Days Quote by Gary Payton

I worked in feature film casting right out of college and spent a lot of time working with actors, directors, and producers.

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies.

— John Frankenheimer

Ridiculously - fortunately - my first job was with Dustin Hoffman. I had a little part in this movie called Tootsie. And he taught…

— Geena Davis

I would like to work with people whose films I really like: Walter Salles, Woody Allen, Julio Medem.

— Audrey Tautou

I've worked with people from Fred Zinnemann, John Huston, through to Richard Fleischer, all of those boys from Hollywood and so on, and Sam…

— John Hurt

I worked on a Hal Hartley film. I think I was a PA for costumes.

— Kelly Reichardt

I've been an assistant for a number of years.

— Mike Phelan

When I got back into the film business after college, I started out as a production assistant.

— Mike Lookinland

I've been fortunate to work with several actors and directors who I look up to, and learned from each of them.

— Paul Dano

I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays.

— Casey Wilson

If people knew who I was I would not have able to experience the grind that an assistant director goes through.

— Akshara Haasan

Roger [Corman] didn't actually hire me, though. I was hired by AIP [American International Pictures], the studio that made the picture, which was Sam…

— Curtis Hanson