Directors Quotes - Page 6

Every actor. every director, everybody needs an Oscar. You have to have that little statue in Hollywood or else you are nothing.

The director is the only person on the set who has seen the film. Your job as a director is to show up every day and know where everything will fit into the film.

My philosophy is that to be a director you cannot be subject to anyone, even the head of the studio. I threatened to quit each time I didn't get my way, but no one ever let me walk out.

After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled: “She can't talk! She can't act! She's sensational!”

One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.

Other writers, producers, and directors of low-budget films would often put down the film they were making, saying it was just something to make money with. I never felt that. If I took the assignment, I'd give it my best shot.

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

I've always had the utmost respect and awe of what the lens can do and what a director can do with just a camera move.

Personally Im very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors.

I had no idea whether I could play 'em or not, but I wanted to and I was very determined... but the band director said #That's not really normal.' Of course, all you have to tell me is that something's not normal and I'll go for it!!

Every part I've done has been for one reason or another-money, or the part, or the director, or the location. I'd like to get one thing that's all of those combined.

We need more points of view from women and we need more support for female directors and writers in the industry.

As an actor, I look at scenes much differently than I would look at them as a director, and I never realized that until it actually happened.

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.

I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.

A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.

A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.

I look at life as being cruise director on the Titanic. I may not get there, but I'm going first class.

The best directors I've worked with, they all have the same thing in common. They're the first to say, 'I don't know.' If you ask them, 'How are we actually pulling off this movie?', they'll just shrug and go, 'I have absolutely no idea.'

I never storyboard. I hate it. I don't understand why so many directors want to make comic strips of their films.

I am the best film director in the world.

I was six years old when I saw my first Godard movie, eight when I first experienced Bergman. I wanted to be a director when I was fourteen.

One final thing a director needs: The ability to say 'I am wrong' or 'I was wrong.' Not as easy as it sounds. But in many situations, these 3 words, honestly spoken, will save the day.

I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a psychic medium.

My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.