Directors Quote by Judd Nelson

Listen, there are some movies that are set in stone and the writer or the director does not want to change, but I've never…

— Albert Brooks

When you're on stage with an audience, the director's nowhere to be seen. He's onto the next job.

— Ian Mckellen

There's very few directors that know what that rehearsal's for. And often it's just about calming down the director. If he could see it…

— Ewan McGregor

The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.

— Wayne Rogers

The collaboration really begins once the rehearsal starts. This is when the actor takes his place, because he becomes the one who is going…

— Angela Lansbury

But it was not possible to do this movie, in this matter of time, without a solid rehearsal period.

— Debbie Allen

In the theatre, the actor is in total control. The director wasn't in the house last night, the designer wasn't there, the author's dead.…

— Ian Mckellen

James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct…

— Leslie Caron

But you really - I always think that a director has got to adapt to whatever the needs of the actor are. You know,…

— Bill Condon

There were a few things that, in rehearsal, any one of us might try. [John] Hughes would go, "I like that," to me spitting…

— Judd Nelson

Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to…

— Stephen Fry

To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.

— James Dean