Cinema Quote by James Watkins Download Open image “It helps for actors if you have one director.” — James Watkins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cinema Director Helps Theatre You
Look, a lot of directors were actors, even if they were unsuccessful actors which I think is helpful. I think it's a really helpful… — Grant Heslov Copy Share Image
Being an actor really, really strengthens me as a director. There's just a certain type of understanding that comes from having been there and… — Aaron Ruell Copy Share Image
I think acting really helps as a director. It's just no question, because you totally understand the acting process. — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Having a director who is also an actor makes for that very relaxed way of working and it's empowering. — Chris Hemsworth 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
There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps. — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
I've seen what a difference a good director can make to an actor's performance. — Soha Ali Khan Copy Share Image
I think acting helps me as a director no matter what. There is something about being reminded about the vulnerability it takes to be… — Marielle Heller Copy Share Image
As a director you want to have actors, not only surpassing themselves, but also going somewhere, going different places. — Xavier Dolan Copy Share Image
Part of an actor's job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how he tries… — David Zayas Copy Share Image
A good working relationship between an actor and the director is very important. It takes a while to build a comfort zone because filmmaking… — Rasika Dugal Copy Share Image
If you think about the traditional mafia stories we grew up on, it is always about the death of criminal organisations - things like… — James Watkins Copy Share Image
The opportunity to be able to tell long-form character stories is something that TV affords and is therefore a terrain that a lot of… — James Watkins Copy Share Image
We want 'McMafia' to be a tense gangster story but also a family story. It's a collusion of those two worlds. — James Watkins Copy Share Image
We think criminality is something that exists in somehow another world to us. But actually, there is an invisible criminal web in which we… — James Watkins Copy Share Image
As a screenwriter, you are so used to things going in directions that you wouldn't have taken, so to be able to say, 'This… — James Watkins Copy Share Image
Parents fear for their children. Absolutely, I think it's a deep and troubling theme to explore. — James Watkins Copy Share Image
There are a lot of horror films out there that are nasty, but what's nasty isn't necessarily scary. — James Watkins Copy Share Image
If you look at 'The Sopranos,' there's this notion of a criminal element on its last legs. — James Watkins Copy Share Image
If you look around in London, there is a lot of dirty money. People see it as a safe haven: a bolthole to rely… — James Watkins Copy Share Image
Television is ever more ambitious, more akin to the Victorian novel with multiple narratives and more discursive material. — James Watkins Copy Share Image
I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people. — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong.… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play.… — Laura Carmichael Copy Share Image
I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image