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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that you have a script and it's very linear.
I can't act. I simply must be myself, do the things that seem natural to me. When I get with a director who wants me to act, I'll be lost.
I'm so lucky to have the opportunity to work with some directors and some actors I wouldn't have dared to think I would work with one day.
Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process.
Although filmmaking is collaborative and involves trust, ultimately it is the director who holds the whole picture together in their head.
I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious.
Stage is the place of the playwright: you're guided by great actors and directors, but it's the playwright's word on the page that counts.
For me, a director is a director immaterial of the gender. At the end of the day, the audience is only interested in watching a good film.
A director on a film really sets the tone of how people go about things, so everybody is happy to be at work and everybody does their best.
If you are at odds with the director, neither one of you is going to get anywhere. You really do have to be able to make both of you happy.
Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven stories.
My big break was becoming the spokesperson for Texas Instruments. Casting directors really started giving me a chance to read for projects.
It's a collaborative art form where we can both learn something from the other. That's what you want from the relationship with a director.
I've definitely gotten to work with female directors, and I feel lucky because of that. I just feel like more voices should be represented.
It just so happened that J.C.[Chandor] was a first-time feature director, and his script was exactly the kind of thing we were looking for.
I am lucky, that is all. Lucky because there are a lot of people - producers, directors, people who buy tickets - who put confidence in me.
You evolve in the ways in which you are precious. When you are the director, you are also continuing to write on the floor as you go along.
I was not born a size 2. I'm not skinny, period. I'm not willing to sleep with the director or step on somebody else's neck to get the job.
Four directors through their own interpretation created four different characters. And I had to play them in a fairly short period of time.
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
As a 25 year director of a non-profit program I began to see the need to shift from only doing projects/programs to also doing policy work.
A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.
Every director works differently but one thing's important: they must have a vision. If they don't have a vision I don't care how they work.
What's interesting is that producers, directors and writers tend to typecast me in terms of whatever movie they've seen me in most recently.
I was six years old when I saw my first Godard movie, eight when I first experienced Bergman. I wanted to be a director when I was fourteen.
I strongly agree that a National Intelligence Director should be established to oversee and coordinate the 15 federal intelligence agencies.
Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces, anyway.
Force Majeure is a jolt. You won't know what hit you. Director Ostlund shifts gears from humor to psychological thriller with cunning skill.
And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration.
A lot of solo directors have a really strong creative producer with them. Jay and I have less of a need for that because we have each other.
I'm reading Joe Eszterhas biography; it's fabulous. Every time he made a movie, he fought with the director or the producer over the ending.
I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner.
I think you have to have different tools for each job - you know producer is very different from a director and very different from an actor.
Blood City III: The Massacre. I'd read the summary of it online, and frankly, it sounded like the directors had just decided to film my life.
It is universally agreed that Jean Renoir was one of the greatest of all directors, and he was also one of the warmest and most entertaining.
There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment.
I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.
Obviously, if a director doesn't communicative a clear, relevant vision of the material, it will not succeed no matter how good the material.
When I was starting as an anime director I wanted to be known for great things. I never wanted to be known for some overblown toy commercial.
As a director, it's my job to provoke, and when people decided 'The Room' be called a phenomenon, or whatever you call it, it's fine with me.
I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.
Unfortunately, in Hollywood, there are those directors that have some contempt for actors. We've all experienced that, in one way or another.
What you want, as an actor, is a great leader. I can't bear it when I work with a director who is wishy-washy and says, "What did you think?"
There are many amazing female directors that made work in more skewed times, so we should be thankful for the boundaries they pushed through.
I was 17, certainly by the time I was 19, I knew that show business was where I was going to end up, and I had my sights on being a director.
As an actor, I look at scenes much differently than I would look at them as a director, and I never realized that until it actually happened.
I depend on good editors and a good director. It's up to the way they shoot it, the lighting and all that. I like how small you can be on TV.
I have worked with a lot of great directors but my favorites are all entirely different from one another. They don't go about it the same way.
Obviously I would love to work with all these great directors like the Coen Brothers, Tarantino. Robert Rodriguez is a dream director of mine.