Cinema Quote by Cuba Gooding, Jr

As an actor, you're a color of paint on someone else's palette. But as a director, it's your canvas and you make the painting…

— Denzel Washington

I respect the fact that a director has studied the text and the road map of work before us, the subtleties, interconnections, underpinnings... His…

— Ruby Dee

I don't work from drawings and colour sketches into a final painting. Painting, I think, today - the more immediate, the more direct -…

— Jackson Pollock

When you're the director, you kinda do all the work.

— Brett Ratner

I think when you work with really wonderful directors who have a really strong vision, it lets you as an artist set the tone…

— Sarah Gadon

When I do a film, usually I work from my director. That's my boss. The director is interpreting the writer's vision, and we all…

— Juliette Lewis

The role of the painter . . . is to project that which sees itself in him.

— Max Ernst

I always think that the writer is doing the vast majority of the director's work, in a sense. If you're a writer who is…

— Harold Ramis

My strongest quality as an actor is taking direction. I will give my performance as a template and if the director gives any instruction,…

— James Preston Rogers

As a director, you have to go in with a really, really, really clear picture of what you want.

— David Slade

It all depends on the directors. Working closely with a director is the main job of a film composer. Interpreting what he perceives as…

— Danny Elfman

The director's job is to know what emotional statement he wants a character to convey in his scene or his line, and to exercise…

— Stanley Kubrick