Audience Quote by Ian Mckellen

Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you're working…

— Jessica Lange

An actor is nothing without the vision of the director. The director needs to have a vision that will cross boundaries, that makes the…

— Manoj Bajpayee

As an actor, you're always nervous as to what a director will do with something.

— Kevin Spacey

On stage, the audience watches from a fixed viewpoint and the director cannot retake something he doesn't like. It has to work straight through.

— Bruce Beresford

As an actor you have to deliver what the director wants.

— Saqib Saleem

As an actor, youre always nervous as to what a director will do with something.

— Kevin Spacey

I don't think it's a director's job to peek behind the curtain too much.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

A director should be in a position where he is only directing. On the sets, he is only looking at the performances, thinking 'How…

— Rajkumar Hirani

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

As a director, you never think about how an audience would respond. You can think about that, but you will never change what you're…

— Juan Antonio Bayona

A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.

— Elia Kazan