Quotes by Directors Hollywood needs more women directors, and Mama Ava needs a carafe and a half of that sweet vino divino. Ava DuVernay hollywood sweet directors After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled: “She can't talk! She can't act! She's sensational!” Ava Gardner tests directors hands 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 makeup directors firsts If I get lucky and I can choose, I would always choose a really good story and screenplay, even if I don't know the director. If there's a good screenplay, there's a chance that something good is going to happen. Ayelet Zurer lucky stories directors If you don't have a brilliant screenplay, then you either have amazing actors who give you the chance to improve whatever is on the page, or an interesting director who has enough faith in the project that they can carry it through and get it somewhere. One of those factors needs to happen. If not, it's sad. Ayelet Zurer giving directors interesting There are so many directors that I want to work with, but I can't tell you that there's one role. If I knew it, I would write it for myself. Ayelet Zurer roles writing directors 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. B. C. Forbes united-states inspire directors I'm a believer in trusting the director. B. J. Novak believer directors 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. Bahman Ghobadi hardship war directors Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of. Bai Ling asian two directors What I like about being an actress is that it keeps you feminine. Being a director and producer makes you manly and very masculine and I don't like that quality in a woman. But I'll do it when the film is very close to me. Bai Ling actresses quality directors I do not talk to the FBI directors about pending investigations [on Hillary Clinton]. Barack Obama pending clinton directors It doesn't matter if you work with an Oscar winner or if you work with an unknown actor. There is always a collaboration between the director and the actors, and you always have to listen as the actors have to listen to you as a director. Baran Odar collaboration actors directors I do feel, like everyone, there's not enough female directors out there, there's not enough female producers, and would like to see more people get more opportunity, more opportunity for roles for women. Barbara Crampton opportunity directors people When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director. Barkhad Abdi realising directors Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which isn't very common. I like to do my characters, if it's not specific in the script, as myself. Barret Oliver want character directors Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard. Barry Pepper prison-guards casting directors There is something about being a director where, for me personally, I get to . . . it's the closest I'll ever come to being able to be a stand up. And to use my particular sense of humor, and hear people laughing, without me having to stand up in front of an audience and tell jokes. Barry Sonnenfeld laughing directors people I'm an unusual director in that my cut is usually shorter then the final released film. I like short films. Barry Sonnenfeld finals cutting directors The first cut I do is usually between five and 10 minutes shorter then the cut that we release. Anything I think isn't working or might not work, I don't even put it in the director's cut. And usually it's the studio suggesting I put stuff back in, as opposed to studios saying, "You got to lose 40 minutes," they are always saying, "You've got to gain five minutes." Barry Sonnenfeld cutting directors thinking «4567891011121314»