Directors Quotes - Page 27

I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors.

A script is only as good as the director who's making it.

I get to play a great character while working with great actors and great directors on a great show.

For some directors, I'm the actor from hell.

I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director.

I don't have a director. The audience directs me.

If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn't have directors at all.

I believe, as a producer/director, your duty is to create a beautiful horror film that really resonates.

I think it's very boring for a director to always do the same kind of movies.

As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along.

On every movie I’ve done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don’t envy them, at all.

I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.

If I had to choose criteria, for me, it's about first the director. I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually challenging. After the director it's the character and the story. That's the deal for me.

In film school, I knew I wanted to be a director, but I found out pretty damn quickly that nobody was just going to hand me a script to direct.

My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director.

I can't act. I simply must be myself, do the things that seem natural to me. When I get with a director who wants me to act, I'll be lost.

What's interesting is that producers, directors and writers tend to typecast me in terms of whatever movie they've seen me in most recently.

The work is the work. The work is not me. I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films. Even though it's my voice, I'm a storyteller.

The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has.

Now Tarantino is making DJANGO UNCHAINED. Everybody is telling me I am in the movie but I've not been asked by Tarantino officially. Not yet. There were many, many other Django films following mine, with other actors and directors, but there is only one Django.

I don't need a director who's 'good with actors.'...A master manipulator is heaven.

I'd like to decide who comes here. I'd like to be the admissions director of New York.

Do you know what I'm working on now? My first feature as a director.

I don't always see my movies right away. And there are some I haven't seen at all. Sometimes that bothers the directors, so I'm obliged to see them.

I choose movies, I never choose roles. I look at the script. I look at the director. I look at the other actors - and then the role.