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I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.
I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.
I knew that I always wanted to be a filmmaker, an actor, a writer and a director, that was always my plan.
She's got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.
Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.
A good actor's director, first of all, is prepared, so there's not an exorbitant amount of wasted footage.
In a collaborative environment directors hire actors because they want their input, not just their bodies.
I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.
Every director is different. And all the movies are very different, and the characters are very different.
After Star Trek, I was with the top agencies, but producers and directors did not know what to do with me.
Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.
The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie.
I get involved with projects based on three parameters - the script, the actors involved and the director.
I've really enjoyed my work in television, but the problem for me is the turnover of directors every week.
How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.
Your director is your everything and you devote yourself to them and you want to help create their vision.
Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror.
Run away from laziness; work hard. Touch intuition and listen to the heart, not marketing directors. Dream.
You are the director of your own life story. Don't cast idiots or people will walk out during your 2nd act.
I wrote a script and I've been whispering in director's ears for a really long time and I'd love to direct.
The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor.
I'm an unusual director in that my cut is usually shorter then the final released film. I like short films.
I would love to be a fly on the wall watching other directors and actors to see what their process is like.
I've done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.
As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.
When I'm acting, I'm in the director's hands. I'm very happy to be. I like to be focused on what I'm doing.
I'm not sure that I'm really relevant as a director anymore. Or as a writer, either, to tell you the truth.
Actors can become very involved in a role, but for a director or producer, that's your life for many years.
As a film director I like to have the actors create their own close-ups. It's an older style of filmmaking.
I don't think film is the writer's medium, and so I was interested to see what a director would do with it.
Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple
The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.
I don't like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
I look for a director with a script he likes a lot, but I'm probably after the directors more than anything.
Picking projects, it's always director first and then script. Those two things are pretty much head-to-head.
I know, as an actor, I don't like sharing everything with the director. And it's fine if they don't with me.
I imagine as an axiom you could say that the better the play, the less "creativity" the director need exert.
The director has to win, because you should never force a director to shoot something they don't believe in.
Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.
I never think of myself as a celebrity - or even an actor, actually. I think of myself as a writer-director.
I'm not one of those directors who can just kind of walk away from the edit room and come back and check in.
I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director.
I can make fried tofu, boiled tofu, stuffed tofu. Cutlets and other fancy stuff, that's for other directors.
There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a pro.
Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied.
I wanted to know as the director how the actors wanted to tell this story I wanted to know what they thought.
There's only a few directors that can do what Emmerich does on an international scale and on an action scale.
All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.
I'm sure there are directors who don't like to work with actors and don't know how to be sensitive to actors.
I've never been a fan of directors who clutter a piece with all sorts of crazy preconceptions or weird ideas.