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Most of the films are only 60% taken, rest is a director's input.

Most of the great directors I've worked with - De Palma, Spike Lee - like rehearsals.

Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.

Most of the time I've worked with directors who write their own scripts. The story is more important to me than the part. The project of the film has always been more important to me.

Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director.

My father was a television director and I always knew I wanted to be in the industry but I had thought my role was behind the camera as opposed to in front.

Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.

My big break was becoming the spokesperson for Texas Instruments. Casting directors really started giving me a chance to read for projects.

My distinguishing talent is the ability to put people under the microscope, perhaps to go one or two layers farther down than some other directors.

My father was a director, and he used to always tell me, "You should be an actress." When I was 17, he gave me a job so that I'd be in the union.

My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while framing a better shot.

My favorite parts of work as an actor and a director are those unplanned mistakes that do happen, because it's like catching lightning in a bottle. It's the best part of what we do.

My first day on the set of 'John Adams', I was just supposed to fly to Virginia for a costume fitting. But the director figured, why not shoot it, too? So they threw me into a dress that didn't fit, gave me lines I hadn't seen, in a dialect I didn't know, and two screaming, arching infants.

My goal as an actor, as an up-and-coming actor in this business is to stay consistent with the work, you know, and if you do good work, and stay focused on the work, writers and directors will pay attention.

Movie making is really, it's a director's medium, it's not even so much an actor's medium.

Movies are certainly a director's medium, so getting the opportunity to work with really good directors is everything to me.

Mr. Cukor is a hard task-master, a fine director and he took me over the coals giving me the roughest time I have ever had. And I am eternally grateful.

Music is just one of the tools a director has with which to paint and I think it's one of the most effective.

My advice to women directors is just to make the best work possible.

My biggest advice for women writer/directors is to always be attempting to make work that avoids pandering to the conceptions that the industry has put in place for "women directors.

My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies.

My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.

My height can be a problem. A lot of directors and photographers are sometimes not happy because I'm pretty tall and especially if I work with short actors the difference can be pretty massive.

My husband is a director, and I understand what it takes to direct. It's a skill set where you have to be able to talk to actors and understand them, and I don't. It's a very different way of being in the world, and I much prefer writing and producing.

My ideal role would be the lead in a film with a director that I really appreciate and admire.

My husband's a director, so he understands what I do.

My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director.

My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, they're storytellers because they're directing where your focus is going to be as an audience.

My job as the director is to make that as authentic as I can and not to disturb the revelry.

My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.

My memorization skills aren't that great so I need help in that area. As far as everything else, I listen to the director. I'm someone who doesn't argue. I hit my marks and say the lines.

My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something you can phone in.

My main interest in being a director, and the most important thing to me, is that world with the actors.

My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers.

My philosophy is that to be a director you cannot be subject to anyone, even the head of the studio. I threatened to quit each time I didn't get my way, but no one ever let me walk out.

My scripts are always heavily noted. If I can take a director to one side and say, "Do you mind if we try this?," a few days before, that's usually a better way of doing it then on the day.

My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.

My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's terrible habit for an actor, but that's a good habit for director. So I became a director.

My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

My tutor was a film director on the side, and she introduced me to film. She then put me in one of her short films, and it came out of that. That's when I fell in love with the process of making a film. After that, I was about 15 and I was like, "This is what I've gotta do." So, I started taking acting lessons, and then I applied to college to do acting. I got an agent, and it all just happened.

Nancy has her vision and she's a formidable force to be reckoned with, and that's similar to most of the male directors I've worked with. The only difference is probably inbetween scenes, gossiping with Diane Keaton, Frances McDormand and Nancy Meyers about who's had Botox and who hasn't.

My whole family is very artistic - my uncles are all actors and theatre directors.

My very first news director said to me that it's better to be hated than to have viewers be neutral.

No comedy should be longer than 90 minutes. There's no such thing as a good long joke.

Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.

Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.

No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.

Nollywood is a genre, and not the entire Nigerian film industry. However none of the 'New wave' of directors in Nigeria would know what was possible without the Nollywood model, so I'm grateful to them for showing us that our stories are of interest to people other than Nigerians. I would describe myself as a filmmaker, period.

No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit

Normally, I'm a very controlling director. Directors are controlling. It's part of the job, but there's various degrees of it and the constructs I normally work on are very controlling constructs.