Directors Quotes - Page 42

I've never played a Dane in a movie. I've had offers to be in Danish movies, including for some good directors, but I either had a job at the time or, when I was available, the movie just didn't happen. Hopefully someday I'll do one.

I love rehearsing, but a lot of directors don't, and some actors don't.

The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.

I rely on my directors, a lot. I love being directed.

I cherish each director that I have. I want to be maneuvered out of my comfort zones. I don't have the time to prepare.

Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.

There are some directors I should have worked with. I`d like to have worked with Robert Altman - I turned him down a couple of times when I was younger. My thing now is if it`s a good director I`ll never say no - I`m just gonna say yes from now on.

The thing is, I think as a director or a writer or whatever, you have to have a vision. And you have to be maybe sometimes too early, somewhere.

I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.

Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors.

I would be a terrible director, I could never write anything. One of my great strengths is that I know all of my weaknesses.

I don’t want to be an editor! I don’t want to direct; I’d be a horrible director. I don’t want to write - I have a “story by” credit on one film I did. And I don’t want to edit at all.

Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.

I worked for a lot of directors.

Directors are denied a great pleasure, which is that of being on stage.

As a director, it's my job to provoke, and when people decided 'The Room' be called a phenomenon, or whatever you call it, it's fine with me.

As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic.

I'm not a famous director yet, and I'm not into fame. I like to just work. As a director, as an actor, whatever people consider me is fine with me.

As a director and an actor, it is very difficult to say "this person was better than another person." I judge by chemistry of the actors but it is difficult being a judge. I will never bash any of the actors.

One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what one has experienced and understood about the human condition as it relates to the role one has been hired to portray.

Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.

Certain directors are known for a certain kind of beauty; it becomes their signature.

I wanted to work on a cable show and with a writer/director because that's a much more fulfilling and freeing experience, as an actor.

The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.

I've wanted to make movies for so long. I learned most of what I know from director commentaries and behind the scenes featurettes and criterions.