I like it when an actor is secure enough to ask questions, and the director is secure enough not to be threatened by that.

You have to get it in your brain that you don’t belong to yourself as an actor, but that you belong to the director who creates the character.

You pick projects for the part, the director, and the script. I just want to do different, interesting stuff.

I don’t think it’s a director’s job to peek behind the curtain too much.

It’s an important thing to have a relationship with the director, and have it be a positive one.

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What I promise to my actors, and to my director, is to give them the salary and everything they need.

The director had come to Madrid to court me.

I want to try and be instinctive as a writer and director.

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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.

Larry Kasdan is a great director.

I depend on good editors and a good director.

A Writer is Actor, Creator, Director & Producer Of HIS Life. Ask ME anything.

Theater is a lot more interactive, more of a cohesive unit. With television, it can be a different director every episode.

It’s so hard to find a director who, when you look at their body of work, you like everything.

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I didn’t so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me.

The first movie I did was ‘Dan in Real Life,’ which was directed by Peter Hedges, the same director who did ‘The Odd Life of Timothy Green.’

You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.

With ‘Eagle of the Ninth,’ every shot was extremely planned and organized. The director was like, ‘Do this!’ And I say, ‘How was it?’ and he says, ‘Good.’ It was very odd. I would never...

Clint Eastwood is an extraordinary director because he knows the value of a buck. He knows where it will show on the screen.

You never want to be the director who dropped the ball, you know?

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I was seen dancing at school by a director, who asked me to be in a TV play. And it had a huge impact. So I think that’s what really started me off.

As a director, try to be humble and not to overdo it, not overcoverage and over-covering the scene.

My parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.

I was called the greatest director in Europe, but I was just a hard worker.

I always say that I’m not the director, I’m part of the team.

You either are a good director or you’re not.

I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director.

I’m not a director to make an action or horror film. That’s not for me.

I had become a film director because I thought I could express something in an artful way.

Let God direct your steps. The main reason why many steps fail is that people know God is an expert in directing steps, but they don’t want to give him the contract.

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If I feel the part is right, and I know that the producers and the director want me, I’d go for broke. Always.

The time to act is now! Somebody go get the Director.

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I didn’t write to become a director, which many people do.

I think that’s the key to being a director: to be able to get the shot and move on quickly.

Theater is very much the world I’d like to get back to, particularly in New York, both as an actor and director.

I really feel that I’m a much better director than I was an actor.

I don’t think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.

After all, at end of the day, when you’re breathing your last, it’s not your producer, director, or cast mates by your bedside; it’s your children. Keep that in mind.

The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.

An actor is just a part of a movie, but director – he is the movie.

If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.