I'm getting my respect as a video director. The fashion industry respects me and knows who I am.

For film, I audition just like everyone else, because it's a different set of casting directors.

Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.

I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.

It's an important thing to have a relationship with the director, and have it be a positive one.

Alexander Gonzalez Inarritu is a great director. He's the one I first worked with. He's amazing.

There are a lot of directors who make big money and do big things and then move out of the 'hood

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

A good script and a good brief from the director is enough to let me know what is expected of me.

The movie "Ed Wood," about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for "Stargate."

To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision.

I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.

Do whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director.

When you're on stage with an audience, the director's nowhere to be seen. He's onto the next job.

OK, the director makes the movie. But some movies can't get made without someone like me in them.

Were I not married to the director, I'm not sure I'd know anything about the 'Underworld' sequel.

Most directors have one masterpiece by which they are known. Kurosawa has at least eight or nine.

Ultimately when I throw myself behind a movie, I have to really believe in that directors vision.

The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor.

Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore.

Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.

If the director of the department doesn't even know what the privacy policy is, we are in trouble.

Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.

Cast PURPOSE as the lead in your movie and you will help God, your Director, produce a masterwork.

Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't

When I decided I wanted to be an actor, I said I wanted to work with quality actors and directors.

If you don't take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.

Actors rarely stay in touch with directors after they've filmed together. We go back to real life.

I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.

If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly.

Any great director is also someone who is incredibly intelligent about whom they hire around them.

The script is what you`ve dreamed up - this is what it should be. The film is what you end up with.

My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.

As a director, try to be humble and not to overdo it, not overcoverage and over-covering the scene.

The director, of course, was Bob Fosse. But again, I worked with my father to prepare for the role.

I always think it's a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.

I'm not a feminist, but I just think it's a really cool process working with a woman as a director.

That was the good thing about having different directors [on series]. You had to stay on your toes.

I think I'm probably one of the worst directors around, but I do have an interest in my fellow man.

I don't like actors who try to talk directors into making their part bigger and that's really lame.

Joe Mantello is the uber director. I wrote him a card tonight saying basically, 'Will you adopt me?'

I will work with a director who has good material because at the end of the day, that's what counts.

A movie has its own fate, which often doesn’t depend on the performances of the director and actors.

My very first news director said to me that it's better to be hated than to have viewers be neutral.

I get to play a great character while working with great actors and great directors on a great show.

I didn't know [director] Aaron Woodley at all, but I knew I wanted to be a part of [ The Entitled ].

If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.

That's the greatest sin a director can commit; to make a film simply because he wants to make a film.

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

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