When I'm choosing projects to be a part of it's always a combination of so many different things. The primary thing is… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
The advice you give to young directors for sure is to go out and become some version of a successful movie actor.… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
Advertising seemed almost natural to me because it was a business where you had to inform, persuade and educate. And so from… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
I'll say this, I'm no stranger to working with a foreign cast, foreign directors, that sort of thing. I love it, because… — Jaimie Alexander Copy Share Image
I think, as written, 'Assassins' simply acknowledges the very human need to be acknowledged. As director, I've got to put aside any… — Joe Mantello Copy Share Image
Your actors need to trust you as a director, but normally, I think you just need to have an open communication between… — James Wan Copy Share Image
What a director does... essentially, it's storytelling, but a director also controls the feeling and the sounds and the texture. It's an… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
I think you have to be ready to switch gears and go with the team as a director, as opposed to superimposing… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
Clark Gregg and I are around the same age. He has been an actor and is a writer. But with a first-time… — Sam Rockwell Copy Share Image
For 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona,' for example, Woody Allen is one of the greatest American directors, and we really had a very good… — Penelope Cruz 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
As actors, we have the opportunity to work with many directors. Directors only work with themselves and other actors. They never know… — Tom Hardy Copy Share Image
I'm completely surrounded, not only my father, but also my three brothers, and Sergio, my husband, all four of them work in… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
The similarity between the big directors I've worked with is that they allow the writer to find a way of doing what… — Steven Zaillian Copy Share Image
I've been on a lot of sets, and I've been around a lot of directors, and I've been working for many years… — Ryan Eggold Copy Share Image
We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies… — Anne M. Mulcahy Copy Share Image
You always have to speak good about the projects you do and you have to see the beauty in them. Sometimes you… — Miguel Angel Silvestre Copy Share Image
I'm very patient and always willing to try things but I have some resistance as well because I have my own vision.… — Juliette Binoche Copy Share Image
It is one of the few elements in the process that a director really, really can't control: an actor's performance. If you… — Jason Bateman Copy Share Image
One of the first things that I did was, I got myself a publicist as soon as 'Maria Full of Grace' premiered… — Patricia Rae Copy Share Image
Working with people you adore and love. There's just a sense, all the way through all of the movies [Planet of Apes],… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Tony Scott was one of the best directors Ive ever worked with, and I was devastated when I heard about his death.… — Christian Slater Copy Share Image
I loved making 'The Hunger Games' - it was the happiest experience of my professional life. Lionsgate was supportive of me in… — Gary Ross Copy Share Image
Animators do amazing working translating and interpolating the characters [in the Planet of the apes], the facial performances. What we're creating on… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
I don't have what German directors call 'a concept' - a solid, fixed sense of the pattern that you should impose on… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
Before I began The Cider House Rules, I thought I wanted to write about a father-son relationship that was closer, more conflicted,… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Definitely the script because you want to be part of an interesting story, you want your character to be a challenge, then… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
Some directors are really strong on action, manhandling you around the set; others are very focused on setting up the camera shots… — Gina Bellman Copy Share Image
I would just say there are no two roles that are more demanding than Bob Dylan of 1966 [Blanchett's role in 'I'm… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I never thought being the producer was being the dictator. It means being the director and being the coach. It's a way… — Paul Stanley 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
God sends such purgations to you, directors of consciences, that you may acquire the science of the saints and the art of… — Paul of the Cross Copy Share Image
I got involved through the director of the show [Top Chef], he's a director of films in Mexico; I worked with him… — Ana Claudia Talancon Copy Share Image
Sometimes directors get hired into TV shows, and it's so formulaic and they're a slave to whatever everybody wants them to do.… — Kyra Zagorsky Copy Share Image
You need the words, you need the script, you need the material, you need the commitment, you need the passion, it's like… — Nia Long Copy Share Image
I would love to work with Raju Hirani. I never thought I would have a wish-list of directors as such, but after… — Ram Charan Copy Share Image
Auditioning is a funny one. It's all about energy. If you walk into a room and the room feels off or the… — Max Irons Copy Share Image
We, as women, often believe that we have to endear ourselves by acting modestly. But that leads personnel directors to think: Anyone… — Kristina Schroder Copy Share Image
I am half Puerto Rican, a quarter German and a quarter black. That was always a big issue for me - being… — Naya Rivera Copy Share Image
I surrender to my directors. I do that because I respect them immensely. In fact, a director's talent scares me. I admit… — Vijay Sethupathi Copy Share Image
![“Working with people you adore and love. There's just a sense, all the way through all of the movies [Planet of Apes], that you're very rarely in a position where you have great material that you're passionate about and a big audience who love it, and the detail and nuance, and the exquisiteness of…” quote by Andy Serkis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a58/andy-serkis-1548_actors_working-with-people-you-adore-and-love-t_1016696.jpg)
![“Animators do amazing working translating and interpolating the characters [in the Planet of the apes], the facial performances. What we're creating on set - if you don't get it on the day, in the moment, on set, in front of the camera, with the director and the actors. The emotional content of the…” quote by Andy Serkis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/939/andy-serkis-1548_acting_animators-do-amazing-working-translating_1303787.jpg)
![“I would just say there are no two roles that are more demanding than Bob Dylan of 1966 [Blanchett's role in 'I'm Not There'] and Carol Aird of 1952. I challenge any director out there to come up with a wider divide. I had to convince her to take the Dylan role, and that took effort. But with…” quote by Todd Haynes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6d2/todd-haynes-2626_bob_i-would-just-say-there-are-no-two-roles_1208959.jpg)
![“I got involved through the director of the show [Top Chef], he's a director of films in Mexico; I worked with him before. I watched the show in English -many times for many years - and I always loved it. As soon as I heard about having an opportunity to showcase Mexico in a different way, to show…” quote by Ana Claudia Talancon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf6/ana-claudia-talancon-62025_beautiful_i-got-involved-through-the-director-of-t_1639863.jpg)
