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Sometimes when I make a movie, my main goal is to show the movie to one particular director.
'Ides of March' I did for scale - scale as a director, scale as an actor, scale as a writer.
I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.
I'm at the mercy of others because I'm not a director. I'm not a producer. I'm not a writer.
A film is a director's vision... there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have.
As a producer, I probably am a little stronger than most, since I was a director originally.
My job as the director is to make that as authentic as I can and not to disturb the revelry.
When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me.
There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
If all the world's a stage and all the people players, who in bloody hell hired the director?
How can you have a director that doesn't go to work with the crew every day and talk to them?
Sometimes things are nothing on paper, but a genius director turns it into something amazing.
I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.
I think to be a good director you have to be a good person and you have to care about people.
I never feel like a smug or a smart-alec film director, and there are plenty of those around.
As a director, I wouldn't like me as an actor. As an actor, I wouldn't like me as a director.
The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.
For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.
The director's very important to me, particularly when the director has a recognizable style.
A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.
You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer.
There are all kinds of directors I want to work with and all kinds of films that I want to do.
When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.
When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there.
If everyone's comfortable, you can pretty much make any kind of movie that the director wants.
Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him.
My ideal role would be the lead in a film with a director that I really appreciate and admire.
It's so hard to find a director who, when you look at their body of work, you like everything.
Most actors go, I read the script and fell in love with it; I fall in love with the directors.
In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression.
I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
At times as an actor, it's often times unclear as to what the directors envision for a project.
More often than not, if you've got a good director and a good script you can't really go wrong.
When you're a director you always feel weird with another director watching over your shoulder.
I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.
As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.
I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.
That was okay [ working with George Clooney]. One of these days I'll work with a good director.
I never rewatch the great films of my favorite directors because I'm afraid they won't hold up.
With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.
We all steal, but if we're smart we steal from great directors. Then, we can call it influence.
Some directors are very free and some directors are very specific. It seemed like doing a play.
Bud [Yorkin] was the kindest and dearest man, and one of the most talented directors there was.
Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there.
I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.
It's an important thing to have a relationship with the director, and have it be a positive one.
I'm getting my respect as a video director. The fashion industry respects me and knows who I am.
Alexander Gonzalez Inarritu is a great director. He's the one I first worked with. He's amazing.
I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.