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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor.
As a director, you can transform your vision more with the music.
A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.
The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.
It's great working with directors and with somebody else's vision.
As soon as an actor has faith in a director, he just goes with it.
There are times when directors just don't know what they're doing.
I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director.
The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized.
When your characters are really living they tell you what they do.
Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.
I'm one of the few directors that actually shoots a lot in camera.
I like working with different directors; it keeps you on your toes.
A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.
When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.
Michael Winterbottom is one of the great directors of this century.
Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired?
Sometimes the directors were afraid of what they brought out of me.
I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors.
You can only have one voice on set, and that has to be the director.
There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.
A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.
I'm not a Hollywood director. I'm an in spite of Hollywood director.
Being a writer-director can sometimes make you incredibly blinkered.
Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
As an action director I always try to bring something fresh and new.
I've certainly worked with really great directors who haven't acted.
My advice to women directors is just to make the best work possible.
Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.
Directors work 10 times harder than anyone else. Get paid a quarter.
A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.
Where else do you find great directors? Acting is one of the places.
Do you know what I'm working on now? My first feature as a director.
For a director, the most challenging scenes are the dialogue scenes.
I love working with women directors. They don't mind making you cute.
But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.
As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate.
I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.
The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate.
Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.
I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.
The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet.
When you work with a great director, you can have a great partnership.
I still think that movies are amazing; I respect actors and directors.
So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies.
I don't want to be a director. I want to direct. There's a difference.
As an artist, program directors always want to put you in a little box.
I love rehearsing, but a lot of directors don't, and some actors don't.