Directors Quotes - Page 14

• In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Film Directing, Documentary Films, Documentaries

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.

  Jackie Cooper

  Wells, One Thing

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• Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal.

  Charles Bronson

  Looks, Casting, Masculine

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 1971.

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• Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything.

  Molly Parker

  Feelings, Insecurity, Know How

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• One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

  Alan Rickman

  Imagination

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• There are times when directors just don't know what they're doing.

  Christopher Atkins

  Knows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Film Directing, Filmmaking, Filmmaker

  Quoted in Halliwell's Filmgoer's and Video Viewer's Companion (1999).

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• Love who and what you are and what you do.

  Louise Hay

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• I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Directing Movies, Gender, Filmmaker

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

  Alan Cumming

  Film, Film Directors

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• I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.

  Eric Bogosian

  Bricks And Mortar, House, Actors

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• Obviously, if a director doesn't communicative a clear, relevant vision of the material, it will not succeed no matter how good the material.

  Tom Skerritt

  Talking, Vision, Matter

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• When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present.

  Stanley Crouch

  Want, Artistic, Program

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• A director is a choreographer, both politically and creatively.

  William Shatner

  Choreographers

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• Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted? And If I am compelled to take part in it, where is the director? I want to see him.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Philosophy, Umpires, World

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• It's an important thing to have a relationship with the director, and have it be a positive one.

  Trevor Rabin

  Relationship, Important, Important Things

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• The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it.

  Jim Dale

  Joy, Boss, Owners

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think that's the key to being a director: to be able to get the shot and move on quickly.

  Bobby Farrelly

  Moving, Thinking, Keys

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• Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.

  Barry Pepper

  Prison Guards, Casting, Snipers

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• Sometimes the directors were afraid of what they brought out of me.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Sometimes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Charles S. Dutton

  Actors, Want, More Money

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

  Richard Farnsworth

  Real, Fog, Hawks

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• I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors.

  Jonathan Frakes

  Stars, Thinking, Actors

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• My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.

  Orson Scott Card

  Eye, College, Training

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• I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.

  Sam Mendes

  Believe, Thinking, Actors

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