About yourself Quote by Viola Davis

Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.

— Gary Oldman

The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate. When you communicate comfortably, regardless of what you're saying, it can always…

— Kevin Hart

A director's job is to make something happen and it doesn't happen by itself. So you wheedle, you cajole, you flatter people, you tell…

— James Cameron

One of the most, in a weird way, encouraging things a director can say to an actor - I know this as an actor…

— Alan Rickman

You - as a director, you have to do your job, you have to show things, and you don't have to ask the actors…

— Michel Hazanavicius

When you trust your director completely, then you can relax, be spontaneous, be malleable.

— Bo Derek

To be a director, you have to be especially patient.

— Luciano Vincenzoni

When you are working hard, you don't have time for anything other than what you are doing in the scene and what the director…

— Robert De Niro

I’ve had unsatisfying experiences, but mostly it’s about communication, which is why I make an effort to talk to the director beforehand to make…

— Martin Starr

Its always great when a director is just supportive of what youre doing. Theyre not so much critiquing you but giving you more ideas,…

— Emma Roberts

I think, to be a director, sometimes you need to have certain hunches - you have to believe in some gut feeling.

— Wong Kar-wai

There's this weird thing about acting where you have to wait for somebody to ask you to do it; like you have to wait…

— Tom Sturridge