Director Quotes

I actually think film and TV are sort of the same thing now. To me they’re all motion pictures. There’s a camera, a script, other actors and a director. Doing a sitcom is a little different.

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

Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors.

A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.

Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I’m really fond of.

Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.

[Fifty Shades Darker director] James Foley directed Fear. And that’s what I love about this film, because it has a real sexy thriller element about it.

The producer, director and stars are the geniuses who get the hosannas when it’s a hit. Theirs are also the heads that are mounted on spears when it’s a flop.

I want the public to realize that above all I am an actor, a very professional one who loves every minute of being in front of the camera. But one who becomes very miserable the instant the director shouts, ‘Cut!’

Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.