A big thing for me is trusting the director, so I don't need to watch playback. I feel like the director is… — Juno Temple Copy Share Image
My philosophy is, 'Show up, shut up, and do your job,' and if you do it to the satisfaction of your director… — Stephen Lang Copy Share Image
There's a bunch of directors that I really admire, and Australian ones as well. It would be nice to do a film… — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
It would help a lot of directors if they tried a little bit of acting, so they can understand what the process… — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
In Hollywood there's no real material. They would send me stuff, but I hadn't even seen the director. If I don't see… — Emmanuelle Beart Copy Share Image
The director, Antoine Fuqua, relies on small details, which anchor the vigilante-as-saint myth in at least a minimal degree of reality. — David Denby Copy Share Image
If you are a star in Hollywood then you are always a star in your eyes, but not always in the eyes… — Lee Grant Copy Share Image
As a director, there is nothing more fun than seeing an audience screaming and jumping. You are the ultimate puppet master, controlling… — Fede Alvarez Copy Share Image
It never occurred to me to be a film director, partly because I hadn't seen a single film by a female director,… — Mary Harron Copy Share Image
The Vietnamese Hoa were merchants and manufacturers. They were very successful and thus, according to the logic of Marxism, responsible for society's… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I don't want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in this industry… — Shigeru Miyamoto Copy Share Image
I fall in love with all the people I'm working with, women, directors, everybody. As actors, that's actually one of the real… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
No matter what, when you major in theater arts whether you want to write or be a director or design scenery or… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
Appearing in 'Legally Blonde' has helped me find my inner girl, although at the beginning the director was constantly telling me off… — Sheridan Smith Copy Share Image
I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population - and gave birth to the whole… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
I was staying on [writer/director/actor] Eric Schaeffer's couch in New York, and he said, "I've got this movie [If Lucy Fell]. Can… — Ben Stiller 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
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 do feel, like everyone, there's not enough female directors out there, there's not enough female producers, and would like to see… — Barbara Crampton Copy Share Image
I never had a burning desire to direct. But Burt and I, on many pictures together, used to watch other directors and… — Hal Needham Copy Share Image
I stopped directing in 2001 for - oh, damn - four or five years, until I did the TV series 'Masters Of… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
The director's in charge of every single decision [in film]. It's a dictatorship.It's a benevolent dictatorship, but it's true. It's every single… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
The first time I ever intersected with the quote unquote industry or Hollywood or being given a paid job as a director… — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
There are so many directors that I want to work with, but I can't tell you that there's one role. If I… — Ayelet Zurer Copy Share Image
I used to hang out with a group of aspiring directors before 'Pizza' happened. We used to discuss a lot of stories… — Vijay Sethupathi Copy Share Image
I've been really lucky to work with a lot of theater directors in the film, like Stephen Daldry on 'The Crown' and… — Vanessa Kirby Copy Share Image
There were many, many other 'Django' films following mine, with other actors and directors, but there is only one 'Django.' — Franco Nero Copy Share Image
You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an actor or… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
I've worked on shows where the lead actor doesn't know their lines, doesn't care, and it affects everybody - the crew, the… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
I've turned down good directors before because I knew the part didn't speak to me and I've worked with less talented directors… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
Sometimes writers or writer-directors can get nuts about words, but you know and I know that it's the thought process behind the… — John Kapelos Copy Share Image
I think when you have some success as a kid, your notion of being a good actor is pleasing the director, doing… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
I have always been up for risks, but only because I had full confidence and faith in the vision of my directors. — Abhay Deol Copy Share Image
Steven Spielberg makes Minority Report with the newest digital technology; other directors seem to be trying to make their movies from it. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I've never quite understood the idea of a "season." Whenever an artistic director says to me, 'I have this slot,' I always… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
Some directors are comfortable with music. Some feel comfortable discussing and talking and operating in a musical language. Others don't engage so… — Henry Jackman Copy Share Image
Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field… — John Milius Copy Share Image
I always want to do something I haven't done before and get to work with other actors, writers, or directors that I… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
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