Top Director Quotes
I married Nicholas Ray, the director. People yawned. Later on I married his son, and from the press's reaction - you'd have thought I was committing incest or robbing the cradle!
Gloria Grahame
I had to go and sing with the musical director of the film, Simon Lee, who is just incredible, and it went great. I sang with him about five things, things we'd worked on. And then I went to sing for Andrew Lloyd Weber.
Gerard Butler
The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized.
John Frankenheimer
What happens is things come to you - director, script - and if you respond to it, it's because it's tapping into some part of what's inside you, and different roles tap into different parts.
Sean Penn
The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.
Satyajit Ray
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Most of the top actors and actresses may be working in ten or twelve films at the same time, so they will give one director two hours and maybe shoot in Bombay in the morning and Madras in the evening. It happens.
Satyajit Ray 
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How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.
Gary Oldman
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I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.
Sean Penn
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Of all the projects I've worked on, I've never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he's a genius.
Linda Blair
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It does make you a better director and a better actor.
Charles Keating
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The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.
Frances McDormand
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I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be.
Bill Condon
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I used to love Woody Allen but feel he's become a hack as a director. Bullets Over Broadway is the only film of his I've enjoyed in the last 10 years.
Douglas Wood
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One thing I know is that I don't want to be a director for hire, making genre films.
Paul Mazursky
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I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has.
John Frankenheimer
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