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If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing.
I thought I'd make a really great director because I'm an actor. Like, I thought I could really direct actors.
When I'm playing as an actor, I don't want to interfere at all with the director. I'm just an actor. I'm totally respectful.
I'm a writer and director. And the movie I've seen a million times is 'Coming Home,' directed by Hal Ashby and starring Jon Voight, Jane Fonda and Bruce Dern.
I was 25 when I was made director of marketing at 'Newsweek.' I was 29 when I was made chief executive officer of Kaplan Educational Centers. I was raised to be confident.
I think I have been stereotyped as an action director in Hollywood, so all I got were the action scripts.
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.
One guy records the voices, another guy times the storyboard, another guy times the sheets, one guy is the story editor. All these jobs should be covered by the director.
I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has.
In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum.
I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.
I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.
'Hanna' was nice. It was Saoirse Ronan's idea. Usually, the director casts the actor, but in this case, the actor cast the director.
I learn a lot as a director from acting in other people's films and just in general.
One of the jobs of a director is to ask questions. One of the jobs of the director is to stand in for the audience until they get there.
I get to be in a room with other actors, but I never, or very rarely, get the chance to be in a room with another director.
Every part I've done has been for one reason or another-money, or the part, or the director, or the location. I'd like to get one thing that's all of those combined.
When I'm on a picture, I have two bosses - the director and the producer. My co-star is not my boss.
I was a frustrated musician, frustrated designer, frustrated art director, frustrated novelist, right. I'd fail at all these different professions.
As a director, try to be humble and not to overdo it, not overcoverage and over-covering the scene.
A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.
In France, I have lots of opportunities. Maybe now I'll be offered films in America. It's the encounter, with the director and the story that counts.
I still recall how nervous I was when I went for the recording of ‘Guzarish'… When I reached the studio, all of them were there - Rahman, Aamir Khan, lyricist Prasoon Joshi and director A.R. Murugadoss.
I actually have a theater company called Strangemen & Co. I'm the artistic director and co-founder.
Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel.
I'm used to working with the director and producer, and that's my relationship. It's very simple.
I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.
The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.
I had served in the Republic of Korea in the early '80s while I was on active duty as a director of intelligence for U.S. forces Korea, and kind of followed developments on the peninsula ever since.
I almost became a music major, but somehow I was so enthralled with the camera and becoming a director that I stuck with film school and theatrics.
I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two.
I have no idea what makes a director believe in me that I can sell these kind of roles.
I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!
Interestingly, 'October Sky' is an anagram of 'Rocket Boys', the same letters just moved around. This was discovered by director Joe Johnston using an anagram program on his computer.
When I was 27, I won an honorable mention in a scriptwriting contest and got a television job as an assistant director.
J. Cole's 2014 'Forrest Hills Drive.' The album, artwork, and director of that album was a huge influence on the visuals for 'Homecoming King.'
When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.
I need to thank my director, producers, and artists as well crew members of all my projects.
I came to the cinema industry to become a director from the inspiration of Guru Dutt and Shantaram.
As an actor, my No. 1 focus was to be on the same page with the writer, director, and producers.
On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all.
I knew I wanted to be involved with theater or film in any way I could, either as a writer or director or actress.
I don't make my living writing; I make my living as a producer and as a director.
I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.
My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director.
The truth is, a director wins an Oscar for a writer's script and actors' performances.
I was working as a flight director on the Gemini IX mission, and it seemed almost overnight I was picking up the responsibilities for the Apollo Program.
When I was approached to remake 'Vinnaithandi Varuvaaya,' I felt that it was a good way to reach out to a wider audience, every director wants that.
I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.
I want to direct every now and then, but I don't want to be a director.
I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.
The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.
I have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.
Jason Reitman is an amazing director; he's really amazing with his actors and crew.
I wanted to be a director and comedian and my plan was to go to NYU. I wanted to be in UCB.
Every director has a sensibility and style, and what works is his originality and conviction.
My father Kamran Khan was a successful producer, director and actor in B-grade films.
I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.
The title 'Spirited Away' could refer to what Disney has done on a corporate level to the revered Japanese animation director Hayao Miyazaki's epic and marvelous new anime fantasy.
I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.
As a director, people are trusting you with their lives, with their stories.
I have worked with another first-time director who was not that open, and it was probably one of the worst experiences I ever had, so my antennas are really out.
A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.
My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.
I guess, as a director, you sort of take the script, and you find ways to interpret it.
I went to Cal Arts and AFI, and I worked on 'Bonfire Of The Vanities.' I got this grant from the Academy to be Brian De Palma's apprentice director. And it was such a harrowing, disillusioning, awful experience.
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