Able Quote by Robert Osborne

It was great to watch Orson Welles, not only as an actor but as a director.

— Max von Sydow

That suspension of disbelief that's required as an actor to live truthfully in imaginary circumstances is different to what needs to happen as a…

— Alex O'Loughlin

There's a paraphrase about Orson Welles saying: "Great films are made by great directors and the rest are made by everyone else." I've been…

— Colin Firth

Director of any film is very important, and an actor has to leave himself in his hands to mould.

— Leander Paes

When you think of a particular director, you think you would have liked to be with them on one particular film and not necessarily…

— Clint Eastwood

I wanted to meet Orson Welles. So I was like, whatever, somehow get me in on this. I'm able to get cast in it,…

— Judd Nelson

The strange thing about directing, for me, was that opportunities arose; I'd had some nice roles as an actor, but it just never happened…

— Sean Mathias

When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.

— Kathryn Bigelow

As an actor, I look at scenes much differently than I would look at them as a director, and I never realized that until…

— Jensen Ackles

In Hitchcocks eyes the movement was dramatic, not the acting. When he wanted the audience to be moved, he moved the camera. He was…

— Bruce Dern

I really got into film noir was when I was supposed to play Orson Welles in a movie.

— Jacob Elordi

As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss and has all the power. I'm a control…

— Ebon Moss-Bachrach