In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression.
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If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me.
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I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director.
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Mel is a great director because he's not just a director, he's an actor, so he knows how to direct actors. I loved working with him. He's great as a director. He's so intelligent. He's generous. I really loved him.
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I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.
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It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors.
But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor.
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Indeed, the actor's lot is a much harder one than that of the director's, from one simple standpoint: The actor has to play the eight shows a week.
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I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor.
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If it's stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it's film, THE most important person is the director. The director says where the camera goes.
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If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work.
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The first work of the director is to set a mood so that the actor's work can take place, so that the actor can create. And in order to do that, you have to communicate, communicate with the actors. And direction is about communication on all levels.
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Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.
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I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor.
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It does make you a better director and a better actor.
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I'm becoming a frustrated director, I think, in an actor's body.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
quote by George Orwell
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The thing is, the studio then forget that you're an actor and that you can do other things, and so since they pay you for that, they don't want you to do anything else.
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Richard Marquand, on Jedi, was very much an actor's director.
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My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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