1465 Director Quotes for You to Enjoy

I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living. Park Chan-wook

Director First Living Films Critic Had Couple Make Became Becoming Turn Successful Film

I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out. Park Chan-wook

Director Aims Out Kind Message Send Who

When I first started my acting career, I only knew what my acting teacher taught me. When a director gave me an impromptu direction, I didn't know what he wanted me to do, and I wanted to escape from the place. Park Hyung-sik

Teacher Me Director First Gave Direction Only He Knew Know Escape Impromptu Taught Wanted Place Acting Acting Career Started Career

Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director. Parker Posey

Director Big Sundance Getting Platform

I know how difficult it is to learn languages, since I am working in three regional industries in South India, and unless the director wants my voice to be dubbed, I do my own dubbing. Parvathy

Director Three Own Difficult Unless India My Own Voice Since Know Industries Learn How Am South Wants Regional Working Languages

If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director. Patrice Leconte

Freedom You Director Clever Gives Well-Written Very Film

In the university library my father helped lead, as the Associate Director of Libraries from '60 to '82, I spent hours and hours as a kid devouring piles of books so I could follow the latest advances in science. Paul Allen

Library Director Science Father Books Latest Spent Kid Libraries Follow Could Lead Advances Hours Hours And Hours Piles Helped Associate University

In the end, it's acting, it's not real. But every director will tell you that you have to create conditions that create tension, because tension is what makes drama feel real. Paul Greengrass

You Director Will Every Drama Tell Tension Feel Because Makes Real Conditions End In The End Create Acting

I don't think it's a director's job to peek behind the curtain too much. Paul Thomas Anderson

Director Too Much Job Think Too Peek Behind Curtain Much

When a show's already established, and a director comes to set, it can be quite the intimidating experience. Paul Wesley

Director Experience Intimidating Quite Established Show Set

I've done network shows. A director will call me and say, 'Do you want to do this with me?' and I'll say, 'Sure,' but I couldn't do it forever because there's no real expression. That's not how people talk. Paula Malcomson

Me You Director People Will Say Network Talk Call Sure Because How Real Forever Done Want Shows Expression

I miss that process of getting the script and reading it and working on it. Every actor has their own way of memorizing their lines, and the whole process of starting to work with the other actors and the director, and doing rehearsals, and going to the location, and going through wardrobe. Pauly Shore

Work Director Reading Own Every Other Way Location Memorizing Through Miss Doing Lines Getting Going Process Script Wardrobe Working Rehearsals Whole Actor Starting

I'm not one of those playwrights who says, 'Show up, hit your marks, and don't talk to me!' I always want to hear from the other artists involved, whether it's the director, the lighting tech, or the actors. Pearl Cleage

If I had not been successful as a director, then I'm sure I would still be telling stories. I would have continued on 16mm or found a different medium through which to tell them. Pedro Almodovar

Director Medium Tell Telling Would Through Had Sure Still Continue Been Different Stories Which Them Then Successful Found

As a director, nobody told me I'd be talking to people all day. I'm naturally reclusive - I feel myself peek out at a certain point and go, 'All the extrovert in me is done! I'm on reserve!' Pete Docter

I had great luck with Tim McGraw twice in 'Friday Night Lights' and 'The Kingdom.' I love finding off-beat casting and finding someone you know in one way and you reinvent them in another way. I like doing that as a director. Peter Berg

Love Great You Director Luck Way Finding Kingdom One-Way Someone Casting Had Lights Like Know Another Another Way Tim Doing Friday Friday Night Friday Night Lights Them Twice Reinvent Night

The senior director at the NSC for the Middle East is retired Col. Derek Harvey, an Arabic-speaking intelligence officer with a Ph.D. who served as the head of the U.S. military cell examining the insurgency in Iraq in 2003. Peter Bergen

Director Intelligence Military East Harvey Examining Head Retired Insurgency Iraq Officer Cell Senior Middle Middle East Who Served

You talk about what a director, he was smart. He said, Turn the camera on! Peter Falk

You Director Smart About He Talk Said Camera Turn

If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work. Peter Fonda

Every director is so different from every other one. Peter Fonda

Director Every Other Different

Every director I've ever admired has a beard. Peter Horton

Director Beard Every Admired Ever

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