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.
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Directors are supposed to help the audience. Good directors don't direct actors.
quote by George C. Scott
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They offered me that film before I did Frida and I said, no, I'm not capable of directing. Then after seeing Julie direct, I was inspired by it. She motivated me to do it, because we don't have role models as woman for directors.
quote by Salma Hayek
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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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Yes, there are directors I admire, the mavericks. Altman. There are many good directors.
quote by Mark Rydell
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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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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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Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women.
quote by Pedro Almodovar
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Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.
quote by Kenneth Branagh
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My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, they're storytellers because they're directing where your focus is going to be as an audience.
quote by Dennis Quaid
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I'm thinking about directing, but I know it's a lot of work and I appreciate what directors do and I would like to be good at it. The opportunity has presented itself four to five times, and I usually said no because of the script.
quote by Angela Bassett
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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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I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.
quote by Gabrielle Union
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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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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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The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors.
quote by Stanley Tucci
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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.
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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If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew.
quote by Catherine Keener
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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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