A Quote by D. W. Griffith

Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.

D. W. Griffith

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D. W. Griffith
American - Director
January 22, 1875 - July 23, 1948

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.

Tom Hanks

Earlier, actors had a lot of power in their hands. And now, it has gone in the hands of the directors and writers, and that is how it should be. They are the visionaries, and we are the doers.

Bhumi Pednekar

It's dangerous for one actor to advise another one, especially when you're not in charge. On the set, I'm never gonna tell another person, "Here's what I think you should do." That's a discussion they should only have with the writers, producers, and directors.

David Koechner

As actors, we have the opportunity to work with many directors. Directors only work with themselves and other actors. They never know what it is like to work with another director. So that relationship that one has with a director is entirely always the king.

Tom Hardy

I think directors should at least take acting lessons to see what's going on. And I think all actors should direct to see what a director has to go through.

Penny Marshall

Porgy is...an interesting example of what can be done by talent in spite of a bad setup. With a libretto that should never have been accepted on a subject that should never have been chosen, a man who should never have attempted it has written a work that has a considerable power.

George Gershwin

I don't believe that all actors should end up being directors.

Rebecca Hall

The government should take a decision on whether to allow Pakistani actors in India or not, but I think directors and producers will themselves not cast Pakistani actors seeing the kind of opposition the country is witnessing against them.

Mahima Chaudhry

Directors say that you should get actors before they are recognized. They will be a pain in the...or have an opinion.

Dianne Wiest

Directors say that you should get actors before they are recognized. They will be a pain or have an opinion.

Dianne Wiest

I should see a board of directors who should vote on who I should date.

Debbie Reynolds

Lord, if I thought you were listening, I'd pray for this above all: that any church set up in your name should remain poor, and powerless, and modest. That it should wield no authority except that of love. That it should never cast anyone out. That it should own no property and make no laws. That it should not condemn, but only forgive.

Philip Pullman

I think that for a lot of actors - especially American actors - to get line readings and to be told and have your director literally act out the part for you is sort of discouraging in a way. It's a very Eastern European thing to do - a lot of directors that I worked with in Russia did that as well. And, I never took that as an insult, as many actors tend to do. To me, I think it's just offering a certain energy - offering their flavor - and, instead of trying to sort of decode and communicate it to you, they just show you their flavor of what it should be.

Jon Bernthal

People should be shrouded in mystery. Especially actors. No, hang on, maybe actors should be blown up.

Michael Gambon

A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.

Eva Green

In the first place, then, men should guard against the beginning of change, and in the second place they should not rely upon the political devices of which I have already spoken invented only to deceive the people, for they are proved by experience to be useless.

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