Director quotes

“I guess actors don't like to direct each other.”
Peter Jacobson

“I'm not a politician; I'm lucky to be a filmmaker and to be able to express myself through the films I make.”
Mathieu Kassovitz

“I think it's the directors who especially need to prepare their work.”
Peter Stormare

“If a filmmaker and I don't get along, it's four weeks of your life, so, whatever. With TV, it's six years.”
Marc Blucas

“I don't think I could be happy as an actor if there was a tyrant on the set.”
David Warner

“The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time.”
Ellen Burstyn

“He's the apple of our eye. He's a fine actor, but he's starting to turn down acting work because he's about to become a director.”

Julian Glover

“I'm thinking about directing, but I know it's a lot of work.”
Angela Bassett

“I would love to be able to direct episodic television, because it's a great way to make a living.”
Frank Whaley

“Producers generally don't like me; directors do, generally.”
Amanda Plummer

“I always devise a background so that it makes what your character goes through logical and keeps up the continuity.”
Dexter Fletcher

“Directors never direct me. They just turn me loose.”
John Carradine

“Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director.”
Tom Skerritt

“Just being hired by a great director is complimentary.”
Tom Skerritt

“But I don't really care for directors flaring up and trying to humble some actor.”
Richard Farnsworth

“I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors.”
Diego Luna

“One of the hardest things about directing is just to be patient.”
Laurie Metcalf

“I've worked with top-of-the-line directors and they know what they want.”
Caroline Aaron

“I'm becoming a frustrated director, I think, in an actor's body.”
David Wenham

“Directing has only increased my admiration and respect for what it is that actors do.”
Eric Stoltz

“Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.”
Victoria Abril

“I never direct myself, because I don't like working with me.”
Ronald Francis Perlman

“He usually knows what he wants, and I guess having been a writer and a director, he knows what to shoot.”

Peter Jason

“I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.”
Xander Berkeley On Martin Scorsese, Spike Jonze

“All directors are control freaks and very obsessive.”
Stellan Skarsgård