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When you work with someone you don't quite know, you have to figure the director out and you can come up with ideas that are counter-productive. — Stellan Skarsgard

I believe the director's primary role is to create an atmosphere where his company can be created. — Charles Keating

I look at life as being cruise director on the Titanic. I may not get there, but I'm going first class. — Art Buchwald

Major differences in projects happen due to budget, director's styles, and genre of script, not industry. — Tena Desae

You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings. — Norman Lear

The audience has always been my best director. — Eartha Kitt

An actor can be as talented as another, but if he doesn't stick to what the director's intentions are, it all falls down. I adore working with actors. — Nicholas Ray

My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor. — Quentin Tarantino

I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm. — Bernard Hinault

That is a big turn-on for me, a director who knows what he's doing and what he wants, and knows when he's gotten what he wants. — Morgan Freeman

I actually love Scorsese comedies. He's an underrated comedy director. I think his comedies are some of the best comedies ever made. — Julie Delpy

To Walk In Direction Is A Function That The Director Is Aware — Sunday Adelaja

I've done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading. — Kevin Hart

David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation. — J. Hoberman

As an actor, you're always nervous as to what a director will do with something. — Kevin Spacey

It's so hard to find a director who, when you look at their body of work, you like everything. — Lorenzo Di Bonaventura

It does make you a better director and a better actor. — Charles Keating

Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me. — Tim Burton

The first movie I did was 'Dan in Real Life,' which was directed by Peter Hedges, the same director who did 'The Odd Life of Timothy Green.' — CJ Adams

My taste in the films I've taken as an actor is similar to what I'd do a director or writer: all quite odd, challenging stuff, slightly off-the-wall. — Daniel Radcliffe

I look for the role that excites me and work with whoever that director happens to be, wherever he wants to shoot the film. — Russell Crowe

How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand. — Gary Oldman

We can all benefit by learning to express and meet out physical needs in a loving, caressing and compassionate way — David Bresler

I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director. — Bette Davis

Alexander Gonzalez Inarritu is a great director. He's the one I first worked with. He's amazing. — Gael Garcia Bernal

To the audience it doesn't really matter how much the director struggled with an actor. It's the result that counts. — Roman Polanski

I'm a believer in trusting the director. — B.J. Novak

Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

What you do is get the right director and the right screenwriter and the right cast. It's a fantastic job. — Robbie Coltrane

My kind of director is an actor-director who writes. — Orson Welles

When I do any stand-up, you're the writer, director, and producer. You're alone. — Andrew Dice Clay

The best director is the one you don't see. — Billy Wilder

My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer and my mom's a director and writer. — Troian Bellisario

Everything is the director's fault - you can quote me on that. There are no excuses. — Steven Soderbergh

In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression. — Bela Lugosi

I think it's important that a director be able to know his characters inside and out. — George Tillman Jr.

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

Finally, after Death was ready to hang himself from boredom, the director cleared his throat. — Leigh Teale

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director. — Alfred Hitchcock

If we really exist merely to fulfill God's plan: then life is a television drama; with God being the scriptwriter, the director, and, the audience. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It's not my job to try and alter the director's style - he's in charge, and I'll always give him my trust. — Ewan McGregor

I feel comfortable with either digital or film - the director and the project should determine the course of choice. — Robert Richardson

As an actor and director, you have to take risks, even though I don't like saying that word. You can make a mistake. — Jean Dujardin

If I feel the part is right, and I know that the producers and the director want me, I'd go for broke. Always. — Anne Archer

I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim. — Alfred Hitchcock

I never wanted to be a director. — Albert Brooks

My main interest in being a director, and the most important thing to me, is that world with the actors. — Matt Reeves

I tend to project my father figure onto any director that I'm working with, or mother, if I'm working with a female, or it can be confused. — Guy Pearce

Being a writer-director can sometimes make you incredibly blinkered. — Anthony Minghella

Directing, I just feel comfortable. I know what I want. I know what I want from my crew. I lead by example. I have limitless energy as a director. — Ricky Schroder

Every film had its own grammar. And it's your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a story. — Darren Aronofsky

From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker. — Donnie Yen

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 director. — Andy Garcia

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 for a director to say it's okay. — Tom Sturridge

A film is a director's vision ... there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have. — Natasha Richardson

I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director. — Baltasar Kormakur

I'm like a movie director, so wherever I feel that I need to go over this type of beat, that's what I'm going to do, that's where I'm going to go. — Ghostface Killah

Theater is very much the world I'd like to get back to, particularly in New York, both as an actor and director. — Jason Alexander

Oh, well, in Los Angeles everybody is an actor, or a producer, or a writer, or a director, or an agent, or ... So everybody understands the hours. — Julie Benz

Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed. — Elia Kazan

I am a director. I'm the one who can order men around. — Lina Wertmuller

And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration. — Sidney Blumenthal

If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie. — Hans Zimmer

Clint Eastwood is an extraordinary director because he knows the value of a buck. He knows where it will show on the screen. — Angela Lansbury

I would like, in the long term, to be recognized as a writer-director-actor. — Corey Feldman

You don't often get a proposal to do Tolstoy for a really interesting director - that's easy to say yes to. — Tom Stoppard

The core of a director is the person's tastes in what elements go together and how they go together. It's a puzzle. — Andre Ovredal

When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present. — Stanley Crouch

How can you have a director that doesn't go to work with the crew every day and talk to them? — Don Bluth

If you have a screaming angry director, everyone else will be panicked as well. — Bryan Cranston

It's the first film that I made where the director was not present under the camera, and it threw me. — Leslie Caron

The lack of women directors is a sad fact of life. Kathryn Bigelow's thrilling Best Director win may help turn things around. — Lynda Obst

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process. — Oliver Stone

I tend to, if I decide to do a job, want to be able to trust my director. — Charlize Theron

I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director. — Harold Prince

Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else. — Richard Wagner

Every director is different. And all the movies are very different, and the characters are very different. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The secret is you need a director who refuses to walk away and you need a director willing to put their whole career behind the project. — Ruba Nadda

The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor. — Steve Buscemi

I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house. — Eric Bogosian

bitchy when required, and entertainment director once I was able. I may never find the words of gratitude equal to all Sam did. — Genna Rulon

As a stunt guy, you become a mini-director. You're talking to actors about performance. — David Leitch

There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival. — Salma Hayek

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

I didn't just see myself as a film director here [in Life And Nothing More], but also as an observer of people who had been condemned to death. — Abbas Kiarostami

Nails. The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says. — Chuck Palahniuk

As a film director I like to have the actors create their own close-ups. It's an older style of filmmaking. — Stanley Tucci

On a movie set that works, you have your father figure, the director, you have your siblings, your other actors. — Richard Gere

It's a very tricky relationship, the cinematographer and the director as a woman. — Patricia Riggen

I've always had the utmost respect and awe of what the lens can do and what a director can do with just a camera move. — Matthew Gray Gubler

I like the conscious manipulation that a great director can have. When you're both complicit in the manipulation of an emotion. — Jake Gyllenhaal

The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it. — Jim Dale

I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game. — Bob Balaban

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie. — Matt Damon

It can be a bit annoying if another actor is trying to talk to the director and the wife is sitting on his lap. — Colin Farrell

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination. — Alan Rickman

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you. — Billy Wilder

You can't always expect to work with a director who guarantees success. — Dhanush

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on. — Dino De Laurentiis

Somebody who likes to do my plays is a good director for them. — Tom Stoppard