Being a producer, I deal with a lot of different directors, and some of them would drive me insane with all the… — Matthew Vaughn Copy Share Image
Work for the actor lies essentially in two areas: the ability to consistently create reality and the ability to express that reality. — Lee Strasberg Copy Share Image
I wanted to know as the director how the actors wanted to tell this story I wanted to know what they thought. — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
As a Japanese actor, I really want to work with a lot of actors and actresses in the world and many directors… — Ken Watanabe Copy Share Image
I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct… — Walter Hill Copy Share Image
Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
The contemporary Japanese directors who are well-known in the West - say, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takeshi Kitano, Naomi Kawase - are mostly unknown… — Hirokazu Koreeda Copy Share Image
I like so many different directors: Scorsese, Coppola, Cassavetes, Jarmusch, Gus van Sant, Woody Allen and the greats like Fellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
The movies I like to make are very rich and full of passion. Some people see me as an action director, but… — John Woo Copy Share Image
I worked with some directors, and it was really collaborative, and I was sort of writing with them. I was giving so… — Paddy Considine Copy Share Image
Man, without a saving touch of woman in him, is too doltish, too naive and romantic, too easily deluded and lulled to… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
My strongest quality as an actor is taking direction. I will give my performance as a template and if the director gives… — James Preston Rogers Copy Share Image
I don't want to be an editor! I don't want to direct; I'd be a horrible director. I don't want to write… — Topher Grace Copy Share Image
I'm very superstitious about going on other people's sets. You have to ask permission of the director; you shouldn't just turn up… — Ben Wheatley Copy Share Image
It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves. — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to say the words exactly how they are on the page, but sometimes when you improv, it only helps… — Taraji P. Henson Copy Share Image
I find it rather tedious working with some actors who have to go into a corner and bounce up and down, shake… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
A lot of young directors, they're not confident; they're not open to the emotional level of the scene. — Terence Stamp Copy Share Image
I was so disappointed [with movie Forsaken], but maybe I hadn't talked enough with the director. I don't know. But, Kiefer worked… — Donald Sutherland Copy Share Image
I didn't dream about being a director. I didn't know I wanted to do something with film until the summer between my… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
Obviously there was Keith Haring and Robert Mapplethorpe, but Howard was on the brink of becoming a famous director - it didn't… — Aaron Brookner Copy Share Image
My biggest advice for women writer/directors is to always be attempting to make work that avoids pandering to the conceptions that the… — Rania Attieh Copy Share Image
If I find great material, or a great character, or a great director that wants to do something on TV, or whether… — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
I'm not really a full-time director, I just like to direct the things that I write because I think I'm going to… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
For an actor, it's very important to get a clear idea of what a director wants, and their intention for what they… — Clive Owen Copy Share Image
Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place. — D. W. Griffith Copy Share Image
When I was leader of the GLC, by the time I had been in control for three years, the difference in pay… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
I've never like had a system or a program, I always think that I don't know how to act. I'll adapt to… — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
Were I not married to the director, I'm not sure I'd know anything about the 'Underworld' sequel. — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
In personal conversations between director and actor, the male directors that I've worked with are just as emotional. Maybe it's because I… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
The bottom line is if the movie does well, everybody is happy and they forget about what they went through. And if… — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
I hope my talent has something to do with it. I just think this business is so crazy. I obviously do the… — Jennifer Jason Leigh Copy Share Image
It is necessary to recover the primeval force of the shock taking place at the moment when opposite a man (the viewer)… — Tadeusz Kantor Copy Share Image
Film buffs who don't live in Hollywood have a fantasy about what it's like to be a director. Movies and the people… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
Acting became important. It became an art that belonged to the actor, not to the director or producer, or the man whose… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
It's quite liberating to have a director stand beside the camera and say: "Do this now, and do that now..." It's also… — James McAvoy Copy Share Image
![“I was so disappointed [with movie Forsaken], but maybe I hadn't talked enough with the director. I don't know. But, Kiefer worked it out. Kiefer took it and re-edited it. I don't know whether he talks about that. He's probably more discreet than I am because Jon is a friend of his. Now, it…” quote by Donald Sutherland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4c6/donald-sutherland-14225_directors_i-was-so-disappointed-with-movie-forsake_1946593.jpg)
