Top 1200 Directing Actors Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I can't tell you if one day I'll be standing up there with an Oscar or directing, but I am going to be the best human being I possibly can.

In a sense, all actors are character actors, because we're all playing different characters. But a lot of the time - and I don't know, because I'm not a writer - but writers a lot of times write second- and third-tier characters better than they write primary characters. I guess they're more fun.

Proper respect to others is the most prudent rule of directing the measure of reverence due to ourselves.

Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.

I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects.

Television is kind of restrictive in its directing, but it would be nice to get some chops doing TV.

I try and shoot as often as I can, I cross shoot. I have at least two cameras rolling at the same time. So I'll have two actors or two sets of actors at a time so everybody's basically on camera. So when they improvise we have everybody's coverage. And you can then go in the editing room and find the energy still stays there.

I loved teaching and directing choral activities at BYU, but nothing surpasses working with the MTC musicians.

I have a new respect for filmmakers, that's for sure, 'cause it's not easy. If I'm allowed to, I'll be directing for the rest of my life. I love the process.

I can't tell you if one day I'll be standing up there with an Oscar or directing, but I am going to be the best human being I possibly can

I was never interested in acting on film or in television, but I was always more inclined to writing and directing, and the exploration of character.

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

The good part is once I start directing, I can choose the songs I want to do. I'm just selective now when it comes to choreography.

I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together.

And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing.

My directing style is long takes. The longer take I can do, the more I can think of not doing it in cuts, the better.

I had taken a directing class in high school. Looking back on it now, I think it was all heading that way.

Directing is very close to choreography; you deal with space, time, emotions, lighting, making beautiful images.

I'm no Kenneth Branagh or Ben Stiller. I'm not that single-minded, 'I'm producing it, directing it, and starring in it' kind of person; that's not me.

I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.

Some of the best actors in the world are very exterior actors, Anthony Hopkins being one of them. He knows exactly how to turn his face to get a certain expression. He knows exactly what to do with eyes, and with his voice. It's very exterior.

Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.

Directing on a 90-day schedule, whether for a TV series or a feature film, it's crazy; it's a marathon.

I'm going to be writing and directing my own videos, and performing in them too, and I'm super-excited about it.

Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying. I've never been happier.

Concentration comes not from trying hard to focus on something, but from keeping your mind open and directing it at nothing.

When you're directing, I feel like I'm playing all the parts, without the make-up. I really get into the heads of the characters.

Working with George Miller was an education. It was eight college degrees in character development and directing all at once.

I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema, writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.

Directing a film requires a different set of skills. It is a difficult job, and I am happy being an actor.

Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.

Film just chews up actors like nobody's business, and I'm not particularly interested in being chewed up. I think the camera can only look at somebody's face for so long. I guess you have to accept the roles you think are right at the time. You can build a career, but these days there doesn't seem to be that much interest in people being actors.

I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.

What's interesting is, most of the people who are fans of the The Wire who black people or cops... most of the people in the industry are the crew: writers, actors and directors. And so they understand what it is that we do, so they think, "Wow, what a incredible group of amazing actors." It's funny, I think there are a couple of reasons why we have never gotten any nomination for anything except for writing.

Acting is a difficult profession, it really is. It's different than singing. With singing you may have one song and four people to record it - but they'll all do it differently and they'll all have that option. Whereas with actors there might be one part, and five hundred actors all want the same role - it's so much more competitive. It's an incredibly painful profession because you get so much rejection.

As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.

Directing is more like you're being a psychologist and you're kind of analyzing the situation and evaluating each person for their idiosyncrasies.

With directing, it's all out there, in the moment and in real-time. The pressure and all of the eyes are on you, and you've gotta do it. That is the place that made me nervous.

Start producing, some writing, directing is definitely what I want to do and I'll be doing a lot more in the future as well.

Honestly, as you can imagine, it really isn't all that fun directing yourself, running back and forth to the monitors to see if you're terrible or not.

In England, I've had a more balanced career directing and acting. It can be quite difficult to juggle the two careers.

I really love diving in, head first, with directing and not having to worry about hair, makeup or lines.

As everyone knows, comedy is the toughest emotion to handle. Everything about it is difficult - writing, directing and acting.

Throughout whatever I do, I always just say "Director" first. I am directing the storylines and I'm creating what it is.

The experience of directing yourself in a sex scene is, in a way, great. It's the fantasy we all have in our lives all the time.

James Franco, acting, teaching, directing, writing, producing, photography, soundtracks, editing - is there anything you can do?

Unlike most actors, I did not have a horrible childhood. Most actors have had miserable childhoods and they go into acting to hide from their real life. I had no problem playing in the woods all day. People just sort of left me alone. I think I'm gonna go back to those woods.

I never really think of acting and directing as being separate; they are just different expressions of the same thing.

Directing is literally what I've always wanted to do, ever since I was a kid. So I love the career I've built behind the camera.

Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.

This is one of the benefits, as well as one of the difficulties of directing a member of your family. You know where the buttons are. You can push them if you want.

It is not easy acting and directing yourself because you have to face the camera as well as look at the scene through the lens.

I used to pre-rehearse everything and then bring my pre-rehearsed performance to the set. Now, I'm learning to let it happen in the moment. American actors are much better at that than British actors. If I knew how to trust myself, I would have been much more relaxed. Maybe I would have less gray hairs today.

Your actors need to trust you as a director, but normally, I think you just need to have an open communication between the actors and the director. I think the director needs to really paint his or her vision to the cast and let them know the kind of mood that he or she is making. I think that's very important.

A big part of directing is being strong in certain circumstances and taking the gamble and hope you don't get fired.

You need to see yourself in what you direct, I think - directing is quite self-indulgent from that point of view.

The biggest challenge directing the final season of 'Game of Thrones' is just the importance of getting it right.

I'm no Kenneth Branagh or Ben Stiller. I'm not that single-minded: 'I'm producing it, directing it, and starring in it' kind of person; that's not me.

The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.

Often people going into directing want to learn as much as they possibly can about "technique." And I say the hell with that.