I choose my work very carefully, always for the script and…

“Perform all work carefully, guided by compassion.”

— Ved Vyasa

It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art is fragile…

— Donald Judd

...what I try to do is a good bad picture. I work it out very carefully, and then I do something that looks as…

— Helmut Newton

It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.

— Naomi Watts

I will continue to work with newbies as long as the script and the director are good.

— Radhika Pandit

When you're an actor, you're very much exposed, but in a strange way you're totally protected behind a character, behind a script, behind a…

— Mathieu Demy

Secure writers don't sell first drafts. They patiently rewrite until the script is as director-ready, as actor-ready as possible. Unfinished work invites tampering, while…

— Robert McKee

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on…

— Marion Cotillard

When you get a good script, and the director gives you proper lines, half your job is done.

— Anushka Shetty

You have to accept that the moment you hand a script to a director, even if you've written it as an original script, it…

— Victor Levin

To me, it always comes down to character and script and then director. If a character belongs to me, it's mine. We belong to…

— Anya Taylor-Joy

I go by the script and the director. Decisions about signing on the dotted line are mine. Of course, mom and dad listen to…

— Shamna Kasim

It could be a great script but the director is not the right person for me to work for at this time. So there…

— Blair Underwood

Even if I loved the script, the director has to be right because it's all about the filmmaker. It's their vision. They're the ones…

— Cameron Diaz

I am a fan of all genres. My big thing is to serve the purpose of the script and what the director wants. If…

— Terry Crews