I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.

I love Krishna Vamsi very much as a director, and after working with him, I also started to like him personally.

And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.

The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.

David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.

As a director, I design every movie to be true to itself, and damn it if they like it, and damn it if they don't.

Andy was not a director and not a writer. He operated the camera a little bit, and he wasn't even so good at that.

Each picture has some sort of rhythm which only the director can give it. He has to be like the captain of a ship.

My wife Victoria Harwood was art director on 'Far North,' and she had designed my student film, 'The Sheep Thief.'

The director respects what they've hired you for and chosen you for: to do the part and respect what you're doing.

By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.

My first film that I got right after 'Spring Awakening' was called 'Taking Woodstock,' and Ang Lee was the director.

As an actress, you're part of what the director is creating, and as a model, you're representing a designer's vision.

I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine.'

In every shoot, between the actor and the director there is manipulation. I'm not saying that negatively. It's healthy.

I did a Norwegian film called 'Insomnia' that was remade and that was a good remake by a good director, so I'm honoured.

Being able to communicate what your vision is clearly and with specificity is the most important thing a director can do.

The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was told I was an actor.

My dad was a low budget film director. I grew up as a kid making movies, based on the love of seeing what my dad was doing.

I would be a terrible director, I could never write anything. One of my great strengths is that I know all of my weaknesses.

I believe the job of the FBI Director is to be as transparent as possible with the American people because we work for them.

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

The first thing I ask when I'm offered a part is, Who's the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles.

I think the power of opera has been shifted from the music to the director, because this is a very visual age that we live in.

Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.

Everyone wants to be a writer, director, producer. I don't have the imagination for that, but, hopefully, I can continue to act.

My greatest strength as an actor is that I follow my director's brief completely. The film is always the director's visual baby.

I majored in Chinese Studies. I'm probably the only director of chicken Indian zombie movies who can speak pretty good Mandarin.

I feel like I might be a designer or stylist - or a director because I have always been super interested in cameras and editing.

As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director.

My feeling about the movies is that most of them are terrible. If you don't have a decent script and a decent director, forget it.

The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes I'm the woman.

We should release films without revealing the director's name, as his or her gender would not be a barometer to watch those films.

The 20-year goal is to be a film director. The 15-year goal is to win an Oscar. The five-year goal is to just keep enjoying myself.

What I look for in a director is a strong point of view, a clear vision, and an ability to multitask and make decisions on the fly.

I had actually auditioned for a guest star role on 'Legends of Tomorrow,' and the show had the same casting director as 'Riverdale.'

If everybody had 100% record of hits and flops, there would have been no surprises. There's not one director with 100% success rate.

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

Honestly, as a director, at least for me, if I start doing the same thing over and over again, I'm going to get bored really quickly.

Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique.

Whether it's t-shirt and jeans or full monster suit, I'm still an actor underneath it all, and a good director is going to know that.

When it comes to writing musicals, you write the best piece you can. Then, its destiny is in the hands of the actors and the director.

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

This is the problem I have: I write a play and I give it to a director and they say, 'I'll do it one condition: if you play the role.'

Part of an actor's job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how he tries to work.

As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over.

I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.

The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you don't have to shave or hold your stomach in anymore.

They say that theater is the actor's medium, television is the writer's medium and film is the director's medium, and it's really true.

An actor really suffers when the director isn't prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do it fast.

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