Directors Quotes

In Kurdistan, theres a lot of hardship – a lot of wars, a lot of bitter and difficult lifestyles. And witnessing all those made me a director.

For us, as actors, and even for the director, it gave us a sense of authenticity to what we were doing because we were talking about Hollywood and we were in Hollywood.

Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.

I have great respect for directors who know what they’re doing.

In cinema, the leading player is the director.

I’m so dependent on reacting to the other actors on the set, and to the director. I’m very responsive. I react. And I treasure the energy that reaction gives.

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

If the United States is to produce a nation of investors-as we must if we are to gain financial world-leadership-it is imperative that boards of directors be so constituted as to adequately represent the interests and inspire the complete confidence of investors of moderate substance.

If you look at the types of directors out there, I’m not as weird as most of them.

Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which isn’t very common.