Cinema Quote by Jessica Lange

The director's job is to know what emotional statement he wants a character to convey in his scene or his line, and to exercise…

— Stanley Kubrick

I think when you make a movie, one of your main focuses as a director is to inspire everyone else to give their best.…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of, distance between the action…

— James Gray

It's very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should…

— Kevin Hart

I have to say from an actor's perspective, to work with a director who has been an actor through most of their career is…

— Karen Allen

Having a director who is also an actor makes for that very relaxed way of working and it's empowering.

— Chris Hemsworth

To have a director that loves his actors is something that you can see in the film and in the fruits of that labor.…

— Vin Diesel

When you work with directors who really love actors, who love their contribution, it feels amazing. But sometimes when you work with directors, you…

— Ruth Negga

As a means of supporting experiential element in film, once I begin to work on a particular movie I consider myself to be the…

— Jack Nicholson

It's always great when a director is just supportive of what you're doing. They're not so much critiquing you but giving you more ideas,…

— Emma Roberts

It is truly connected to your job as an actor, and it benefits the character and the entire film to build a collaborative environment.

— Fred Hechinger

Just to get the basic fundamentals and empathy - I think that's the most important thing to bring to it if you've acted in…

— Scott Mechlowicz