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[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.
As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors.
As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does.
It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
There are a lot of directors who are knowledgeable about images, and others who aren't.
There are no bad actors. There are only bad directors who cannot make their actors act.
If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.
Yes, there are directors I admire, the mavericks. Altman. There are many good directors.
If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you're out of view.
I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has.
I've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director.
Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.
As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.
Those who have themselves for a spiritual director have a fool for a spiritual director.
A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.
I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.
I will one day be thin, but Vincent Gallo will always be the director of The Brown Bunny.
I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm.
Sometimes the shots serve as homages to other movies and other directors, like Hitchcock.
I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.
Before you can steal fire from the Gods you gotta be able to get coffee for the director.
Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility.
The irony of a director going to film festivals is you never get to see any of the films.
I think Jesse Eisenberg is such a great writer. He was a great director and really tough.
I'm pretty sure a lot of directors would be thrilled to cast age appropriate roles. I am.
Movie making is really, it's a director's medium, it's not even so much an actor's medium.
It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.
Some directors have just one way of working; you either have to adhere to it or you don't.
I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two.
When you trust your director completely, then you can relax, be spontaneous, be malleable.
I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.
For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of.
There are directors, and there are authors. I think I am more of an author than a director.
I should mention that I am a member of the board of directors of Dimensional Fund Advisors.
I learn a lot from every director that I work with. I sit on set and watch them, every one.
When you're a producer or director, there's so much sweat that goes into any given project.
I'm not a betting woman, but I have $50 on Secretariat with an old director friend of mine.
I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors.
I don't think anyone can really make up their mind and say, Now I'm going to be a director.
There is a magic thing called 'tone' in a film, that the director must master and maintain.
For most directors, the scriptwriter is about as welcome on set as a member of the Taliban.
Becoming artistic directors is an enormous responsibility and not one that we take lightly.
I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.
You can't fake comedy - it's not like a movie, where a director can just cast a pretty face.
My job as the director is to make that as authentic as I can and not to disturb the revelry.
A director who gets $150,000 per year from a company and needs the money is not independent.
And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy a director of category B, not a big director.