Always get to the set or the location early, so that you can be all alone and draw your inspiration for the… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
One of the most, in a weird way, encouraging things a director can say to an actor - I know this as… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with. — Alan Parker Copy Share Image
An Ingmar Bergman film would probably owe a sizeable bulk of its import and its direction and its quality to the directorial… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
As a director, it's my job to provoke, and when people decided 'The Room' be called a phenomenon, or whatever you call… — Tommy Wiseau Copy Share Image
I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium. — Christopher Eccleston Copy Share Image
I think directors can be a little insensitive to how vulnerable an actor is, when he's giving a performance. Part of the… — Eric Balfour Copy Share Image
Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director. — George Cukor Copy Share Image
I think television has become such an interesting place for characters and for incredible storytelling. Half of what I watch are television… — Elijah Wood Copy Share Image
I really love Hitchcock; I think he was a complete genius, to me one of the best directors. Such a sense of… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker. — Conrad Hall Copy Share Image
I have tried to write soundtracks, and the main problem with those was that the directors often had in their minds a… — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
I think producers are more interested in backing concepts than directors and writers. I don't think that's the right way of making… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic. The words for me are secondary, but… — Tommy Wiseau Copy Share Image
One of the things about working for an old school studio like Warner Bros. is that there is an institutional culture and… — Bruno Heller Copy Share Image
I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor,… — Kevin Bacon Copy Share Image
I only travel to good material, a good director and a good company. I won't work in another country for a year… — Jim Dale Copy Share Image
Cast PURPOSE as the lead in your movie and you will help God, your Director, produce a masterwork. — DeVon Franklin Copy Share Image
Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
As the director, you have to hold in your head the widest possible vision. Not just the idea and the story, but… — Sally Potter Copy Share Image
The thing that has helped me the most has been surrounding myself with a strong community of people with common interests and… — Liza Johnson Copy Share Image
Eratosthenes was the director of the great library of Alexandria, the Centre of science and learning in the ancient world. Aristotle had… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I've done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading. — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
In my last year of drama school, I was Abigail in 'The Crucible' and Nina in 'The Seagull,' and I did some… — Kimberley Nixon Copy Share Image
