Character Quote by Xavier Gens

As an actor you have to bring to the table your creative input. But when a director like Ridley Scott says I want you…

— Cuba Gooding, Jr

As an actor, we can only do what the director wants. Only the director has a vision of the entire film.

— Mohanlal

There are lots of people that make movies. It's not just the director.

— Paul Bettany

Yet as a director, I don't feel you have to identify with your characters as a requirement to make a movie.

— David Fincher

No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.

— Tommy Lee Jones

Everybody sees things their own way, but putting it onscreen is a different story - you have to deal with production crews. That's what…

— Emmanuel Benbihy

My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.

— Ivan Reitman

It would help a lot of directors if they tried a little bit of acting, so they can understand what the process is about.…

— Adrian Dunbar

There's very few directors I think in this industry that would pitch to a studio that they wanted to do a multi-layered almost at…

— Christopher Nolan

As an actor you have to deliver what the director wants.

— Saqib Saleem

I say yes to a film depending on who is directing it.

— Tamannaah

I have to say that whatever decisions I make, I really do think that movie making is a director's medium. They are the people…

— Leonardo DiCaprio