Actor Quote by Arthur Penn

Television can become a bit of a treadmill for directors. You come in, nobody knows you, the actors are already doing what they're doing,…

— Michael J. Bassett

The really important people in TV are not the directors; they're the writers.

— Mary Harron

The directors you want to work with are in the television world.

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Directors don't get to see other directors at work - they're the only one on the set. I've met directors who've asked me what…

— Colin Firth

There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps.

— Luke Evans

Scripts and directors make great actors, not the other way around.

— Ali Fazal

One thing that is true in TV is that you do hire the directors. As the writer, it's very different than in features, where…

— Zak Penn

You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an actor or understands acting.…

— Ian Somerhalder

I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know; they just don't have roles on famous TV shows that…

— Danny Strong

Usually in TV... A TV director could be anything from a main grip to just a glorified cameraman, and sometimes a director can be…

— Edgar Wright

A lot of times, directors don't know how to speak to actors, or writers don't know how to communicate.

— Michael Mosley

When a subject pops into a director's head, you either fit in there somewhere, or you don't. An actor is only who he is.…

— Charlotte Rampling