Chicago Quote by Mandy Patinkin

I feel the first ten years of my career I really didn't care what the director said because I felt so arrogant. I was…

— James Newton Howard

On the film where I didn't get along with the director, I just decided to not speak to him.

— Elizabeth Taylor

I turned in a script that meant a lot to me and an executive at Warner Bros said he was disappointed in me. I…

— Dustin Lance Black

Sometimes the directors were afraid of what they brought out of me.

— Jeanne Moreau

The last person who was brave enough to cast me was Rahul Bose in 'Everybody Says I'm Fine.' He gave me no choice. He…

— Pooja Bhatt

I can remember getting rejected systematically by casting directors as a young kid. I felt like the biggest outsider there ever was; that I'd…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

I've turned down good directors before because I knew the part didn't speak to me and I've worked with less talented directors before because…

— Ethan Hawke

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

There have been directors that I did not enjoy working with, but for the most part I realize that I have been unbelievably spoiled…

— Meryl Streep

I realized why directors are such horrible people - in a way - because you want things to be right, and people will just…

— George Lucas

I'd done some acting and I didn't like being told what to do by the director, the structure of it.

— Joe Lycett

I wish I could say that when I didn't agree with a director I defer to him, but I think sometimes I'm a little…

— Billy Crudup