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(As) a director who is a writer, I have respect for writers, so I'm less likely to step on an idea or a line.
Ensure that your script is watertight. If it's not on the page, it will never magically appear on the screen.
As a director, you're given a tremendous apparatus to work with, and very great talents are available to you.
I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.
Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach.
Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.
The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.
Music is just one of the tools a director has with which to paint and I think it's one of the most effective.
I'm just trying to find a good project. Work with a good director, someone I really admire. Find a good role.
A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it.
I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.
I see myself much more as a writer/director or at least an aspiring writer/director - not necessarily in film.
If I feel the part is right, and I know that the producers and the director want me, I'd go for broke. Always.
On every movie I’ve done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don’t envy them, at all.
The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.
With the most interesting directors, the cast comes together to make something magical that nobody counted on.
I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!
I didn't have the problem of finding myself at 45 on the wrong course - I always wanted to be a film director.
The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it.
I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.
People come up to me and say "Steve, what is film editing?" And I say "How should I know? You're the director.
I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director.
I've constantly done my best to get the best material I can get with the best directors I can get to direct me.
I think it's possible to be free in a big production. It's the eye of the director and the actor and the story.
Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids to direct me.
When you're not gaping at Megan Fox enough to listen to what the director's saying, you can get some work done.
As a director I always look at someone's eyes. How truthful are they? Will this person take me on this journey?
Working with green screen, you really rely on the director in a way that you don't on different types of films.
It can be a bit annoying if another actor is trying to talk to the director and the wife is sitting on his lap.
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.
It's possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can't make a good movie from a bad script.
I always found something strangely paternal about the director-actor relationship. Actors want so much approval.
On a movie set that works, you have your father figure, the director, you have your siblings, your other actors.
As a director, you just have to kind of like just get through the first project before starting on the next one.
The foreign-language Oscar is something that doesn't go to the producer or the director; it goes to the country.
As an actor, Sean [Penn] is brilliant. And he's really an excellent director, as well. We got along really well.
You don't have your film finished when you have your director's cut finished. It's just a bunch of green screen.
The way I see it, when I go out as an actor, it should be on a type of film I'm never going to do as a director.
As an actor, you're in the hands of producers and directors. It's important to find out who you're working with.
There are definitely reasons to do certain things, but I like to stick to good director, good actor, good script.
I think the financial restraint really pushes me as a director to be more creative with the way I shoot the film.
And Later I Thought, I Can't Think How Anyone Can Become a Director Without Learning the Craft of Cinematography.
We need more points of view from women and we need more support for female directors and writers in the industry.
I started out with this dream of being a director and doing cinematography and bought my first film camera at 15.
The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.
I never storyboard. I hate it. I don't understand why so many directors want to make comic strips of their films.
David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.