If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.
If I'm a director and I read a script and I say yeah I really want to do this, I would never walk away because the deal wasn't very good - that I wasn't getting paid very much or that the chances that I would see anything on the back end were remote because of the financial waterfall and the way it's structured. I would never use that as a reason not to do something.
Gotta watch out for directors.
I like working as a director most.
Snoop Scorsese, that's my director name.
And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration.
The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.
I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.
I didn't really know what I wanted to do, and then I got this call from a casting director in Los Angeles. She remembered me from something years before, and she called my mom wanting me to audition for this thing.
My husband's a director, so he understands what I do.
Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.
To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.
The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra.
The movie "Ed Wood," about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for "Stargate."
And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made.
When I decided I wanted to be an actor, I said I wanted to work with quality actors and directors.
I deal with guys in their 20s and early 30s who are presidents of companies, who are movie directors.
After Star Trek, I was with the top agencies, but producers and directors did not know what to do with me.
Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women.
I would not have made any of my films or written scripts such as Taxi Driver had it not been for Ingmar Bergman, What he has left is a legacy greater than any other director.... I think the extraordinary thing that Bergman will be remembered for, other than his body of work, was that he probably did more than anyone to make cinema a medium of personal and introspective value.
I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors.
Granted, the writers, directors, producers, and that community make a great deal of money. But they might be choosing to do a whole lot of other things for the living they make.
