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Larry Kasdan is a great director.
Rob Hardy is such a great director.
Just being hired by a great director is complimentary.
You have to have a great director to make a great movie.
I would love to work with Shane Meadows - great director.
Working with a great director is like getting a master class in acting.
A great director is someone who makes you feel like you're moving forward.
I don't think you can be a great director without knowing a lot about editing.
When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.
Peter Jackson is a wonderful man. He's a great director. He's found his niche in life.
The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.
There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
If you have a smaller role, but if you work with a great director, they make it unforgettable.
I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.
Alexander Gonzalez Inarritu is a great director. He's the one I first worked with. He's amazing.
Any great director is also someone who is incredibly intelligent about whom they hire around them.
I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.
Sometimes a great director will do a bad job and an okay director will do a great job. You never know.
I grew as an actress, and I feel I gained a lot, whenever I have worked with any great director in the past.
Do you imagine Sergio Leone with a philosophy? Come on! He was a primitive of movies, a great director on set.
I thought I'd make a really great director because I'm an actor. Like, I thought I could really direct actors.
David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.
There's a heresy which is perpetuated by film school that to be a great director you have to write your own stuff.
It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.
I'm not a great director or an auteur; I'm an ensemble director. I do think I can get wonderful performances out of actors.
I don't want people saying, 'Should we get a female director?' I want to hear, 'Should we get a great director for this movie?'
I was too dumb to know Opie was going to grow up to be a great Director, if so, boy, I would certainly have become his best friend.
You can start with a great director and great actors and have a great script - and it still just doesn't work. It's kind of a mystery how that happens.
A great director or leader knows his people, creates a great team, and then makes a great movie that can influence millions more than the readers of his column.
I've always thought Ed Burns was a profoundly underrated actor. He's a great director, obviously. A great director/writer. But I think he's a stunning actor, too.
I think today there are too many directors taking themselves seriously; the only one capable of saying anything really new and interesting is Luis Bunuel. He's a very great director.
As for Tenacious D, of course it could work as a full length movie; all it requires is a great writer and great director with an ability to think outside of conventional film comedy.
I don't see how it's a risky thing to take a great part with a great director and a great script. That, to me, is not really a dangerous, risky proposition. It's actually a really good choice.
Getting the right script that will work at the BO and relate to the audience is what matters. You also need a great director to bring the script to the screen in a form you envisioned it to be.
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.
Warren Beatty is a great director. I wish Warren would direct another film right now, because I'd love to do another film with Warren. I think that 'Dick Tracy' is an outstanding film in its own right.
If you have a script that's not great, if you have a great director, you can make a great movie, but if you have a great script with a director who's not good, never are you going to have a good movie.
My favorite movie out of the old movies was 'Escape to Witch Mountain.' We were working with horses and bears, and when you have a great friend like Ike and a great director... it was a great experience.
'Aashiq' is a romantic film, even though my character is a rather aggressive guy. You could even call it an intense romance. And working with Indra Kumar has been an excellent experience. He is a great director.
There was a time when I desperately wanted to be part of a Yash Chopra film, not because he was a great director, but because I was an outsider and I wanted that validation of being accepted in the film industry.
It must have been fascinating for Bono to have Johnny Cash do a cover of his song, and hear how he translates the words that he has used. And it would be fascinating to see a great director do his take on my work.
Mel is a great director because he's not just a director, he's an actor, so he knows how to direct actors. I loved working with him. He's great as a director. He's so intelligent. He's generous. I really loved him.
There are people who expect me to look the way I do on-screen, where I have a great director of photography and fantastic lighting. I'm sorry to disappoint people, but I don't look like that all the time - no actress does.
Peter Brook's 'Midsummer Night's Dream,' I remember seeing. That was pretty early on. And suddenly, I realized how theatrical Shakespeare is, how alive, how wonderful it is when it's opened up by a great director and a great company.
David Mamet we all know is a great screenplay writer and playwright and a great director. If you like him, you like him. If you hate him, you really hate him. He's someone who's into controversy, you know what I mean? That's David Mamet.
I think that the 'Bourne Trilogy,' it's definitely redefined the genre and took it to a new level. It was really great to be part of that experience. It is a very smart movie and a very smart script, great director, and great, you know, fellow actors.
Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
If you ever ask me what my all-time dream character is, my answer will be Mia Tansen, the great composer-musician in Hindustani classical music. And ideally, the film should be directed by a person like Bhansali who is a great director and has a marvellous sense of classical music.
I've definitely had a bunch of action scripts sent to me, but again I'm a stickler for directors. If it's, like, an action flick with a great director, then it's like, 'Oh let's look at this thing,' but if it's just like a shoot-em'-up with a first time director, I don't know if that's the trajectory I want to take with what I'm doing.
I did this one movie with a great director named Wayne Kramer. It was 'Crossing Over,' and Harrison Ford, Ashley Judd and Ray Liotta were in it. I was one of the leads, and I thought this was it. It got shelved for two years, and then it was in theaters maybe a week. After that, I adopted a philosophy of, 'Hope for the best, expect the worst.'