Actors Quote by Sylvia Kristel

As an actor, you're a color of paint on someone else's palette. But as a director, it's your canvas and you make the painting…

— Denzel Washington

Filmmaking is a very collaborative art. Unlike a painting that an artist paints sitting by himself, as a director, you have to work with…

— Rajkumar Hirani

A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.

— Mary Astor

Film is definitely a director's medium. They're responsible for the look and everything, and you're a part of that process as an actor, and…

— Owen Wilson

If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director. Part of the freedom in directing, for me,…

— Patrice Leconte

The art of making films is a collaborative art. As a composer, you're always working with the cinematographer because he's so much the heart…

— Howard Shore

For me, it's important that a movie is the congregate of all art forms, from writing to art composition to music to performing. Trying…

— Mick Garris

The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him…

— Al Pacino

I think I'm a much better painter than an actor.

— Sylvester Stallone

I feel that, as an actor, you're constantly working to become better, which I love, but with painting, I can fail on my own…

— J. August Richards

Writers, Composers, Painters, - also artists like directors and actors fall into the same category. They have to be handled with kid gloves, mentally…

— Marlene Dietrich

As an actor, most of the time, you only have so much say in how, what and where things go. As a director, you…

— Eric Balfour