I was the one who kept telling my second husband he should become a cinematographer. I paid for him to get his director’s card, and he went on to make ‘Godspell.’
I’m an actor’s director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.
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.
The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency.
The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.
I don’t feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn’t do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched.
I don’t really believe in the mystery of cinematography – what happens in the camera is what the cinematographers create and all that nonsense – I want the director to see what I’m trying to do.
Do whatever you’re directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director.
On stage, the audience watches from a fixed viewpoint and the director cannot retake something he doesn’t like. It has to work straight through.
Actors aren’t stupid, mostly, and if there’s a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director’s going for, if you’re aware of that too, you can do things to help that.
There are a lot of actors who will watch the monitors. They’ll do a scene, and then the director will look back to see if he got whatever he wanted. I just find it odd to sit there and watch yourself.
I was six years old when I saw my first Godard movie, eight when I first experienced Bergman. I wanted to be a director when I was fourteen.
I was taking hitting clinics every chance I got. I really worked on it. It was just fun to be given that invitation from the director to make the baseball as good as we can.
In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a serial kisser refuses to leave me.
Every time you say yes to a film there’s a certain percentage of your yes that has to do with the director, a certain percentage to do with the story, a certain percentage with the character, the location, etc.
A good director has to be a captain – he has to work with a lot of people every day.
You have a right to your opinion about the work that you’re doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances.
I had actually auditioned for a guest star role on ‘Legends of Tomorrow,’ and the show had the same casting director as ‘Riverdale.’
Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process.
The only person who has artistic control is the director, and ‘director’ is how you spell God in Hollywood.
The way I see it, when I go out as an actor, it should be on a type of film I’m never going to do as a director.
I think the toughest thing about being an actor in a film is to be with a director who doesn’t know what they want. And that can be really, really frustrating.
I believe the director’s primary role is to create an atmosphere where his company can be created.
Every movie you attack has its challenges, and I was excited about the challenges presented by ‘Deadpool.’ I was a huge fan of the original, and I think, as a director, you have to put the script first.
Direction is closest to my heart. I may run out of work as an actor as I get older, but I can work as a director even if I live up to be 90. I promised myself that I will direct a film every three years.
I do a film because I like the story and I want to give life to a character – I don’t necessarily have to agree with the director.
Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what one has experienced and understood about the human condition as it relates to the role one has been hired to portray.
I grew up the son of a director and grew up on sets myself, so I was the kid getting dragged around from this set to that set and I loved it. There’s something about it which is really interesting.
When I went to Jamia, I thought I wanted to be a cinematographer or photographer because I liked telling stories in pictures, but my teachers explained that if you want to tell your own stories then that is what a director does.
I want to work with a director who becomes my brother, my father, for two months. You give yourself over to that person.
Do you know what I’m working on now? My first feature as a director.
I was taken to one place by a director, and he bought me a lap dance.
Should Planned Parenthood be defunded, women will still have access to great quality healthcare. Speaking as a former Planned Parenthood director, I know that quality health care is best provided outside of Planned Parenthood.
When I work, I work very hard. So I look to work with people who have that level of dedication. And I depend on that from everyone. From the director to my crews that I work with.
I don’t watch many films. I just make sure my directors are really good. I will work even with a debut director, but the one-hour narration of the script should be mind-blowing.
Acting was a lot like football. When you’re a DB and you’re one on one with a receiver, you’re going to dance. It’s go-time in front of 100,000 people and everybody watching on TV. That’s exactly how it is when a director says ‘Action!’ It’s the same adrenaline rush, the same training process. I love it.
A good project but a poor director will always make a mediocre film, but an average script and good director can make a good film, as he will put in everything to make the film look good.
There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn’t do that. I’m not a pro.
The first director who ever allowed me to shoot a film for him was a male. He was a gay male. My first feature also came from him. I worked for a lot of dudes at NYU.
Nobody taught Picasso how to paint – he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can’t learn what’s right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you.
In cinema, the leading player is the director.
It’s not like every director in every movie is seeking me out by any means, there are a lot of things I’m not suited for, a lot of things I’m not interested in, and a lot of things that directors wouldn’t be interested in me for.
The director’s who want to be innovative use the DVD as a tool to see what people have done in the past and you have other people who will actually take from better directors and that makes them better directors.
I would love to have a part opposite a great actor – like, say, Pacino or De Niro or Hoffman. And to work with a top director. That’s my dream.
My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director.
I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn’t feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.
Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you’re a director. Everything after that you’re just negotiating your budget and your fee.
Considering that I’m British and I talk the way I do, I love it when a director takes a chance on me.
The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has.
Clint Eastwood. Here’s a guy who’s been involved in so many movies, lots of them masterpieces, and now he’s a director. I just like everything I know about him. He’s very decisive, he makes up his mind real quick.
My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
I don’t care if you marry someone who works at the grocery store or someone who is a director of a company; everyone should have their own identity.
I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone – you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.
I liked Vittorio De Sica a lot, and I got to work with him once in a segment movie. He was a great director. He was a very charismatic character and a guy I watched a lot when he was directing.
I’m very old-school. I like a director to direct me. I like to be the actor.
‘Mariah’ was the first series-regular role for me, and that really came about because of ‘Secret Honor.’ That really was a direct result of that. Because now I had an agent and was submitted for that part, for James Malone. And… I was the casting director’s first choice for James Malone.
