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Sometimes when I make a movie, my main goal is to show the movie to one particular director.
'Ides of March' I did for scale - scale as a director, scale as an actor, scale as a writer.
I'm at the mercy of others because I'm not a director. I'm not a producer. I'm not a writer.
A film is a director's vision... there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have.
Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to.
As a producer, I probably am a little stronger than most, since I was a director originally.
Twelve years on sets watching directors, I've taken a bit from everybody and rejected a lot.
I think to be a good director you have to be a good person and you have to care about people.
I never feel like a smug or a smart-alec film director, and there are plenty of those around.
How can you have a director that doesn't go to work with the crew every day and talk to them?
When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me.
If all the world's a stage and all the people players, who in bloody hell hired the director?
The director's very important to me, particularly when the director has a recognizable style.
Sometimes things are nothing on paper, but a genius director turns it into something amazing.
For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.
I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.
As a director, I wouldn't like me as an actor. As an actor, I wouldn't like me as a director.
The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.
There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
It's so hard to find a director who, when you look at their body of work, you like everything.
There are all kinds of directors I want to work with and all kinds of films that I want to do.
If everyone's comfortable, you can pretty much make any kind of movie that the director wants.
A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.
Most actors go, I read the script and fell in love with it; I fall in love with the directors.
When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there.
Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him.
When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.
You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer.
My ideal role would be the lead in a film with a director that I really appreciate and admire.
In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.
When you're a director you always feel weird with another director watching over your shoulder.
I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
I never rewatch the great films of my favorite directors because I'm afraid they won't hold up.
At times as an actor, it's often times unclear as to what the directors envision for a project.
As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.
I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.
Some directors are very free and some directors are very specific. It seemed like doing a play.
I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.
More often than not, if you've got a good director and a good script you can't really go wrong.
I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.
In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression.
We all steal, but if we're smart we steal from great directors. Then, we can call it influence.
Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there.
Bud [Yorkin] was the kindest and dearest man, and one of the most talented directors there was.
That was okay [ working with George Clooney]. One of these days I'll work with a good director.
You never know as a director what other directors do. Because you don't get to see what they do.
From John Huston to Fred Zinnemann and Richard Fleischer and all those great American directors.
The director of the FBI...said we can't know for certain who these people are coming from Syria.
There are so many great directors that I haven't worked with and that I would love to work with.