Quotes About Director

If you understand the importance of developing a relationship with the director and making that director see that you're the best technical adviser and resource in the world on your subject, you'll be invited on set as a respected and integral part of the process.

I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game.

If I am looking at my work as an actor after having directed, I'm able to look at things in a much more technical way. There's no question about that.

On a very small scale, I kind of understand why the directors that I work with do certain things. I don't consider myself an incredible director. I'm not ready to do movies by any means. But, I feel like I can be a better actress now that I've been on the other side and kind of understand the process and more of the technical aspects of it.

You can't act for the editing. You have to leave that to him. So you just go in and do the scene the way you think is right or whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director.

It can be insulting to an actor when the director comes out, and they have no notes on the performance, and all they care about is that the camera has to do this one technical thing.

I'm not a normal director. You can't look at me that way. What's kept me alive is my technical skill at doing other things.

I have no ambition to be a technical director or TV pundit.

I think I could have worked as a technical director. But in this role, you can't attend training or say anything for fear it won't suit the coach, directors, or media. I don't think I want a job like that.

Technically, you can learn everything on the set as an assistant director, and rather quickly.

Padam Kumar is a technically sound director, very contemporary.

Farah ma'am is so technically strong. She is such a good director and one of the most fun directors.

I liked Rajamouli's 'Eega.' He is a great technician, and I would be happy to get a chance to work with him.

I think that you can't make a movie without a script. But you also can't make movies without actors. You also can't make movies without technicians. And there has to be just one person in charge of everybody, and to me that one person is the director.

Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique.

The core to what makes Fincher really interesting - all the technique and all that, that is not in the center even if it's a big big part - what is in the center is the characters, and he really is interested in that.

Finding where to put the camera is probably the most important thing you have to learn when you're a young director, and it's something that's a mixture of instinct and technique.

If you want to keep on being relevant as a director, I think you have to embrace the times. And with the times come technologies and formats.

I made my debut in 2004 as a fresh faced teenager in a small role in director Kamal's Manjupoloru Penkutty.'

In acting, you have a writer, a director, a character - you're working through being another person - and the irony I always tell people is when I acted early on as a teenager, it actually kept me out of trouble.

My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.

Sometimes a director is making three films. Perhaps he is shooting a film in Madras and a film in Bombay and he can't leave Madras as some shooting has to be done, so he directs by telephone. The shooting takes place. On schedule.

I come from theater, so I'm used to the hierarchy of an actor is just on the ladder, and above that is a director, and above that is a producer, and above that is a writer. But on a television show or film, the whole call sheet thing and being No. 1 on a call sheet, people look to you and almost expect you to exercise this power for good or bad.

When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.