director quotes

• I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer. (Ben Hecht) [movie/movie/director]
• My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. (Cole Porter) [inspiration/director]
• The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents. (Orson Welles) [director/director/take/day]
• First of all I work out, second of all the Director of Photography on our film is amazing and I told him if any cellulite shows I will kill him! (Denise Richards) [director/film/willpower]
• It's very funny, and we really laughed a lot while we were making it and I could always tell how happy the director was by how hard he laughed behind the monitor. (Liv Tyler) [director]
• not smart animals, which is why people do get bit once in a while. I was wearing a wet suit that was silver. So when I move around, it believed my head was a fish. So this shark with his mouth open was coming towards my head. I pushed it away because I freaked out. And the director later told me that that was happening to my double all day. He was like, 'I wasn't sure if it was going to happen to you.' I'm like, 'Thanks for the heads up!' (Jessica Alba) [animals/people/director/day]
• 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. (Aaron Eckhart) [love/actors/director/director]
• I can't answer for what the director or the studio do. (Alan Rickman) [director]
• One longs for a director with a sense of imagination. (Alan Rickman) [director/imagination]
• Sometimes you see a film and make a mental note that you want to work with that particular director. (Alan Rickman) [film/director]
• It seemed so random at times. Like, 'Why am I reading your Bible?' But it's a very generous, brave way for a director to work. (Barry Pepper) [reading/director]
• In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression. (Bela Lugosi) [director]
• I am a first-time director given an opportunity to pursue an artistic ambition I would not likely have the chance to elsewhere. The budget is excruciatingly tight, I am regularly abused and I expect to be fired sometime before we shoot. It's nice to see that, at Miramax, continuity has been maintained. (Ben Affleck) [director/chance/nice]
• If the director wishes to print it, then you have a series of choices, maybe millions of choices within that minute-and-a-half, or 80 seconds, or 2 minutes or however long or short the take is, you have all those choices committed to celluloid. I find that absolutely thrilling. (Ben Kingsley) [director/take/find]
• There's probably a young director, male or female, out there somewhere, I don't even know their names, but maybe I'm destined to work with them, and we'll have an extraordinary relationship. I would love to work with Claire Denis because I think she's extraordinary. (Ben Kingsley) [director/love/think]
• I think that really the director should try and shape what is there. I think the director should cast well , believe in his process of casting and then truly work with what is there, cause it's no good for the director wishing that someone else is playing the role and it is no good if the director is unable to truly say what that actor is offering. (Ben Kingsley) [think/director/think/director]
• I think a great director is able to conclude things with grace... and I remember Gandhi ending in a very similar way. (Ben Kingsley) [think/director/remember]
• In cinema, the leading player is the director. (Ben Kingsley) [director]
• You simply can't write stuff like this. It's that great for a director. (Bill Paxton) [director]
• The wonderful thing about golf for a director is that it is inherently cinematic and dramatic. In a tournament the golfers are like gunslingers. (Bill Paxton) [thing/golf/director]
• I wish I could say that when I didn't agree with a director I defer to him, but I think sometimes I'm a little self-righteous. (Billy Crudup) [wish/director/think]
• As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is. (Billy Crystal) [director/character/moment]
• It could be a great script but the director is not the right person for me to work for at this time. So there are a lot of elements that come into play and a lot of variables, but more than anything it's got to be a great script and a great character. (Blair Underwood) [director/right/time/more]
• I'm as happy as any director who's tormented by everything they had to change. (Bruce Campbell) [director/change]
• I know what I need as an actor and I trust my instincts about scripts, but I'd be seriously lacking technically, as a director. (Christopher Eccleston) [trust/seriously/director]
• I feel like my career is in its infancy. My father once told me that I had a baby face - my father is a director. (Dean Cain) [career/face/director]
• My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, they're storytellers because they're directing where your focus is going to be as an audience. (Dennis Quaid) [director]
• My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. (Dennis Quaid) [director]
• The first time, I read for a casting director and I don't think I gave him what he wanted, but he had me back two weeks later. After I was done he said, "Come back next Thursday." So I came back for a third time. But the next thing you know, the project shut down. (Derek Luke) [time/director/think/time]
• The director is 16 hours a day for a whole year and it's so much work and so much stress - it becomes your life. (Devon Sawa) [director/day/stress/life]
• From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker. (Donnie Yen) [experience/action/director/being]

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