Famous Director Quotes

Steven Spielberg was my childhood hero.

I've always dreamed that George Lucas would call me one day and ask me to be in one of the 'Star Wars' films.

I got a note from the stage manager one night that someone wanted to meet me. And it was Steven Spielberg.

When my stepmother had my sister, Katharine Hepburn dropped by to say hello. She came with George Cukor, who wasn't a star, but he was a famous director. He was also my grandmother's best friend, so I knew him well as a kid. But when George showed up with Katharine Hepburn, I was utterly star struck.

I am a huge fan of the Siddique sir's Malayalam comedies. I grew up watching them. I am also his daughter's classmate in school.

Vittorio De Sica famously made 'Bicycle Thieves'; that's the film of his everybody knows.

Obviously, if Woody Allen calls and says he wants you to read a script, of course you read it.

What if Woody Allen called me and said, I'm working on this movie and there's a really divine role for you. We want exactly you! It would be such a fantasy. Forget it! My idol, Woody Allen!

I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food.

Robert Altman was such an incredible person to have the privilege to know and meet and have dinner with.

Oliver Stone. Is that not enough?

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.

During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.

I went to Europe with Spencer Tracy. What a thrill, working with John Ford when I was a kid.

I ran into Woody Allen shooting a movie on my block. I can't believe this is my life!