Cinema Quote by Colm Meaney

It's wonderful to work on footage by someone who understands how to get it to cut right, which a lot of directors don't.

— Thelma Schoonmaker

As actors, if the director doesn't cut, then you just keep going.

— Fala Chen

I watched a couple of really bad directors work, and I saw how they completely botched it up and missed the visual opportunities of…

— James Cameron

As an actor, I had noticed very vividly that very few directors know how to direct actors because they haven't done it.

— Robin Wright

There are certain directors I have worked with who build up the scene and get you all excited, but when you actually do it,…

— Vivek Oberoi

It's rare that I'm working on a movie and that's the case. My goal is the same, ultimately at a certain point you give…

— Charles Roven

As an actor, I look at scenes much differently than I would look at them as a director, and I never realized that until…

— Jensen Ackles

As a director, I know everybody's job, and I know how to do it. I can smell bullshit when someone's telling me it can't…

— Tim Matheson

There are times when directors just don't know what they're doing.

— Christopher Atkins

Some filmmakers go into a film and it's already shot and cut in their head.

— Johnny Depp

With film, so much is in the director's hands. Once something is cut together - unless you're in the editing room - you don't…

— Julia Stiles

Fundamentally, I always find that most of the films that I've put out are essentially the director's cut. Part of the process with a…

— Ridley Scott