Top 1200 Directing Actors Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

People have a different idea of how movies are made than they really are. On a certain level, everyone throws ideas into the hopper. It's not like the actors are wind-up dolls that you push out onto the floor, play with, then put back in the box. You get people around you who you trust; the writer, the producer, the director and all the actors all contribute.

I like to work with actors that have varied experiences. But I don't choose them because of their experience, I choose them because of qualities I think would make an interesting character and to me there is no one way to direct actors, there is only one way to collaborate with one person.

I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years.

When I started in the profession, there were very visible actors who were Scottish, Welsh, or regional. Lots of working-class-hero leading actors; it was not fashionable to sound posh. Now, I'm middle-aged; it's fashionable to sound posh if you are the generation behind me.

I think there's a lot of mythos about what's required in acting. The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put forward the idea that they do all of this work because, you know, it's a post-De Niro world, when, largely, in fact, it's almost never true.

'Balls of Fury' was my first time directing, and that's a movie that I think parts of it are great.

I was very familiar with both actors, as well as Christina Hendricks and Bill Sage, Jimmi Simpson, Polly McIntosh, but the other main actors were new to me. And they were all terrific. Just amazing. Actually, Lowell Northrop optioned Savage Season from me, first book in the series, and I wrote a screenplay.

Directing is a unique endeavor where you are in charge of so many people. As a writer, it is sort of the opposite.

Drumming is like film directing. You build a framework for everyone to create something together.

I have been directing ads and videos for quite some time. And I wanted to direct films.

Directing pushes me out of my comfort zone, and I feel like a student again.

I miss directing. I see stories in images and music more so than in dialogue.

Whether it's acting, directing or writing, I want to be involved in the film industry for the rest of my life.

I've moved into directing as well as acting, and it has taught me never to take casting personally.

I've just seen that there is a really amazing perspective that we're missing by not having more women directing.

Actors are professionals who deal with people's emotions and their thoughts. So, working with this very intelligent, smart cast meant that sometimes I would only have to start speaking a word and these wonderful actors would immediately catch onto what I wanted them to portray, and how I wanted them to act.

Things may not be logical or fair, but when God is directing the events of our lives, they are right.

I was writing, directing, and editing my own films as a young kid with my parents' video camera.

I think people forget that a lot of directing is just real management of the size of a production.

Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me.

Between New York and L.A., and all of us who are actors, I feel like we're just one big, cast repertory company, all running back and forth between the coasts and between different shows. There is a wealth of great character actors, who show up, here and there, on different shows. I love the fact that we're allowed to do that.

Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days.

I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

I'm very happy to be directing though. It's a challenge, and it's a lot of fun for me to be on set.

Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

The dynamics of film directing and fashion design - in the ways that I've done it - were not dissimilar.

People who do not have funny in them are not funny when they read funny lines. Sorry. Just doesn't work that way. Seriously, this is the biggest rule of all. You live and die with your casting decisions. Your actors are the heart and soul of the whole thing. Without brilliant actors, you will not have a brilliant film.

British actors come at acting from a slightly different angle. Because a lot of the films are cast out there, they are so used to the angle from which the Americans, and certainly the young guys from L.A., are coming at it, that I think it's interesting for them to find these English actors who maybe approach acting from a different place.

I never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write.

I've always been interested in character-driven pieces, and my approach to directing is through acting.

I started to respect older actors when I was young and then contemporary actors later on. Then I learned respect for comedy. When I was first doing theatre, I thought of it as just a means to become Sarah Bernhardt or someone like that. But acting with young people has been a great learning experience.

As actors, we need public relations to campaign for our next possible role, and any media promoting our work seems positive in nature; but whether in theater or on a film set, a bad unprofessional photograph at the wrong angle may not be as flattering to some actors, and may be considered a harmful exposure.

I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing.

I've found a lot of the thinking in America is that a lot of people become actors to become famous. At least from my experience, I have a dozen or so British friends who are actors, and if you look at their body of work, and they'll go do theatre, and they'll go do this and this. They work, and they're always honing and trying to be better.

English actors feel vaguely apologetic for being there at all. American actors know that the most important thing is to get one take out of fifty that is great, and they'll go to any length to get it. The English are used to working within consistently small, low-budget things and think, I mustn't waste their time.

If I could really move my career much more into predominantly directing, I would jump at that.

It's like being the general of an army [directing a film]. You send people out to die.

I am choosy about my films, period - whether it's my father directing it or anybody else.

(Sometimes when) someone's directing for the first time, they're afraid to include everyone - they have to prove they're the director.

My directing style has changed over the years. I allow things to breathe a lot more.

Theatre has given me lot of opportunities such as directing monologues in 'Saat Teri Ekvees.'

I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.

Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man.

I like to express myself fully with my body, with my language, with my voice, and through directing.

There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.

No power on earth can ever get me back to directing a commercial film.

British actors come at acting from a slightly different angle. Because a lot of the films are cast out there, they are so used to the angle from which the Americans, and certainly the young guys from LA, are coming at it, that I think it's interesting for them to find these English actors who maybe approach acting from a different place.

Directing is to fill anyone with a yearning to get back at ten o'clock next morning.

I'm happy directing films. On television, the direction takes your entire life away.

The things that I'm interested in directing are fiction, because then you're not married to a particular reality.

A year after winning the Oscar, almost to the day, I was directing a dog food commercial.

Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.

An actor is supposed to emulate life. Instead, alas, many are imitating other actors. You don't fashion your knowledge of theatre or your approach to a role on the basis of what other actors have done. This kind of thinking is a great danger, especially in dealing with TV producers who frequently say things like, 'This is a Sean Connery type.'

Playing a drunk doesn't mean being a drunk, only bad actors try to be drunk. A real drunk tries to be sober, he wants another drink. How a character hides their feelings tells us who they are, no one shows their feelings except bad actors.

I strongly believe that producing and directing will not go together. If you want to be producer, don't direct.

Sean's a better person when he's directing. He becomes a queen when he's an actor. And he's so unhappy when he's acting.

I will not be doing any more sitcoms, unless it's my own or a movie or I'm directing.

I've been interested in the writing/directing thing and really fell into acting by complete accident.

The availability of roles for deaf actors has always been very limited. After 'Switched at Birth' began including deaf actors, a ripple effect has definitely been created in the industry. 'Switched at Birth' has made an impact for the better.

Acting is certainly my first love, but writing and directing has been on the 'to do' list for a long time.