Cinema Quote by Mary Harron

Television can become a bit of a treadmill for directors. You come in, nobody knows you, the actors are already doing what they're doing,…

— Michael J. Bassett

Hollywood's best producers and directors are in film, not TV.

— Tim Pigott-Smith

A lot of directors in television have come up through the technical ranks. They have all the technical skills in the world. They're not…

— Arthur Penn

The directors you want to work with are in the television world.

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

A lot of directors don't really like actors.

— Joe Wright

Scripts and directors make great actors, not the other way around.

— Ali Fazal

One thing that is true in TV is that you do hire the directors. As the writer, it's very different than in features, where…

— Zak Penn

I think when it comes to television as opposed to film, the producers really are the writers. We work with people who are purely…

— Marc Guggenheim

Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.

— Todd Solondz

The director in TV and the writer and the creator are working very much hand in hand.

— Jim Rash

Directors go their whole career without being able to tell personal stories and to work with a cast as talented as they are.

— Christian Bale

I don't believe that all actors should end up being directors.

— Rebecca Hall