Directors Quote by Dakin Matthews Download Open image “Often, directors toss playwrights out of rehearsals.” — Dakin Matthews ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Directors Out Playwrights Rehearsals
With a stage play, they can't cut a word; you can be in rehearsals every day, you cast it, you cast the director, too;… — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
It's madness to hand in a script to a director, leave them alone, and for the director not to want the writer there with… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
A lot of directors keep writers away because the writers know the script better than anybody, obviously they do, and they have certain intents.… — Glenn Ficarra Copy Share Image
I thought a director was like a pillow who sat under the writer, supporting them and submitting to their vision. It took me a… — John Tiffany Copy Share Image
So many directors these days direct by design and shoehorn you into things - direction or blocking - that they had in mind previously.… — Christian Cooke Copy Share Image
It's highly dishonorable to ever quit a production. I never have done it, and I can't imagine ever doing it. However, I have been… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
Directors go their whole career without being able to tell personal stories and to work with a cast as talented as they are. — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
I love rehearsing, but a lot of directors don't, and some actors don't. — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together to create… — John Guare Copy Share Image
Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers. — Katori Hall Copy Share Image
Moliere exaggerates common vices of mankind: lust, greed, misanthropy, hypocrisy. We all have a touch of these. — Dakin Matthews Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that theatre is a doomed profession, but if a person wants to stay in it very long, they'd better develop theatre… — Dakin Matthews Copy Share Image
You can't argue that you have to have art, and prove it to anybody. Why should I give $1,000 to art when there are… — Dakin Matthews Copy Share Image
I didn't ever intend to or want to be an actor. I'm not one of those people of whom they say, 'If you can't… — Dakin Matthews Copy Share Image
Theater is a local art. You perform for the people in the theater that day. — Dakin Matthews Copy Share Image
I'm making my Broadway musical debut at the age of 73 - it's a kind of interesting career arc. — Dakin Matthews Copy Share Image
If an L.A. actor is a star or a good face, and they want to get cred by doing a serious Shakespeare play, they… — Dakin Matthews Copy Share Image
I'm here in Hollywood to do film and television and make enough money to get my kids through college. — Dakin Matthews Copy Share Image
Why did Erich von Stronheim leave Germany? Why did Hitchcock leave England? If you were a director you'd like to work in Hollywood too.… — Roman Polanski Copy Share Image
A successful director is someone who has the combination of skills that you can learn, but there's also an intuitive sensibility that they bring… — Rick Heinrichs Copy Share Image
When you're the director and the writer, you never have to remember your lines, and there's no one to call you on it. On… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation. — J. Hoberman Copy Share Image
Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's… — Campbell Scott Copy Share Image
The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself. — Taylor Hackford Copy Share Image
I was in good shape from Divergent. Damien Chazelle, the director of Whiplash told me, ‘Stop Working Out! Don’t go outside!’ He wanted me… — Miles Teller Copy Share Image
I had a very blessed journey with the upbringing I had. When you're working on sets as a stuntman, you have a firsthand account… — Ric Roman Waugh Copy Share Image
I'm seen as a little risky to the industry, I think. All my favorite directors are. — Sean Baker Copy Share Image
Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a pro. — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
I understand the formula that producers hire directors and directors are hired to direct and actors are hired to act. I don't have any… — Danny Trejo Copy Share Image
