Ahead Quote by Juliette Binoche

Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often.

— Catherine Deneuve

Usually when you meet with a director, just meeting them after you've seen something you're interested in, they say, "Oh I'd love to work…

— Willem Dafoe

I sometimes tell a director that I want to work with him. I tell him twice. After that if he still doesn't give me…

— Javed Jaffrey

The way that I deal with actors as a director is I just talk to them forever before we even arrive on set.

— Sam Levinson

As a director, nobody told me I'd be talking to people all day. I'm naturally reclusive - I feel myself peek out at a…

— Pete Docter

Most directors that I've worked with - I've worked with before, especially in Holland - and they know that I'm somebody who talks and…

— Carice van Houten

The things I'm most excited about are projects I'm producing. But if a director I'd love to work with calls, I'm always game.

— Malik Yoba

If there's one thing that I know how to do, it's talk to actors. From what I have experienced working with so many different…

— Carrie Preston

I try to build relationships with the actors, at least to some degree beforehand, whether it's phone calls because I'm from Seattle or all…

— Lynn Shelton

I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the…

— Jane Campion

Directors always used to be like the police to me - the enemy, the people to tell me what to do when I didn't…

— Helen Mirren

I don't really like directing. I've had a good relationship with actors, but I can do what I do and back off. I don't…

— Gordon Willis