I have a lot of musician friends. I worked in radio as a music director, and I know everybody hears about the George Straits and the Garth Brooks and the Kenny Chesneys and all that, but for every major star, there are thousands who didn't quite make it.
Robert David Hall
MusicFriendsKnowDirectorRadio
It's not my job to try and alter the director's style - he's in charge, and I'll always give him my trust.
Ewan McGregor
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Theatre is like an actor's nectar, like how cinema is a director's medium.
Ali Fazal
TheatreCinemaActorDirectorLike
I had to get a job, and of course, the job was 'The Godfather.' That made me be something I didn't know I was going to be. I became a big-shot director.
Francis Ford Coppola
JobMeKnowDirectorGoingGet
I've tried to stay out of the frame more as a director.
Roger Michell
MoreDirectorFrameOutStayTried
Whenever anybody asked me, 'Who is your number one director to work with?' I would always say Tim Burton.
Ella Purnell
WorkMeSayDirectorAlwaysYour
I love working fast. I don't relish the director who wants to do 25 to 30 takes, or the actors who insist on doing 25 or 30 takes.
Alfred Molina
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An actor really suffers when the director isn't prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do it fast.
Carol Kane
TimeStartYouFastActorDirector
A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.
Robin Tunney
SuccessFailureDirectorShoulders
When a director shifts gears as often as does Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, the man behind the emotionally rich debut film 'Amores Perros,' you may wonder if he knows what he wants.
Elvis Mitchell
ManRichYouWonderDirectorMay
Pinchas Perry, the director of 'The Chicago 8,' offered me the role of the judge, and he did not know that, 35 years earlier, I'd played a judge in the theater production. So life has its own little twists and turns.
Philip Baker Hall
LifeMeJudgeKnowChicagoDirector
In general, a film's delay is disheartening for actors, but it's harder on the director and the producer who have been on the project for longer than anyone else. While actors move on to other projects, the film's makers don't.
Aditi Rao Hydari
Move OnProjectDirectorProducer
And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made.
Robert Towne
WorkFriendMeThinkWayDirector
I guess, as a director, you sort of take the script, and you find ways to interpret it.
Duncan Jones
YouFindDirectorTakeInterpret
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.
Joe Mantello
ChanceNeverDirectorRoomGetVery
Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.
Preston Sturges
MeEasyDirectorBecauseDirecting
Earlier in my career, I needed to be the writer, casting director, set designer, leading man, and producer. I've been eliminating a lot of those jobs. I'm an executive producer right now. I still get to pick the best screenplays.
Danny Meyer
BestManCareerNowRightDirector
To have a director's direct feedback is invaluable.
Masi Oka
FeedbackDirectorDirectInvaluable
I like to write, and I would love to be a screenwriter one day and a director.
Dylan Penn
LoveDayOne DayWriteDirector
I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.
Joe Eszterhas
PastDirectorPrimeHerWriterRead
Normally as a director, you do look at other films and things that are relevant. But with this film, it became impossible because I became so aware of the camera placement.
Peter Weir
ImpossibleCameraYouLookDirector
My mom and dad were actors when they were younger and had a horrible experience of it. My dad became a literary agent and my mom a casting director.
Daniel Radcliffe
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There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a pro.
Martin Scorsese
MeDirectorAlwaysWantedPartPro
As a director he was not that interested in Vader.
David Prowse
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