But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.
Mel Smith
HopeDirectorUpBeingGivenUK
If the packaging is good - the actors, director and producer - then it will work, even if the product is not good.
Nushrat Bharucha
WorkGoodProductWillDirector
I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director.
Valeria Golino
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I majored in Chinese Studies. I'm probably the only director of chicken Indian zombie movies who can speak pretty good Mandarin.
Lloyd Kaufman
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A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
Billy Wilder
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It was great to watch Orson Welles, not only as an actor but as a director.
Max von Sydow
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There is an isolated experience to being a director. It's very communal because there's a crew, but it's only you. You're the one on the hook.
Noah Baumbach
ExperienceYouDirectorBeingCrew
There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
Salma Hayek
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I'm not one of these directors, so far, that wants to have a whole separate director's cut of these things. So far they've turned out to be kind of the length that they wanted to be.
Jay Roach
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I came up in the community center. I used to be physical director of the South Central Community Center in Chicago on 83rd. It's still there. It used to be around there when I was a kid.
Bernie Mac
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What a director should be doing is making it appear as though there was no script.
John Hughes
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I'm not a pyrotechnical director; I'm not good with all those innovative things. What I am interested in is how actors can touch the heads and hearts of an audience.
Richard Attenborough
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It doesn't matter if I have experienced actors alongside or novices. It doesn't matter if the director is one film old or a hundred. All I'm interested in is doing justice to the role.
Radha Ravi
JusticeDoingMatterOldDirector
Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel.
Jason Reitman
JobFeelDirectorDisappearJust
Your crew becomes your family and you trust the director and the other actors on the set, and it's a very safe place.
Aleksa Palladino
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I hooked up with director Jacques Audiard for this film called 'Rust & Bone' with Marion Cotillard. I loved that experience so much I'm truly sad that it's over!
Matthias Schoenaerts
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As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.
Marjane Satrapi
YouUnderstandChangesDirectorMake
Movies are a director's medium, and they end up getting less credit than actors. They get the flak if the movie doesn't do well, and the actor walks away with most of the credit if the film does well.
Ranbir Kapoor
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As a director, if you know what you want, then it's not scary.
Joseph Kosinski
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When 'The Pacific' came around, I had to audition the old-fashioned way. It was the casting director and then the producer and then another producer and another producer and then Spielberg and Hanks.
Joseph Mazzello
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Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.
Alan Cumming
StupidAestheticHelpYouDirector
I would like Albert Brooks to have received the Oscars for best actor, best director and best screenplay for 'Modern Romance.' I love that movie.
Andy Kindler
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I never feel like a smug or a smart-alec film director, and there are plenty of those around.
Martin McDonagh
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I think people probably think I self-start, but I don't... I'm an actor, and I like to be of use to the director. To be a muse.
Parker Posey
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