Directors are supposed to help the audience. Good directors don't direct actors.
quote by George C. Scott
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Somehow I got to be one of five or six actors that the directors would use as guinea pigs at this directing colloquium, where people pay to listen to and watch the directors direct.
quote by Beth Henley
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Yes, there are directors I admire, the mavericks. Altman. There are many good directors.
quote by Mark Rydell
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But on this show, it's a good question because in the 35 shows that we've done now, I've really made a consistent effort to really shadow the directors because in many ways they have to be more prepared than feature directors.
quote by Anthony Michael Hall
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I do like to work with young directors because it's such a difficult business that I think after directors have been around a while sometimes, not always, but sometimes their passion gets siphoned off because they get hurt.
quote by Ellen Burstyn
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Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.
quote by Todd Solondz
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Directors, like actors, get typecast.
quote by John Landis
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The director's who want to be innovative use the DVD as a tool to see what people have done in the past and you have other people who will actually take from better directors and that makes them better directors.
quote by Jerry Bruckheimer
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I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.
quote by Gabrielle Union
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I want to work with great directors. I want to work on good material with good actors. I've probably done 20 movies at this point and a lot of independents. It's been an incredible ride and I love it and I'm just going to keep going and doing what I'm doing.
quote by Famke Janssen
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Directors say that you should get actors before they are recognized. They will be a pain or have an opinion.
quote by Dianne Wiest
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I never had any classes or went to theatre school like a lot of actors, so all of my training has been on stage with different directors. That was a pretty good school room.
quote by James Denton
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Great Directors
directors: Bernardo Bertolucci, Catherine Breillat, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Todd Haynes, Angela Ismailos, Richard Linklater, Ken Loach, David Lynch, John Sayles, Agnès Varda
from Great Directors (2009)
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When actors give their input, it can be very ego-driven, and directors are scared of that.
quote by Michael Pitt
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A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.
The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors.
quote by Stanley Tucci
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I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors.
quote by Jonathan Frakes
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In a collaborative environment directors hire actors because they want their input, not just their bodies.
quote by Kelly Lynch
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Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.
quote by Ben Stiller
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I don't like actors who try to talk directors into making their part bigger and that's really lame.
quote by Franka Potente
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Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
quote by Thornton Wilder
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