Cinema Quote by Brent Spiner

Scorsese is a fan of improv and is always pushing actors to think up something that would make the scene more fun. He loves…

— Michael Stuhlbarg

Martin Scorsese was very much the actor's director. We were all very in awe of Martin Scorsese.

— John Heard

It was a fabulous experience shooting [in the Aviator], working with Leo [DiCaprio] and Danny Huston in the scene. It was great. I think…

— Brent Spiner

Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work.

— Alan Parker

It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan…

— J. B. Smoove

It's tough to get any film made, even if you're Martin Scorsese. It's just hard to get films made.

— Amy Sherman-Palladino

I think the best work of the director is to listen to what all the technicians around him have to say, but then the…

— Marjane Satrapi

What you do is get the right director and the right screenwriter and the right cast. It's a fantastic job.

— Robbie Coltrane

It's always interesting to see a director trying different things, and on top of it, doing it right each and almost every time.

— Vincent Cassel

All great directors or anyone who has a strong vision like Scorsese needs to have a lot of support around them. I think from…

— Thelma Schoonmaker

I worked with the best directors - Martin Scorsese, John Huston, David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock. Alfred Hitchcock was great.

— Harry Dean Stanton

I don't think film is the writer's medium, and so I was interested to see what a director would do with it.

— Daniel Handler