Quotes About Director

The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white.

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

Over de Russische Biblioteek van van Oorschot): Het altijd rake feestgeschenk voor aftandse directeuren die afscheid nemen.

The EIC was, as one of its directors admitted, 'an empire within an empire', with the power to make war or peace anywhere in the East.

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 think Polanski's an amazing director.

If you think that you can hide what your interests are, what your prurient interests are, what your noble interests are, what your fascinations are, if you think you can hide that in your work as a film director, you're nuts.

A 1945 film called Japan: Know Your Enemy, directed by Frank Capra (who directed several popular motion pictures during the 1930s and '40s, including Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and It's a Wonderful Life)

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

Cast PURPOSE as the lead in your movie and you will help God, your Director, produce a masterwork.

When How Green Was My Valley finally wrapped, I thought John Ford was a walking god.

The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.

In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.

I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.

I will work with a director who has good material because at the end of the day, that's what counts.

In comics, the writer is also the director in a certain way. So if this were a film, you wouldn't tell the cinematographer to make a good fight scene while you go and get a cup of coffee.

I think a good director is a good listener.

Peter Bogdanovich is a good friend.

I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movies.

It's more fun to play a good character with a good director and good actors around you. That's what makes it fun, and the more variety, the better.

More often than not, if you've got a good director and a good script you can't really go wrong.

To me Polanski is one of the greats in terms of psychological horror. It's just hard to top him because he's so damn good at it.

In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very good reason - the director cut according to the script. So, if you ad libbed, you'd be off mike and off camera.

I look for the character to be something interesting, the script to have a good story and be original, and a director that I admire.