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If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing.

Quotes by Julie Andrews

Paul Verhoeven might be my favorite director, and I'm serious.

Quotes by Judah Friedlander

My mom worked as an education director.

Quotes by Josh Gondelman

Tarsem Singh was such a fantastic director.

Quotes by Joseph Morgan

I thought I'd make a really great director because I'm an actor. Like, I thought I could really direct actors.

Quotes by Joseph Morgan

When I'm playing as an actor, I don't want to interfere at all with the director. I'm just an actor. I'm totally respectful.

Quotes by Jordi Molla

I see what's behind everything the director wants to do.

Quotes by Jordi Molla

I'm a writer and director. And the movie I've seen a million times is 'Coming Home,' directed by Hal Ashby and starring Jon Voight, Jane Fonda and Bruce Dern.

Quotes by Jonathan Levine

I was 25 when I was made director of marketing at 'Newsweek.' I was 29 when I was made chief executive officer of Kaplan Educational Centers. I was raised to be confident.

Quotes by Jonathan Grayer

I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor.

Quotes by Jonathan Frakes

I think I have been stereotyped as an action director in Hollywood, so all I got were the action scripts.

Quotes by John Woo

Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director.

Quotes by John Milius

One guy records the voices, another guy times the storyboard, another guy times the sheets, one guy is the story editor. All these jobs should be covered by the director.

Quotes by John Kricfalusi

I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has.

Quotes by John Frankenheimer

The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized.

Quotes by John Frankenheimer

In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum.

Quotes by John Carpenter

I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.

Quotes by John Boorman

I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.

Quotes by Joe Wright

'Hanna' was nice. It was Saoirse Ronan's idea. Usually, the director casts the actor, but in this case, the actor cast the director.

Quotes by Joe Wright

I learn a lot as a director from acting in other people's films and just in general.

Quotes by Joe Swanberg

One of the jobs of a director is to ask questions. One of the jobs of the director is to stand in for the audience until they get there.

Quotes by Joe Mantello

I get to be in a room with other actors, but I never, or very rarely, get the chance to be in a room with another director.

Quotes by Joe Mantello

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.

Quotes by Joan Severance

I was the personnel director there with the Cowboys.

Quotes by Jimmy Johnson

It feels good to be able to work with a director and actors I've admired.

Quotes by Jim Sarbh

Marlon was more of a formal zoo director type.

Quotes by Jim Fowler

When I'm on a picture, I have two bosses - the director and the producer. My co-star is not my boss.

Quotes by Jim Brown

As a director, what I'm trying to do is to create interesting stories.

Quotes by Jiang Wen

I was a frustrated musician, frustrated designer, frustrated art director, frustrated novelist, right. I'd fail at all these different professions.

Quotes by Jeffrey Zeldman

As a director, try to be humble and not to overdo it, not overcoverage and over-covering the scene.

Quotes by Jean-Marc Vallee

A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.

Quotes by Jean Renoir

In France, I have lots of opportunities. Maybe now I'll be offered films in America. It's the encounter, with the director and the story that counts.

Quotes by Jean Dujardin

I still recall how nervous I was when I went for the recording of ‘Guzarish'… When I reached the studio, all of them were there - Rahman, Aamir Khan, lyricist Prasoon Joshi and director A.R. Murugadoss.

Quotes by Javed Ali

I actually have a theater company called Strangemen & Co. I'm the artistic director and co-founder.

Quotes by Jason Ralph

Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel.

Quotes by Jason Reitman

I've been really lucky not to have a duff experience with a director.

Quotes by Jane Goldman

It helps for actors if you have one director.

Quotes by James Watkins

I remained a member of the section till 1947, becoming Director in 1946.

Quotes by James Meade

I'm used to working with the director and producer, and that's my relationship. It's very simple.

Quotes by James Horner

I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.

Quotes by James Cameron

The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.

Quotes by James Cameron

I had served in the Republic of Korea in the early '80s while I was on active duty as a director of intelligence for U.S. forces Korea, and kind of followed developments on the peninsula ever since.

Quotes by James Clapper

I almost became a music major, but somehow I was so enthralled with the camera and becoming a director that I stuck with film school and theatrics.

Quotes by James Brolin

I am a director's actress in general - I depend a lot on them.

Quotes by Jacqueline Fernandez

I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two.

Quotes by Jack Kilby

What goes on between the actor and director is sacred.

Quotes by Jack Kilmer

I have no idea what makes a director believe in me that I can sell these kind of roles.

Quotes by Izabella Scorupco

I depend on good editors and a good director.

Quotes by Indira Varma

A director should concentrate on his storyline and his characters.

Quotes by Ilaiyaraaja

I'm happiest when I can just be a director and watch.

Quotes by Iain Glen

I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!

Quotes by Howard Hawks

Interestingly, 'October Sky' is an anagram of 'Rocket Boys', the same letters just moved around. This was discovered by director Joe Johnston using an anagram program on his computer.

Quotes by Homer Hickam

I never thought of myself as a TV director.

Quotes by Hiro Murai

When I was 27, I won an honorable mention in a scriptwriting contest and got a television job as an assistant director.

Quotes by Hirokazu Kore-eda

J. Cole's 2014 'Forrest Hills Drive.' The album, artwork, and director of that album was a huge influence on the visuals for 'Homecoming King.'

Quotes by Hasan Minhaj

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

Quotes by Harold Prince

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

Quotes by Harold Ramis

When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.

Quotes by Harold E. Varmus

I need to thank my director, producers, and artists as well crew members of all my projects.

Quotes by Hansika Motwani

I always dreamt of being a director.

Quotes by Hamsalekha

I came to the cinema industry to become a director from the inspiration of Guru Dutt and Shantaram.

Quotes by Hamsalekha

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

Quotes by Hal Holbrook

As an actor, my No. 1 focus was to be on the same page with the writer, director, and producers.

Quotes by Haaz Sleiman

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.

Quotes by Griffin Dunne

I knew I wanted to be involved with theater or film in any way I could, either as a writer or director or actress.

Quotes by Greta Gerwig

I don't make my living writing; I make my living as a producer and as a director.

Quotes by Grant Heslov

Every song that I compose has to satisfy the music director in me.

Quotes by Gopi Sundar

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

Quotes by Gloria Swanson

I treat recorded tapes the way a film director treats his rushes.

Quotes by Glenn Gould

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.

Quotes by George Stigler

Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.

Quotes by George Cukor

The truth is, a director wins an Oscar for a writer's script and actors' performances.

Quotes by George Cukor

I was working as a flight director on the Gemini IX mission, and it seemed almost overnight I was picking up the responsibilities for the Apollo Program.

Quotes by Gene Kranz

When I was approached to remake 'Vinnaithandi Varuvaaya,' I felt that it was a good way to reach out to a wider audience, every director wants that.

Quotes by Gautham Menon

I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.

Quotes by Gary Sinise

I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.

Quotes by Gary Sinise

I want to direct every now and then, but I don't want to be a director.

Quotes by Gael Garcia Bernal

I was called the greatest director in Europe, but I was just a hard worker.

Quotes by Fritz Lang

I'm an actor's director.

Quotes by Fred Durst

I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.

Quotes by Fred Durst

A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.

Quotes by Frank Darabont

The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.

Quotes by Frances McDormand

I have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.

Quotes by Florence Pugh

Jason Reitman is an amazing director; he's really amazing with his actors and crew.

Quotes by Finn Wolfhard

I wanted to be a director and comedian and my plan was to go to NYU. I wanted to be in UCB.

Quotes by Finn Wolfhard

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

Quotes by Faye Dunaway

Every director has a sensibility and style, and what works is his originality and conviction.

Quotes by Farhan Akhtar

My father Kamran Khan was a successful producer, director and actor in B-grade films.

Quotes by Farah Khan

I think I'm ready to bring my style to a comedic movie as a director.

Quotes by Eugenio Derbez

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

Quotes by Eric Bogosian

The title 'Spirited Away' could refer to what Disney has done on a corporate level to the revered Japanese animation director Hayao Miyazaki's epic and marvelous new anime fantasy.

Quotes by Elvis Mitchell

I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.

Quotes by Elizabeth Bowen

As a director, people are trusting you with their lives, with their stories.

Quotes by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

I have worked with another first-time director who was not that open, and it was probably one of the worst experiences I ever had, so my antennas are really out.

Quotes by Elisabeth Shue

I owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me.

Quotes by Elia Kazan

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

Quotes by Elia Kazan

A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.

Quotes by Elia Kazan

My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.

Quotes by Edward Tufte

I guess, as a director, you sort of take the script, and you find ways to interpret it.

Quotes by Duncan Jones

I went to Cal Arts and AFI, and I worked on 'Bonfire Of The Vanities.' I got this grant from the Academy to be Brian De Palma's apprentice director. And it was such a harrowing, disillusioning, awful experience.

Quotes by Douglas Rushkoff

A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.

Quotes by Douglas Sirk

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