Quotes About Director

In Punjabi film industry I am given full freedom to change the lines according to the situation. Directors believe in my gut instinct.

I can't imagine a situation where, as FBI director, I would be giving a press conference on an uncharged individual, much less talking in detail about it.

I believe that as a writer and a director, you're only providing the skeleton of a character, and you're hiring actors to fill it out.

Directing doesn't appeal to me. I'm much more in the world of ideas. My husband is a director, and I understand what it takes to direct. It's a skill set where you have to be able to talk to actors and understand them, and I don't. It's a very different way of being in the world, and I much prefer writing and producing.

Kenneth Branagh is one of the funniest directors on the set. You laugh a lot. He's very skillful.

I have regretted saying no' to a director who wanted to bank on my dancing skills for an amazing role in the past.

My memorization skills aren't that great so I need help in that area. As far as everything else, I listen to the director. I'm someone who doesn't argue. I hit my marks and say the lines.

In a rehearsal room, your real resource as an actor aren't the things around you; your resources are your imagination and your director and the other actors. In those close quarters, your imagination and your skills are what you turn to.

I think my fighting skills have certainly been improved by working with Peter Jackson.

I'm a character-driven director, and I tend to fall in love with the characters in my movies and TV shows.

When we choose only love as the director of our mind we can experience the power and miracle of love.

I'm a film rat. I love being in front of a camera. I love being behind a camera. I love talking to the director. I love talking film.

I love Ben Affleck so much. He's an amazing director.

I'll always be attached to telly in one way or another, whether it's a character or producer or director, I just love the medium.

I love Hitchcock movies. I took a Hitchcock class in college, so I saw all his movies. I wrote papers on his movies.

I love those films where I feel the director's confidence - where he doesn't need to overdo it with the shots and the cuts.

I love working with Lars [von Trier]! I've worked with him three times. I did the narration of Dogville and Manderlay.

Stanley Kubrick made Shelly Duvall go crazy during 'The Shining.' It's like one of the best performances ever. Maybe he shouldn't have gone that far, but I love that movie.

The thing I love about acting is that it's got nothing to do with me; it's about bringing forth a director's vision. It's like a release. I'm glad it's come back into my life.

I love Sam Mendes. He's a fantastic director.

People either know Alan Rudolph and love every single one of his films or they don't know him at all.

In May 1976 Arne-Sayles wrote a letter to the director of the museum, asking to borrow the head so that he could perform a magical rite of his own invention, transfer the seer's knowledge to himself and so usher in a New Age for Mankind. To Arne-Sayles's astonishment, the director refused.

The writer's job is to write the screenplay and keep the reader turning pages, not to determine how a scene or sequence should be filmed. You don't have to tell the director and cinematographer and film editor how to do their jobs. Your job is to write the screenplay, to give them enough visual information so they can bring those words on the page into life, in full 'sound and fury,' revealing strong visual and dramatic action, with clarity, insight, and emotion.

You know, making an animated movie is such a lonesome thing. You mostly don't see your fellow actors or anything. You go into your booth, you record all your dialogue. It's very much an issue of trust. You leave it all up to the director.