Director Quotes
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I've been director of the center since 1983, and our clients will continue to participate in activities to help them get out of their homes and back into the community. It is important the individuals have contact with others with the same problems and can learn to coordinate activities.
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It's an important thing to have a relationship with the director, and have it be a positive one.
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One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.
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Obviously I would love to work with all these great directors like the Coen Brothers, Tarantino. Robert Rodriguez is a dream director of mine.
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That is a big turn-on for me, a director who knows what he's doing and what he wants, and knows when he's gotten what he wants.
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I'd like to make movies as a producer and a director.
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Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.
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Any director who comes into a revival owes a great deal to the original director. If I know the backbone works, it gives me, as a director, much more freedom to bring something new to it or try something different.
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I just adored Peter Medak, the director. He's such a character, but he was so much fun. Some directors come in and they truly get angry about things.Peter was still in a fantastic mood. He's a delightful person. He threw a big party at the end of the pilot, which was so sweet. And his wife is an opera singer. He's just a very warm, crazy beautiful individual.
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I came in on this movie after there had been a director and I came in after Tom Courtenay had talked to Ron Harwood about making a movie. So, you know Tom and Albert Finney had been friends since the beginning of their career as they became stars around the same time - Tom always reminds me that Albert was first with Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and then Tom with The Long Distance Runner.
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I don't think anyone can really make up their mind and say, Now I'm going to be a director.
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I feel fine, I don't care who the director is. All you have to do is know what your doing - all of us - everybody in the business - that's all you ask anyone - you know your job, I know mine, let's go do it.
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The difference between being an actor and a director is simple. The director has to hide his panic; the actor doesn't.
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I try to offer as much as I can to the director so he has as much to work with as possible to create the character that, really, he wants to create in a sense.
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I have to be strong about my own tastes because I think that's what the director's job is.
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A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
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The smartest thing a director can do is surround himself with really good people.
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My husband's a director, so he understands what I do.
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If I were to be cast as Cyrano or a Connecticut prep-school teacher or a gay boutique owner, it would only happen if some director I had worked with in the past said, 'Why don't we give Rispoli a shot at it?'
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If I have to wear a hat as a producer to do that, then I'm willing to do that. An actor's, producer's and director's point-of-view is all the same to me, as long as the story's being told.
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An actor gets to take a nap, but the director is working hard from dawn till midnight. I'm kind of lazy.
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I got involved through the director of the show Top Chef, he's a director of films in Mexico; I worked with him before. I watched the show in English -many times for many years - and I always loved it. As soon as I heard about having an opportunity to showcase Mexico in a different way, to show a different side of Mexico, that is not violent, that has beautiful colors and delicious food... I didn't think about it twice.
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I was mid-sentence when the casting director said, "Listen, kid. You should not be an actress. You are not pretty enough. You should go back to wherever you came from and you should go to school. You don't have it." She was very blunt - I honestly think that she thought she was doing me a favor.
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The showrunner relationship in television is what the director relationship in film, there's really no more important relationship.
