Able Quote by Sean Penn

I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want to do.…

— Valeria Golino

I think the reason I was able to get the jobs I did is because I worked for some very strong, self-possessed filmmakers who…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

If you have the right actors and you can give them the freedom to explore, you've done a lot of your work as a…

— Andy Garcia

I've worked with some very good directors and some very bad ones. I learned a great deal from both. From the bad, untalented people,…

— Tommy Lee Jones

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to…

— Anthony Minghella

I've worked with more than 50 directors and I've paid attention since day one. That's pretty much been my education, apart from studying art…

— Tommy Lee Jones

I grew as an actress, and I feel I gained a lot, whenever I have worked with any great director in the past.

— Huma Qureshi

Movies are certainly a director's medium, so getting the opportunity to work with really good directors is everything to me.

— Clive Owen

As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into…

— Griffin Dunne

From my earliest days as an actress, I had always been drawn to learning the director's job.

— Sondra Locke

I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.

— Antoine Fuqua

In the neighborhood around Waseda, there were all these movie theaters, so every morning I left the house and watched movies instead of going…

— Hirokazu Koreeda