Actors Quote by Dominic Monaghan

I'm not put off so much by first-time directors if the script is great. If the script isn't there, I'm not there.

— Sam Shepard

A script is only as good as the director who's making it.

— Helen McCrory

Once I start shooting I forget the scriptwriter in me. I like things flowing. If you have talented actors who bring their own ideas,…

— Fatih Ak?n

When you've written a script, if an actor has a question you're the writer as well as the director, so you have the answer.…

— John Michael McDonagh

A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into…

— Peter Mullan

I look at the script first and who's directing it and then talk to the director to find out what his vision of the…

— Frank Grillo

Eventually, I think I may end up directing. It would have to be the project where I think that I'm the person to direct…

— James Van Der Beek

In the end, whether I write the script or, in this case, somebody else did, there's a point where you let it go when…

— Todd Haynes

What you realize is that a lot of actors want to be directed. They're there to do the best job they can for the…

— Jon Turteltaub

I don't do a film with which I myself won't be happy. More than believing in the script, it should be fun shooting it.

— Nushrat Bharucha

I heard, one of my producers told me this story where like the Hollywood studios brought all these high-end consultants in to try to…

— Joseph Kosinski

You never have any idea where your movie's going to go when you're shooting - you're in this little bubble. Everything you care about…

— Morten Tyldum