Directorial Quotes

#1. I believe that improvisation is really just a directorial tool. It's a writing tool. It's not so much that the actors get to say whatever they want, whatever pops into their head. It's an opportunity to write the last draft of the screenplay as you're working on it.

Ivan Reitman

#2. I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

Jodie Foster

#3. As an actor, I was a fantastic rebel. Then I became a directorial rebel and understood rebels from both sides. So now I am a friend who gives advice - not one who knows more, necessarily, but who shares ideas.

Maximilian Schell

#4. I believe in the directorial point of view and directorial choices.

Laszlo Nemes

#5. When I was eleven, I got cast in the last directorial project of Christopher Reeve.

Vanessa Marano

#6. I actually like acting in things that I'm directing because I'm able to control the tone of how a scene may go and I know, very clearly, what I want from myself in that scene and what I need, as far as from a directorial standpoint.

Eric Balfour

#7. I've been aware of the work I do as an actor being directorial in feel.

Iain Glen

#8. My mom choreographed the top Olympians; she's really the queen of ice in her world, so I kind of get my directorial bug from her because she's really good at telling people what to do!

Hayley Kiyoko

#9. There's good movies and there's bad movies. The genres are never dead, it's just about how to apply them and articulate them and execute them - the story, the quality of the writing, the acting, the design elements, the directorial execution - all these things make it what it is.

Andy Garcia

#10. I'm not rigid about directorial changes: I judge them on a case-by-case basis. In the case of a play whose text is widely familiar, I'm open to drastic changes that may alter the author's meaning, perhaps even considerably. If the results don't work, then I say so.

Terry Teachout

#11. It's a myth that you need to understand all the ins and outs of music. The ideal scenario is you have a conceptual, directorial conversation about what you're trying to achieve in a theme and then trust your composer to go ahead and do that.

Henry Jackman

#12. You only get one world premiere of your directorial debut.

Geoffrey S. Fletcher

#13. I don't have a directorial overview, which sometimes is very helpful.

Julia Barr

#14. My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!

Takeshi Kitano

#15. 'Ouija' has a steady directorial hand, some attractive young actors who taking the silliness seriously, and few admirable genre elements. It renounces the faux-found-footage ShakyCam style, instead employing a traditionally smooth visual style.

Richard Corliss

#16. An Ingmar Bergman film would probably owe a sizeable bulk of its import and its direction and its quality to the directorial end and to the director because it's uniquely a Bergman film. But that again is not the general - no, that's much more the exception than the rule.

Rod Serling

#17. When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.

Walter Savage Landor

#18. The last kiss is given to the void.

Aidan Higgins

#19. Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one.

Mark Twain

#20. Asakawa himself didn't much care if the company made money or lost it. All that mattered to him was whether or not the work was engaging. No matter how easy a job was physically, if it didn't involve imagination, it usually ended up exhausting you.

Koji Suzuki

#21. I'm a storyteller; that is what I do. And I'm particularly interested in history; and in history of a certain era. But what is interesting for me is how many, how many things you see repeated.

Jacqueline Winspear

#22. Poetry is the gate through which I enter the land of enchantment. Once inside the flaming wall, my limitations fall from me, and my spirit is free.

Helen Keller

#23. Enobaria smiles at Johanna. 'Don't look so smug,' says Johanna. 'We'll kill you anyway.

Suzanne Collins