Director Quotes
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Usually in TV... A TV director could be anything from a main grip to just a glorified cameraman, and sometimes a director can be the person who is hired last. It's very much a producer's medium.
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I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.
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I don't have a director. The audience directs me.
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I like to call myself the 'director of family and business affairs,' ... Your overall job is child care, housework -- and business.
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I love animals. With animals you never know what you're getting. Everybody says don't mess with animals and little kids in movies but those are the funniest things because you can't be in control. I like to lose control as a director.
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I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.
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Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. 'From Here to Eternity' must have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann.
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I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director.
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I love Ben Affleck so much. He's an amazing director.
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I suppose where I am sort of reflects the work I have chosen to do. Are there occasional frustrations because I can't work with a certain director because it's a big studio movie, and I don't have enough of a studio profile? The answer is yes. But generall... generally, I have the career I have chosen myself.
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Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a studio-approved director, your chances of ever making your own film again are zero. You make the films that the studio wants you to make.
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Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.
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That's how I am as a director - if somebody does a really good take, I can't help it, I'm not even aware of it. Actors really, really need positive reinforcement.
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I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.
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Usually in features, I'm the lead. I consider the director the captain, but I consider myself the first mate, and it's up to me to keep in contact with the heart of the crew.
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On the clothes front, I have a designer who sits with the director for each film to chalk out a look for me based on the script.
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Being an actor really, really strengthens me as a director. There's just a certain type of understanding that comes from having been there and knowing how much is really being asked of actors that helps me.
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.
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I'm such a fan of Daniel Waters, who wrote the script, and also Mark Waters, his brother, who directed. 'Vampire Academy' has, I think, an iconic director.
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I met my agent through a casting director here in Wilmington after I auditioned for a Disney movie.
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Sucking up to a director means you are unsure of your talents. I'm not.
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I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.
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I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director.
