Quotes About Director

I know there are people who can direct sitting down away from it all at a video monitor. But I can't do that.

I am a fan of the monster and horror genre but that's not my style as a director.

The first work of the director is to set a mood so that the actor's work can take place, so that the actor can create. And in order to do that, you have to communicate, communicate with the actors. And direction is about communication on all levels.

I believe the director is the one that sets the mood and if you have this hysterical director it's a domino effect. I would work for him forever, for nothing. Don't tell my agent that.

During script narrations, if I feel the screenplay mood jumping abruptly, I tell the director, and they work on it.

There are so many effects and so many things that are done digitally now that it's so hard for the director to really control the process, because there are more and more experts that come in.

More than anything else, I love to act and leave the rest to my director.

'The Dance Scene' is basically the most amazing dance show in the world, and it follows me as a creative director. You see how I maintain that creativity.

The most amazing thing you can ask for as an actor from a director is that you're being seen, that the choices made are informed.

I think a director has to be a little in love with his leading actress so he will project her as the most beautiful woman in the world.

I think the most important thing for an actor is reading the script and trying to figure out if you can play that character well. The last thing on my mind is if the director made good movies previously. It's not my job to know if that director's last movie was any good - it's my job to know if I can play the role.

Being open to what's happening in front of you is the most important thing about being a director. To allow the magic to exist and to be light enough on your feet to harness it as it's happening. That's what makes cinema interesting.

Just to get the basic fundamentals and empathy - I think that's the most important thing to bring to it if you've acted in the past and are now a director: the empathy.

For me, the most important thing is the writing - and certainly the director. But if the writing isn't there, it doesn't matter who the director is!

When I work, obviously the material is the first and most important thing. Then the director and who I'll be working with. And then the location comes into it. Where is it shooting? Because I have a family that has to uproot to do that with me.

The director is the channel through which a motion picture reaches the screen.

If my role requires a certain kind of dialect, which I think I am not confident enough to do, I'd prefer a dubbing artist then. There shouldn't be a selfish motive, and it's always better to have a certain understanding between the director/producer and the actress.

Once again, the FBI director took the floor. It was almost certain, said he, that there would be a showdown on the Dakota ranch. He described the so-called cowgirls as fanatical subversives violently opposed to the American way of life. These women wanted bloodshed, he said. They had mocked a court order, had refused to negotiate, and were at that very moment pointing firearms, possibly of Communist origin, at government agents.

I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me.

Hollywood got into the act, with director Cecil B. DeMille helping erect literally thousands of granite monuments to the Ten Commandments across the nation as part of a promotional campaign for his blockbuster film of the same name.

Even Hollywood got into the act, with director Cecil B. DeMille helping erect literally thousands of granite monuments to the Ten Commandments across the nation as part of a promotional campaign for his blockbuster film of the same name.

A man with a beard - Suzanne guessed he was an assistant director - came toward her, speaking into a walktie-talkie. "Yep, she just got here," he said. "I'll show her to her trailer." He smiled at her. "I'm Ted," he said, "designed to make your life a more annoying place to be." Suzanne smiled back, bowed her wet head, and said, "Suzanne, designed to be annoyed." Ted laughed. "The we ought to get along great.

A man with a beard - Suzanne guessed he was an assistant director - came toward her, speaking into a walktie-talkie. "Yep, she just got here," he said. "I'll show her to her trailer." He smiled at her. "I'm Ted," he said, "designed to make your life a more annoying place to be." Suzanne smiled back, bowed her wet head, and said, "Suzanne, designed to be annoyed." Ted laughed. "Then we ought to get along great.

Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.