Famous Director Sayings

#1. Obviously there was Keith Haring and Robert Mapplethorpe, but Howard was on the brink of becoming a famous director - it didn't happen because he died.

Aaron Brookner

#2. I mean he's a very famous director ... they're not going to put their ... and he's very tough, he doesn't like interference at all, so he kept them at bay.

Ronald Harwood

#3. Everybody want famous, like me to be a famous director.

Andrew Lau

#4. I'm not a famous director yet, and I'm not into fame. I like to just work. As a director, as an actor, whatever people consider me is fine with me.

Tommy Wiseau

#5. I've been very, very lucky in my career, in my life - from day one. When aspiring directors say, 'What's your advice?' first I say, 'Be born the son of a famous director. It's invaluable.'

Jason Reitman

#6. I was shooting a mini-series for Sundance/BBC, called 'Top of the Lake,' that was shot by Jane Campion, who's a beautiful native New Zealander and famous film director. The role I was playing was very intense, and they shaved half my hair off. So, I looked like this post-apocalyptic character.

Jay Ryan

#7. I think people direct good films when they feel personal to them, not because it's a famous book or something. It has to something move over that and somehow become personal to the director.

Salman Rushdie

#8. Whenever I'm in theatre situations I will go out of my way not to talk about my father, but in the film world I can be really proud of my family and say, 'You know what: my dad's a really, really famous theatre director,' because nobody has any idea.

Rebecca Hall

#9. [Roger] Vadim became famous worldwide as a director, and I as an actress, but the other side of the coin was terrible. My life was totally turned upside down. I was followed, spied upon, adored, insulted. My private life became public.

Brigitte Bardot

#10. Our expanding Canadian operations are concrete evidence of General Motors confidence in Canada.

Charles E. Wilson

#11. I'd love to do a cop film in America. That's a genre I absolutely adore.

Danny Boyle

#12. If I lose today, I can look forward to winning tomorrow, and if I win today, I can expect to lose tomorrow. A sure thing is no fun.

Leonard Marx

#13. It's hard to get by just upon a smile,

Cat Stevens

#14. The ghastly mother-in-law is well represented by a little comedy film of 1952: No Room for the Groom, directed by Douglas Sirk, the fine German director more famous for his melodramas that humanely criticize American morals and values.

Jeanine Basinger

#15. No matter how successful or skilled you are, you will inevitably fail at many things in your work.

Todd Henry

#16. And there was a very famous man called Michael Powell, who probably is the greatest director all round, except possibly a couple of men.

Patrick Macnee

#17. Yet it seems that a final race struggle is unavoidable

Moses

#18. To me, art is the glorification of the human spirit.

Hans Hofmann

#19. My first time playing a main character was in 'Seventeen Years.' It was directed by famous Sixth Generation director Zhang Yuan, but it wasn't a large commercial film.

Li Bingbing

#20. Oh, what the hell did I know? I went to the set the first day in full makeup and the director told me to take it off. So I did the film without makeup. I had nothing to do with anything I did. I never understood why I was so famous.

Ava Gardner

#21. I'm saying I'm in love with you! I've been in love with you this whole bleeding year!

Stephanie Perkins