Directors Quotes

I have zero tolerance for people who don't come completely prepared. I expect contribution, I expect attendance, and I expect directors to take trips and visit the company's programs.

The directors thought, They understand nothing in the real economy, in real life. They read some stupid books, and they came from the moon to the earth, and maybe in one month they will disappear.

Then I usually leave the choice of the second assistant director and any other assistant directors to the first assistant director, who will choose because he or she is responsible for the conduct and the efficiency of the second assistant directors.

To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.

There aren't many American directors here trying to direct a Japanese yakuza film. When you combine that with the fact that I don't speak much Japanese and this was an independent film I was financing myself - people were curious about what I was doing.

Well, this is the second time I've done New Directors.

You need the words, you need the script, you need the material, you need the commitment, you need the passion, it's like we depend on writers, we depend on producers, directors depend on us and once things are in the divine order as they happen.

We make a contract within ourselves as actors or directors or writers about how much of ourselves we let into projects. You can actually figure out before you work on something how much blood you will have to let emotionally.

I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.

It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.

In the past I've worked with directors who saw very much their scene in their head and knew exactly how they were going to cut it.

When we did concerts, we wanted them to be theatrical events - collaborations with designers, choreographers, and directors - because we thought traditional rock concerts were boring.

Awards are important for all directors because they improve your working conditions. You're only as good as your last film, so if you get prizes or large audiences, then you get more money for your next film.

I have worked with some very great directors.

It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance.

Everything is entertainment; criticism is now entertainment and it seems that the French directors have woken up one day and suddenly realised that they were not backed up any more.

To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision.

I love being on sets with very seasoned directors as well as very new directors. Every time is a discovery process. You learn something new every time.

You have to remind casting directors out here that you don't just do one thing. There's a lot of people who do just one thing.

I deal with guys in their 20s and early 30s who are presidents of companies, who are movie directors.

All of the directors I've worked with I have loved and would work with again. I have no favorites.

Do you know what directors go through? It's just hell. Like, why do I work so hard - to think I'm only going to see this movie five times and then never see it again 'cause I'm so sick of it? What is it worth, honestly?

Twelve years on sets watching directors, I've taken a bit from everybody and rejected a lot.

What I always meant by that was that I do believe that a lot of directors, and writers, and sometimes producers just lose their edge because they haven't seen anybody or talked to anybody or been with anybody who isn't a kind of replica of themselves for a long period of time.

Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often.

Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.

I have worked with some great directors.

A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director that I've admired knew exactly what he wanted to do. They didn't sit there and think about it.

All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They listen to ideas and make people feel like everyone is making the film.