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Morris Weissman [on the phone, discussing casting for his movie]: "What about Claudette Colbert? She's British, isn't she? She sounds British. Is she, like, affected or is she British?

I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it.

What are they doing, examining last month's costs with a microscope when they should be surveying the horizon with a telescope? [Acerbic comment about directors of Brunner Mond, where he worked.]

One of the common themes you will read in interview after interview is the call to keep fighting for your vision. This is a message to women directors, producers, writers—anyone who wants to work in the business. Your voice counts. Your vision matters.

Unfortunately, the board of directors that the middle managers report to generally make them aggressive. Imagine being hired into a company and then being told that you have to ignore the emerging health and safety issues (This is illegal!) and not inform the workers that the system is known to be dangerous (This is illegal!). You have two options: To go to jail for illegal activities sometime in the future, or to lose your job now and have all your USA workplace rights removed for recognizing the illegal activities that your Directors want you to engage in. Welcome to the corporate America management team!

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.

Above all, a director has to be a good captain.

Actors rarely stay in touch with directors after they've filmed together. We go back to real life.

Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce.

A big thing for me is trusting the director, so I don't need to watch playback. I feel like the director is gonna tell me whether it's right or not.

A choreographer deals with the movement that you create, and with a creative director it's about the story, the stage, the lighting, the costuming, executing someone's idea, choosing how far to go or how little to go, and blending it so that you feel it, you're emotionally effected.

Acting doesn't exist in a vacuum. You need the director to have a set of eyes.

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.

Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. From Here to Eternity must have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann.

A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.

ADMIRABLY BOLD. There's something grand about the film's sincerity and the intensity of its emotions and something fresh and bold about the way director Gray uses the conventions of romantic melodrama.

A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.

A director on a film really sets the tone of how people go about things, so everybody is happy to be at work and everybody does their best.

Adrienne [ Shelly] had 100 per cent control over this movie [ Waitress] as a director. She didn't just write it, direct it and act in it, she was the creative force behind everything, from the jokes down to the expressions.

A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.

A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.

A director recommended me for the role on 'Soap.' They said, 'She plays heavy roles, murderesses and the like.' He said, 'On stage, she could be very very funny.

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

A director once said, when I was complaining about something or other, "I agree, it is terrible. The worst thing you can do to an actor is give him a job." That shut me up and broke off a big hunk of my actor's cynical armor.

A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.

A fantastic actor in a scene that's just closed off will be good. But when working with a director who knows little tricks - correct music, slowly pushing in - that stunning performance will somehow become even better. I've always seen it as a symbiotic relationship.

A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.

A film actor is just a victim of directors and editors.

A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.

A film is the director's medium. The theater is an actor's.

After directing movies, I respect any director in this world, because making a movie as a director is tons and tons of work.

After I saw a couple of pictures put out by my fellow comedy-directors, which seemed to have abandoned the fun in favor of the message, I wrote Sullivan's Travels to satisfy an urge to tell them that they were getting a little too deep-dish, to leave the preaching to the preachers.

A good actor's director, first of all, is prepared, so there's not an exorbitant amount of wasted footage.

A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.

A good director is very well prepared, and knows exactly how he's going to cut the film, so the shooting is as efficient as possible.

A good [film] director is talented, imaginative, and does his homework.

A good script and a good brief from the director is enough to let me know what is expected of me.

After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled: “She can't talk! She can't act! She's sensational!”

After you do a showcase for agency managers and casting directors and you get this folder and some people had a folder that was thick and some people had a folder that was thin. And there's no fairness to it because it's not a fair business.

A good director has to be a captain - he has to work with a lot of people every day.

All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that you have a script and it's very linear.

[Alfred] Hitchcock was very interested in the image on the screen.As is any good cinema director. That is the language they speak. It is not literature, it is images on screen.

All directors should have to act and all actors should have to direct, so that they can understand all these key things that come into play with whether you can meet your day.

All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.

[Alejandro González Iñárritu] went from Birdman to this - these are incredible ledges that he's stepping out on in making these films [The Revenant]. I think his only threat for best director is Room, to be honest.

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.

All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.

All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do, it's not very loud. That doesn't mean I don't like the movie.

All of the directors I work with have their own unique gifts. My particular segment deals with online dating. It's a very interesting take on it, and a great observation of what goes on there.