Bits Quote by Mark Duplass

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

As actors, we have the opportunity to work with many directors. Directors only work with themselves and other actors. They never know what it…

— Tom Hardy

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

As a director, your job can range from having to lean on someone to get a performance out of them, to someone being so…

— Shane Meadows

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

As a director, you never get to watch other directors work, and you also don't get to collaborate with other directors that much.

— Spike Jonze

When a relationship with a director is really working, you have the same idea at the same time. You go, 'Look, this isn't working,'…

— Felicity Jones

I've talked to a lot of directors who direct solo like most directors. And they're always like, 'Oh, man I wish I had somebody…

— Anna Boden

Be collaborative. I've had some of my best experiences with directors who were able to sit down and have a conversation and ask me…

— Michael B. Jordan

Sometimes directors may not give you words, you know? They may not talk at all! You've just got to use your radar to figure…

— Faith Prince

I've been in this business a long time, and I've worked with a lot of different directors now. It's cool to get the chance…

— Michael Rooker

When there's an actor involved, the actor's talking to the director or the director's talking to the actor. But when there are not those…

— Cherien Dabis