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I think a good director casts a film so that the actors bring a lot to the table.
I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.
My whole family is very artistic - my uncles are all actors and theatre directors.
Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.
A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.
My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
If you look at the types of directors out there, I'm not as weird as most of them.
The very nature of cool is that you think about it too much and it becomes uncool.
I've worked with a lot of great directors and often times they solicit your ideas.
I don't need a director who's 'good with actors.'...A master manipulator is heaven.
To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.
You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.
The work of the director is the work of constructing the shot list from the script.
I think the perspective that small-town directors bring to films is very different.
When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.
I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director.
As a director, I get to have a much broader creative expression than as an actress.
The relationship between a director and an editor in documentaries is so important.
To me, one of the main things that a director does is create the tone of his movie.
I really love the experience of moving things around, in terms of being a director.
I've been very lucky. Directors I've worked with have been very amenable to changes.
One thing I know is that I don't want to be a director for hire, making genre films.
Everything is the director's fault - you can quote me on that. There are no excuses.
Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.
I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
A good director has to be a captain - he has to work with a lot of people every day.
Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.
As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.
To me the director’s job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.
You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.
A male director doesn't come to situations the same way that a female director would.
Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.
Certain directors are known for a certain kind of beauty; it becomes their signature.
I do not talk to the FBI directors about pending investigations [on Hillary Clinton].
You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life.
No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit
I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.
One of the wonderful things about being an actor is that every director is different.
Most of the great directors I've worked with - De Palma, Spike Lee - like rehearsals.
Steve Zaillian is just the sweetest. A very, very wonderful and interesting director.
I love it when the director says, 'Rebel, just do whatever you want.' I'm, like, 'Yes!
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
I'd like to decide who comes here. I'd like to be the admissions director of New York.
I am very clear that when I work with a director what he or she says is the last word.
No comedy should be longer than 90 minutes. There's no such thing as a good long joke.
'Election' is a movie I'd give a leg to cross the director's name out and put mine in.
When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present.
A good director creates an environment which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.
I think the mark of a good director is that they surround themselves with good people.
My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.