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A good [film] director is talented, imaginative, and does his homework.
Fifty-percent of the director's job honestly is casting the movie well.
Working with a great director is like getting a master class in acting.
That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.
The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.
I try to add as much as I can before a director says, 'Harold shut up!'
All of the directors I've worked with I've gotten along with very well.
I always thought it would be very funny if I was a blind film director.
Directors are denied a great pleasure, which is that of being on stage.
I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.
Jim Brooks is a very powerful director and it was a lot of intense work.
I don't think it's a director's job to peek behind the curtain too much.
For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.
I'm very interested in directing actors - many directors direct cameras.
Lloyd Richards is another director who was like that, who was a teacher.
Louis Malle is maybe one of my favorite directors, but I love Tarantino.
I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.
There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know.
The kindest thing a director can do is look with open eyes at everything.
A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.
I've done lots of films with first directors, so it's not unusual for me.
The first-time director thing is just another label somebody puts on you.
I think I have more of a director's brain than an actor's brain, in a way.
Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.
I've been very lucky to work with a lot of amazingly supportive directors.
When Chris Nolan is your director you are like, "I trust that, I'm wrong."
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
In some way, the relationship between a director and an actor is personal.
If you see, as I do, in edited film, you're going to end up as a director.
I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.
The duty of a film director is to focus more on the soul of the spectator.
Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women.
I like bold directors. I like directors that go against the norm in a way.
Directors don't always create, they can also destroy with too many demands.
The attitude of the director is really important, in terms of setting tone.
I'm still confounded by how few female directors there are. I don't get it.
I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.
No English director would've cast me as an officer, I promise you. Not one.
All the directors that I've had the opportunity to work with are fantastic.
What you feel is important may not be what the director feels is important.
I never turned down anything and never argued with any producer or director.
It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
If you are a writer/director, the [movie] characters are a part of yourself.
Why would people have confidence in a female director when there are so few?
I would like, in the long term, to be recognized as a writer-director-actor.
I think it's very boring for a director to always do the same kind of movies.
A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.
As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic.
I'm always very interested in going and discovering a young director's films.