Quotes About Director

When it comes to writing musicals, you write the best piece you can. Then, its destiny is in the hands of the actors and the director.

I don't care about names attached to the script. That doesn't matter to me. All things being equal, I would like to work with a good script with a good director, and the part I play is of less important than those two factors.

I don't watch many films. I just make sure my directors are really good. I will work even with a debut director, but the one-hour narration of the script should be mind-blowing.

I filmed my first narrative feature in 2006, a story set in Rwanda called 'Munyurangabo.'

She's got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.

Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby, you can be the director of the opponent's fate.

Scores climb with titles, from the bottom of the corporate ladder upward toward middle management. Middle managers stand out, with the highest EQ scores in the workforce. But up beyond middle management, there is a steep downward trend in EQ scores. For the titles of director and above, scores descend faster than a snowboarder on a black diamond. CEOs, on average, have the lowest EQ scores in the workplace.

Però tu parli delle persone come se non fosse stata una donna a partorirle, ma il direttore di un giornale.

The Bishop remained silent for a moment; then he turned abruptly to the director of the hospital.

faces were familiar: CIA director Irene Kennedy, who had recruited him as a kid;

The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes I'm the woman.

Luis Bunuel made great movies.

Il Destino, che è un regista alla ricerca di facili effetti, piuttosto di sacrificare una battuta sicura, preferisce sacrificare la logica degli eventi. Per questo il nostro pianeta è squinternato ma divertente.

Why did I want to become a director? I just had an early interest. My uncle was an actor in a local community theatre, and he ultimately persuaded me and a buddy of mine to come to that theatre, and we went to meet girls, and that turned into interested in kind of behind-the-scenes things, and from that point on, I was focused.

My uncle is a martial artist, and in the early '80s, he made a kung fu flick with director Charlie Ahearn.

'Crash' came from personal experience. I saw things inside me from living in L.A. that made me uncomfortable. I saw horrible things in people and saw terrible things in myself. I saw a black director completely humiliated, but the three people around me just thought it was funny. 'No,' I said, 'that is selling your soul.'

I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.

If I wasn't a writer/director, I would be an investigative journalist. There's something about being an undercover journalist. I mean, that's freakin' cool!

Whether it's t-shirt and jeans or full monster suit, I'm still an actor underneath it all, and a good director is going to know that.

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.

Tim Burton is underrated. I loved Big Fish, loved that movie, think it's the best movie of the year, hands down. Really impressed with that.

Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore.

A lot of nepotism that exists, actually, exists outside this industry because in this industry, behind the camera a director's son becomes a director and a producer's son becomes a producer and that is still understandable that they are carrying their legacy but for actors, it is very very different.

Being an actor really, really strengthens me as a director. There's just a certain type of understanding that comes from having been there and knowing how much is really being asked of actors that helps me.