Behind Quote by Diego Klattenhoff

You can't show up on set and expect it all to come together. You have to have a plan, much like how the director…

— Bruce Campbell

For me, you have to do as much work as you can beforehand and, once you get on stage or set, throw it out…

— Brian Gleeson

You - as a director, you have to do your job, you have to show things, and you don't have to ask the actors…

— Michel Hazanavicius

If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.

— Michael Caine

If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the execution for…

— John Patrick Shanley

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can…

— James Dean

As actors, when you can't be in the room with the casting director or the producers, you put yourself on tape and send it…

— Ricky Whittle

Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

— Fanny Brice

I want to cast correctly, and then I want them to live on screen. If I cast the wrong actor, I'm screwed. But, if…

— Andre Øvredal

On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to…

— Greta Scacchi

I am not a master-class director. I am not a teacher. I am a coach. I dont have a methodology. Each actor is different.…

— Sam Mendes

I get to be in a room with other actors, but I never, or very rarely, get the chance to be in a room…

— Joe Mantello