Quotes About Director

Gosh, I'd like to direct Our Town on stage.

I don't really care where I work, actually, because you know making a movie is like living in movie world. There's such a secluded world, and the director is the king ruling the country, and everybody's building this little town to speak in symbolism.

Once you turn on the camera, making a movie is making a movie. I don't care if it's $9 million dollars or $50 million dollars. You have bigger toys, bigger set, actors who are better paid, but once you turn on the camera, it's director and performance, and I don't find a big difference.

Scale is not just something that a director wants so as to play with all the toys. Scale also lends verisimilitude, to put together a real world.

That, for me, is the only real legacy: the idea that one has left a lingering trace in people's memories. In the end, that's all a director can hope to do.

If any director offers my role to some other actor just because he can't trace me, then I think the character was never meant for me.

Actors have seven tracks going in their minds: They've got all the research they've done for the part, then they have whatever the director asked them to do, then they've got what the departments like special effects need them to do.

A director, I forget who, told me that it takes 30 years to make an actor. And I believe that. You have to learn your craft, learn your trade - and also you have to live a life and experience things.

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.

I had seen Shawn Levy's movie just before, Just Married. And I think when I met him too, he's very smart and together and he's got it together.

The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was told I was an actor

It's not my job to try and alter the director's style - he's in charge, and I'll always give him my trust.

I found it to be more challenging to be in a huge effects movie, because a lot of the things aren't there.You have to trust the director and react to nothing.

Your crew becomes your family and you trust the director and the other actors on the set, and it's a very safe place.

When you trust your director completely, then you can relax, be spontaneous, be malleable.

Nobody makes movies like Oliver Stone.

My Mom is a ballet director, so I had this idea in me that classical training is the best foundation for anything you do, so I wanted to get a classical background and voice.

Considering that I'm British and I talk the way I do, I love it when a director takes a chance on me.

I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.

I'd like to think every director I've worked with has fallen in love with me, I know Dorothy Arzner did.

I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them.

I actually love Scorsese comedies. He's an underrated comedy director. I think his comedies are some of the best comedies ever made.

It's been clear for some time that FBI Director Comey has lost the confidence of Republicans, Democrats, and broader institutions, and his removal as FBI Director was probably overdue.

Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process.