Director Quotes

As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.

I've stood up to producers before, and even a director. I saw them being abusive. A lot of people on the set are scared to say stuff when they're not being treated right.

I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.

Call the priest or you'd have to call the athletic director. I'd like to know the answer to that question, too.

Sometimes, when you have a really hands-on director like a Michael Bay-type, who shouts a lot it's just so not good for your confidence and what's great about the way he (Allen) works is you don't block your instincts. You have total faith in him. You start to trust yourself as an actor, and you come away from it incredibly fulfilled, and you totally trust him, and that really doesn't happen that much. You come away thinking I'm all right at this.

[Layer Cake director Matthew Vaughn was also approached to direct Casino Royale , possibly with Craig as Bond.] They loved him more than me , ... I would have nailed Bond .

[Melanie Sloan, CREW's executive director, said,] The NIGC is either running a lackluster investigation or illegally withholding documents, or both. Regardless, the American public deserves to know what NIGC's dealings were with these officials, including now-indicted former GSA Chief of Staff David Safavian and former Majority Leader Tom DeLay. ... We will not sit by and allow the Administration to ignore the law and their responsibilities to the public. We will fight to learn the extent of Jack Abramoff's influence in Congress and the Administration.

[BikeNZ High Performance Director Michael Flynn was impressed with Ulmer's ride.] It was an excellent performance by Sarah, ... She has trained locally since coming back from overseas and she just loves competition.

[When Federal Emergency Management Agency director Michael Brown asserted on ABC News' Nightline last Thursday that he had only just learned of evacuees stranded at the city's convention centre, host Ted Koppel challenged:] Don't you guys watch television? ... a total failure.

We were doing the interviews on the second day of taping. And the director pulled me to the side and said they had scholarships for all four kids. Two years at Wharton County Junior College and two years at the University of Houston-Victoria. One of the biggest worries a parent can have is paying for their children's education. And now we've got that covered.

[On Clint Eastwood, best director:] If he hires you, he hires you because he feels like you know what to do. And he's very, very largely out of the way. He directs the picture, you do the acting. I love that, and I think that most of the people that he works with love that.

Terry Gilliam is considered in Europe as a genius, ... He has this freedom as a director - this fantasy. And he discovers what he wants from actors as he directs them, so you have to be on your toes.

It is important to build a relationship not only with the director or the manager or the head of the team but all those involved.

President Bush 's next FEMA director must be a qualified emergency response professional with the leadership experience to manage this disaster and future emergencies.

[Sports director Mario Kummer will have a broader scope of duties next season. The 43-year-old 1988 Olympic gold medallist will in future act as sports and technical director, charged with developing and deciding team strategy and logistics, together with Ludwig.] Mario has proven over the years how important he is to the team, ... Now he is ready to assume more responsibility.

When the documentary of 'Awakenings' was made in '73, the first thing the film director asked was, 'Could we meet the music therapist? She seems to be the most important person around here,'.

Are there different opinions and views from me to Brian, from Brian to [director of player personnel] Phil Savage , from me to Phil Savage? Yes. But there's always going to be a consensus. And somebody has got to have the authority. Two people can't have the authority or nothing gets done.

Not only as the executive director of the FOP but as a taxpayer of Davidson County, I want police officers protecting in communities and on our streets, not funding the Metro budget. I think it is time to call this a failed experiment and move on to something that is going to keep us safe ? safe in homes, safe in neighborhoods and safe on the highways.

In fact, if Desperadoes still cannot decide on a new musical director, they have several Bradley arrangements in the can and can play one of them for Panorama 2006.

The director-general has no magic wand ... things do not work this way in the WTO. We can catalyse, we can broker, we sometimes can lead, but at the end of the day ... member states have the decision-making power.

[Texas Tech athletic director] Gerald Myers called me in and said they didn't want me to leave, they wanted me to be the next coach.

When I came for an interview I got a good feeling from the director of education and office staff.

Cameron has a tremendous following out there as a director . . . He's a presence in his own right. He has autograph seekers around him.

He's a guy I've been interested in sitting down with for a while, ... We considered him for farm director position last year and he is a potential rising star in the game.

unparalleled experience as a judge and prosecutor, and as director of the FBI and of the CIA makes him a superb choice.