Director Quality Quotes

You can have an amazing director and terrible script, and the film's not going to be great. But if you have the most incredible script and an okay director, you could still get a really good film.

I think the director is becoming more important. To work under rushed conditions, you need to have an extremely professional director. If the director's good than the end result will be good.

Because I've made a film with such an amazing director as Tarantino, I'm much more conscious of working with good directors from now on, so that's what's important to me. I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.

Anything that's got Stephan Elliott directing it is going to be interesting, to say the least.

I'm trying to work only with established, respected directors. I took a lot of bad scripts and worked for a lot of lazy directors, and it was discouraging to go to the screenings and see that the director had added nothing, the editor had added nothing, there was nothing to see.

Acting's fine if the script's written by Paddy Chayefsky and Martin Scorsese directs it, but unless you have something like that, I don't really enjoy acting.

When you start a new project and they say, "Your director is going to be Joe Blo," you're hoping that Joe Blo will be the next Martin Scorsese, but it doesn't always work out that way.

I don't go by brand names for directors.

I've worked with some absolutely wonderful directors who bring out the best in me and I know I can trust, and then I've had the opposite experience, too. I've had both experiences, and obviously one is good and one is not good. When they're great, it's good. When they're not great, it's not so great.

There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors

I think what qualitiy make for good directors is being able to articulate what you want; it can cause problems with a lack of communication. I'm not an actor who requires much talking to a director, I don't want to sit down and discuss a scene for hours and hours; that would bore me.

Working with Sam Mendes was a dream come true. He's unbelievable as a director.

I don't watch many films. I just make sure my directors are really good. I will work even with a debut director, but the one-hour narration of the script should be mind-blowing.

Larry Kasdan is a great director.

I've worked with a couple of female directors now, and I think that they're amazing. As good or better than guy directors.

The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.

Krishna Vamsi is a very good director.

I think that Phil Kaufman is one of the best directors that I have come across.

Sometimes a great director will do a bad job and an okay director will do a great job. You never know.

Over the long haul I'd say that most directors I've worked with have been pretty sensitive to the quality of the interpreted scenes.

I will continue to work with newbies as long as the script and the director are good.

Somebody who likes to do my plays is a good director for them.

When you have a good director, it's just wonderful.

Maybe if we sit out for the next few years and let Clint Eastwood get a little experience, he's going to be a good director.

Very often, it's the director that I'm attracted to. If it's a really good director, I don't even have to read the script to say yes.