Directors Quotes - Page 25

Since signing with Universal, I have been working closely with Gary Ross, the director, producer and screenwriter. We have spent many hours on the phone, and I've been sending him information and items that have been useful to the writing process.

Working with a great director is wonderful for an actor because it means that you're not forced to take the advice of an idiot.

When I worked on Altar Boys, they wanted to see us having fun. The four of us would have fun on set and steal each other's lines, and mess with the director.

The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate.

I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

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.

Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.

Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't

Oh, well, in Los Angeles everybody is an actor, or a producer, or a writer, or a director, or an agent, or... So everybody understands the hours.

A lot of really good directors have a killer in them, as if they'd do anything to get that image. But that comes with the terrain and I don't mind it.

Actors wait tables, directors work at video stores.

I see what's behind everything the director wants to do.

I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor.

I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors.

It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.

Some call me director, producer, filmmaker. I prefer to call myself pube-king.

Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director.

I'm not intimidated by other actors at all - or directors. I don't care who they are. But I am intimidated by writers. I hold them in the highest esteem.

So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies.

The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie.

First, speaking for myself, I don't want to ever be in a position where I'm telling other directors how to make movies, because I don't think it's any of my business.

Directors never direct me. They just let me loose.

I love when a director says, "I don't know."

Dodge v. Ford still stands for the legal principal that managers and directors have a legal duty to put the shareholders' interests above all others and no legal authority to serve any other interests - what has come to be known as "the best interests of the corporation" principal.