Directors Quotes

I don't know why directors sign on to these projects and completely rewrite everything.

We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as well as male directors perform better. It's unfortunate when companies with a large percentage of women constituents don't reflect that in their boardrooms.

The red directors were one of the main political forces. Another force was the former Soviet ministers who lost everything because of the transformation of the Soviet Union to Russia.

I also get fed up with the fact that casting agents and directors have this impression of me as being frail and petite. I find it very patronizing. I'm quite beefy and strong. I was a gymnast in school and I have lots of muscles.

All the directors that I've had the opportunity to work with are fantastic.

I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.

The time I'm not spending with my kid has to be worth it, so when I sat down with my agents after I was ready to go back to work, I told them: It's all about the directors.

It's not like every director in every movie is seeking me out by any means, there are a lot of things I'm not suited for, a lot of things I'm not interested in, and a lot of things that directors wouldn't be interested in me for.

I don't think many actors are the best judge of careers. I think generally we have good instincts about what we can do in terms of acting. And often they become directors, which I don't want to be.

Most of the great directors I've worked with - De Palma, Spike Lee - like rehearsals.

If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew.

I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.

Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't.

I've never let producers tell me what to do. Even when I was making television, I always did what I wanted to do, and if I couldn't, I didn't do it. It was a freedom that, these days, young directors starting out don't have.

I worked for John Ford, Howard Hawks, Henry Hathaway, Raoul Walsh - I worked for some real good directors.

European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films.

I really liked doing a number of the projects and directors, and etc., etc., I knew about half-way through that I would never be doing that again. It's just not me. I really am happy as a part-time film composer, not a full-time film composer.

The parameters are such that I don't get offered a lot of work. I'm sure most directors hear my list of don'ts and say forget it.

I have a real thing for Mexican directors. And I love Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.

Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays.

The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors.

I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on.

I was on the state board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union.

In a collaborative environment directors hire actors because they want their input, not just their bodies.

As you can probably tell, I like films and directors that bring a totally unique style to filming action.

Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.

Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance.

The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting.

I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.

I wanted to trust in my partners and the directors and producers and do the best I can to deliver what I could deliver.