Become Quote by Carmen Dell'Orefice

The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor.

— Steve Buscemi

Yes, my uncle wanted me to be a cinematographer and he was disappointed when I gave up that dream to become an actress.

— Suhasini Maniratnam

I directed two films, not very successfully, and after that, I went back to being an actor and a producer.

— Kirk Douglas

I owe my whole career as a storyteller to my father. He was an actor/director/producer and teacher.

— John Lithgow

I had become a film director because I thought I could express something in an artful way.

— Paul Verhoeven

I tried to get Adam Sandler hired on a movie called "Brain Donors" and the producers wouldn't hire him. And a few years later,…

— Dennis Dugan

I was at film school when I made 'Small Debts' and I was a cinematographer, so I didn't actually study to be a director.

— Lynne Ramsay

And as a first time director I needed to work with someone that I felt comfortable with, and that I could get along with.…

— Duncan Jones

There was one director who crossed the line. I scolded him so much that he later never tried anything.

— Mumtaj

When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.

— Kathryn Bigelow

Every cinematographer I worked with had his own way of solving problems.

— Conrad Hall

To suddenly be working with one of the top-10 directors in the world, plus the film was in China, I almost blurted out, "How…

— Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa