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Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.
I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.
I think I have more of a director's brain than an actor's brain, in a way.
The duty of a film director is to focus more on the soul of the spectator.
I've been very lucky to work with a lot of amazingly supportive directors.
I like bold directors. I like directors that go against the norm in a way.
Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women.
In some way, the relationship between a director and an actor is personal.
If you see, as I do, in edited film, you're going to end up as a director.
All the directors that I've had the opportunity to work with are fantastic.
Directors don't always create, they can also destroy with too many demands.
I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.
The attitude of the director is really important, in terms of setting tone.
No English director would've cast me as an officer, I promise you. Not one.
I'm still confounded by how few female directors there are. I don't get it.
I never turned down anything and never argued with any producer or director.
I would like, in the long term, to be recognized as a writer-director-actor.
Why would people have confidence in a female director when there are so few?
If you are a writer/director, the [movie] characters are a part of yourself.
It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.
I'm always very interested in going and discovering a young director's films.
I think it's very boring for a director to always do the same kind of movies.
If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie.
A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.
I started as a director, but I was too bored with actors. I preferred to act.
As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic.
Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel.
Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.
Working with [Robert] De Niro taught me a lot about being an actor's director.
I've worked with very few directors who've asked of me what I asked of myself.
I tend to ... if I decide to do a job, want to be able to trust my director...
You dream as an actor's director of letting moments breathe through two-shots.
If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn't have directors at all.
The directors [who know every detail] make films that are complete, basically.
Many of the museum directors who make an impact personally curate exhibitions.
Some call me director, producer, filmmaker. I prefer to call myself pube-king.
The director is the channel through which a motion picture reaches the screen.
Let the child be the scriptwriter, the director and the actor in his own play.
I always choose my movie because of a director and a story and a, a character.
Acting doesn't exist in a vacuum. You need the director to have a set of eyes.
It's not often that you get a director, singing the praises of his executives.
The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.
I don't really consider myself a horror director or a violent director at all.
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid.
There's so many more female directors than when I started. That's encouraging.
I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.
I think that Phil Kaufman is one of the best directors that I have come across.
I don't think you can be a director without a kind of sense of competitiveness.