies, both as a director and as an actress.

It's always a good collaboration between the actor and the writer and the director to try stuff out, during the process.

Kabir Khan is that rare director who manages to merge Bollywood formula with a good story.

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. It's not just about admiration for their films, it's how they deal with you, and whether they get you or the way you work. If they don't, you better adjust your way of working to suit them. I want to work with people who are good at what they do, and people who are passionate. As you get older, you suffer fools less easily. That's why there's all those cranky character actors. I'm an exception. I'm a sweetheart.

When I was young, I was like, 'I want to want to work with this director and that director'. I've stopped doing that. You put yourself in a place where you get disappointed.

I've been writing the show with Nigel Coan, the director of 'Luxury Comedy', and Tom Meeten. Three's good. With two, you can lock horns a bit. On your own, you're not sure whether what you've made is any good. I don't know how people write novels. I would go mad.

In the life of a director - these days in particular - when it really does take so long to do a movie, with a few exceptions, actors may never work with a director again, even if they're great friends.

Farah ma'am is so technically strong. She is such a good director and one of the most fun directors.

I think if I wasn't a musician, I would be a high-school band director or orchestra director. I like working with large groups of musicians and bringing out the dynamics and accomplishing something as a team.

My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer, and my mom's a director and writer. Even when I was young, I wanted to be an actress.

After directing movies, I respect any director in this world, because making a movie as a director is tons and tons of work.

I'm not a famous director yet, and I'm not into fame. I like to just work. As a director, as an actor, whatever people consider me is fine with me.

I think a good director casts a film so that the actors bring a lot to the table.

I've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director.

A good director will always identify the actor whom he wants to work with.

I look for the character to be something interesting, the script to have a good story and be original, and a director that I admire.

It is important to be financially savvy when you turn producer. As a director, you just need to have a good script in hand.

I would consider doing any part as long as the script is good and the film has an interesting director.

I like to adapt to a director's way of working. I love doing that. Each director is so different, and you have to adapt to this new way of doing something. That's what's amazing to me. That's why I love directors. I don't want to director to have to work around me. I think it's more fun for me to come in on their thing.

I don't believe in director's cuts and I also don't really believe in deleted scenes because the movie that is in theaters, that's what the director made.

One thing that I have learnt from many senior actors is that you can never take anything for granted. Whether one is working with the best director or a first-time director, every experience teaches you a lot.

With the selection of Acting Secret Service Director Joseph P. Clancy as the director, President Obama has guaranteed that the agency will continue to lurch from one shocking security failure to another.

From the director's point of view, it's infinitely easier to do violence than to do a good dramatic scene.

When I do a film, usually I work from my director. That's my boss. The director is interpreting the writer's vision, and we all interpret it, and they create their own vision as well.

I am excited to work with Vikas. Whenever I tell people that I am doing a film with director of 'Queen,' they are like, 'Wow, good for you.' That makes me feel really good, and I feel fortunate to be the chosen one.

A good actor's director, first of all, is prepared, so there's not an exorbitant amount of wasted footage.

In films, you have to follow the director's vision. Filmmaking is a director's medium. So everything happens as per the script and his vision.

Ultimately, a director is a storyteller. I wanted to fortify that part of my life as a director, so I thought the best way to do that is to study and learn about the greatest stories ever written.

You always have to figure out what the director is good at before you work with them; then you can fill in if need be.