Director Comparison Quotes

The difference between one writer and the other, or one director and the other, is the way he deals with a scene.

I'm the anti-Quentin Tarantino.

I never had a burning desire to direct. But Burt and I, on many pictures together, used to watch other directors and we realized that he or I could do a lot better.

I never thought I was doing the same thing as directors like John Carpenter, George Romero, and sometimes even Hitchcock, even though I've been sometimes compared to those other guys. We're after different game.

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

I don't want to rescind American directors but I think that European directors in general, because of the size of the nations in Europe are exposed to all different cultures, they can easily travel from one distinct culture to another in a matter of hours - you can drive for two weeks across the United States and you're in the same basic culture - so there is a certain breadth of understanding and sophistication that they bring to it and frankly, in some cases they are less expensive than American directors.

I've worked with very few directors who've asked of me what I asked of myself.

Fellini, Kurosawa, and Bunuel move in the same field as Tarkovsky. Antonioni was on his way, but expired, suffocated by his own tediousness.

Quentin Tarantino doesn't beat Hal Ashby, and he's one of my favorite directors. Quentin is incredible.

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

John McTiernan, the director, is not Ingmar Bergman. He does action-adventure movies.

I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.

Honestly, I don't think anyone confuses me with Wes Anderson. He's in his own terrific universe, but not the kind anyone would mistake for mine.

You see, I believe a producer's job today is as important as that of a director.

'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied behind his back.

Murnau is neck to neck with Bergman as my favorite director. He's responsible for some of the best images in cinema of all time, from 'Nosferatu' to 'Faust' to 'Sunset.'

If you think back to the great French directors it's difficult to think of British film-makers who are comparable.

I feel that 'Rudraksh' is Mani Shankar's answer to Steven Spielberg.

If you look at the types of directors out there, I'm not as weird as most of them.