If the audience gets everything, if they see the photography and notice that it is good, then the story goes out the… — Frank Capra Copy Share Image
If you look at what Ben Affleck has gone on to do, as an actor and as a director, it's extraordinary. But… — Joseph McGinty Nichol Copy Share Image
From my studies of genetics and neuroscience I have come to believe that people fall into four broad personality types - each… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Directors are always changing things at the last minute. Actors will do a scene, and the director will say, ‘Okay, that was… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
You don't pick black actors or black directors because they are black. You pick them because they are good. If you lend… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
To have a director that loves his actors is something that you can see in the film and in the fruits of… — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
There certainly is no secret in that there are plenty of people who don't like plenty of my movies. Each one of… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. ... (when asked who wrote 'Some Enchanted Evening') Rodgers and Hammerstein, if… — Cole Porter Copy Share Image
The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum,… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
In Hong Kong, particularly, we craft this art for decades. The action choreographer actually is the action director. He takes over and… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
Tony Scott was one of the best directors I've ever worked with, and I was devastated when I heard about his death.… — Christian Slater Copy Share Image
A lot of student directors used to pick other students to be in their graduate films, so. I ended up doing a… — Brian Austin Green Copy Share Image
You were designed to be very smart, Max,' she told me. 'We electrically stimulated your synaptic nerve endings while your brain was… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a film student again, as a man in my 60s. To go someplace alone and see what you… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
We want to make the best television possible. We should be drawing on the entire available pool of storytellers and directors, and… — John Landgraf Copy Share Image
There was a time when I first started that there was such a thing called 'a woman's film' and there were certain… — Gurinder Chadha Copy Share Image
The thing is this: I've got an amazing career in England that couldn't possibly get much better. I do the best theater… — Lesley Manville Copy Share Image
Acting is always more fun for me.I love being a part of a story, I love collaborating, I love working with different… — John Krasinski Copy Share Image
It [the scene] can be something given to you and you go, "Ah this is a good idea, I can work with… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
Film works when a director and a star have a connection. You know, when there's something telekinetic between them, there's a partnership,… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
I know you can't see it, not you, Ed, but maybe if I tell you the whole plot you'll understand it this… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
There are two parts of me. There's the really critical, film-nerd part of me that loves that, and then there's the part… — Anton Yelchin Copy Share Image
But the audience is right. They're always, always right. You hear directors complain that the advertising was lousy, the distribution is no… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
If you are able to see on a monitor what it's actually going to look like and have that kind of feedback… — Rick Heinrichs Copy Share Image
We do not precisely enjoy liberty at the Figaro. M. de Latouche, our worthy director (ah! you should know the fellow), is… — George Sand Copy Share Image
As a film director and as film actors, you get used to a certain rhythm that's slow. But with TV, it's hurry,… — Lee Daniels Copy Share Image
A lot of these roles that I feel like I've had some sort of impact, or that have had an effect on… — Elias Koteas 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
One of the things that's awesome about being an actor is that you get to do stories, live lives and have experiences… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
If the director wishes to print it, then you have a series of choices, maybe millions of choices within that minute-and-a-half, or… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
I don't care if you hate me or if you like me, as long as somebody gives me a character that is… — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
I have never watched property programmes. I watch Property Ladder, because I feel it's very rude for a director to work very… — Sarah Beeny Copy Share Image
The one thing about program television that's absolutely incompatible with any concept of art is that all decisions have to be made… — Alexander Kluge Copy Share Image
Jumping twenty or so years later, Ann Ciccolella, artistic director of Austin Shakespeare, approached me with the idea of staging Anthem. She… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
The director is the most important because, ultimately, as an actor, when you watch a movie, it looks like an actor is… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
A lot of the projects that I do, I like to be involved with earlier. I just feel that, certainly from an… — Clive Owen Copy Share Image
There are American directors I'd really like to work with, but I don't know how much I want to be sitting in… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
I love to take chances. I love first-time directors. I love super-low-budget movies. I've done 80-something movies, and I want to just… — Beth Grant 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
![“It [the scene] can be something given to you and you go, "Ah this is a good idea, I can work with this." Sometimes it cuts right across your instinct and that's when I might resist. Even if the director might be insistent, I think it's very important to say, "Look, I'm not feeling this. I'll try…” quote by Ralph Fiennes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a8f/ralph-fiennes-7066_cutting_it-the-scene-can-be-something-given-to-y_551000.jpg)
