I've actually been given a great gift. When I walk into an audition with a director, I'm carrying no baggage. They haven't seen me in anything, even though I've done nine films.
Jessica Chastain
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I have always cited the decision by director Stephen Frears to shoot 'Mrs. Henderson Presents' before my script of 'The Queen' as the reason for my taking the plunge as a playwright.
Peter Morgan
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When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.
Eli Roth
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When a film works, the director had a lot to do with that, but the director also didn't have a lot to do with that. There are so many moving parts. It's really about being open to how the river is flowing and trying to get on the river.
Mike Mills
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The majority of people know me as a dancer, but they don't also know that I'm a director, a songwriter and a producer.
Cris Judd
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My greatest strength as an actor is that I follow my director's brief completely. The film is always the director's visual baby.
John Abraham
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If I had not been successful as a director, then I'm sure I would still be telling stories. I would have continued on 16mm or found a different medium through which to tell them.
Pedro Almodovar
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In cinema, the leading player is the director.
Ben Kingsley
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I have no interest in directing. I'd be a bad director.
Michael Ritchie
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We have amazing stunt performers and in Miguel Sapochnik, a director who's so good at spending hours and hours and hours on every shot beforehand, so that he knows exactly what he wants when he gets to the battlefield on the day. We only shoot ten-hour days, so you have to pack a lot into those ten hours.
David Benioff
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The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized.
John Frankenheimer
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What happens is things come to you - director, script - and if you respond to it, it's because it's tapping into some part of what's inside you, and different roles tap into different parts.
Sean Penn
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I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.
Walter Hill
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Do you imagine Sergio Leone with a philosophy? Come on! He was a primitive of movies, a great director on set.
Luciano Vincenzoni
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When a subject pops into a director's head, you either fit in there somewhere, or you don't. An actor is only who he is. Especially as you get older, there's not as much of a range of potentially feasible parts.
Charlotte Rampling
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Everybody want famous, like me to be a famous director.
Andrew Lau
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One of the greatest compliments anyone could ever give a director is, 'Everybody was in the same show.' That's something I think about constantly.
Thomas Kail
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Whatever understanding I have of filmmaking is because of my stint as an assistant director on 'Gangs of Wasseypur.'
Vicky Kaushal
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To me, the director is the most important, rather than the story.
Ludivine Sagnier
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Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process.
Catherine McCormack
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I always choose my movie because of a director and a story and a, a character.
Melanie Laurent
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I've realized my best and worst critic is my director.
Nushrat Bharucha
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Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.
Tamra Davis
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There really isn't a dream role, but there's a dream situation where I could work with a director that I idolize. So, the idea of working with David Fincher or Paul Thomas Anderson or Wes Anderson or Scorsese or Spielberg or any of the guys I really idolize is a dream for me.
Logan Lerman
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