Top 1200 Directing Actors Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Directing is really my favorite thing to do, but if I never directed again, I'd be okay if all the work I did was good.

Every actor I think has got their own number of takes that they like, you know. Some actors like to go all day, you know on the one scene and some actors want to take two takes. I personally like four.

I keep saying this, but the most important part of directing is casting, and the rest of it is pretty easy.

The idea the actors are the most important people on a film set I think is very stupid. Actors are the most replaceable people there. There are literally millions of us. There's very few people that can operate a steady-cam. The numbers are a lot, lot fewer for that, you know?

It doesn't matter if you work with an Oscar winner or if you work with an unknown actor. There is always a collaboration between the director and the actors, and you always have to listen as the actors have to listen to you as a director.

I began my career as a recording artist, and eventually I started directing my own music videos.

Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.

To say directing was a long-stewing ambition doesn't cover it. If you cut me open, you'd see it.

There is so much I'd love to do in this industry. I'm honestly interested in directing even a little more so than acting.

I would say that working with Ridley Scott makes the process of directing much more terrifying.

Part of Washington keeping its promises is a focus on directing more dollars into our local classrooms.

Oddly enough, I find it quite engaging to be working with a female when I'm directing. It's kind of interesting.

Directing is like meeting a woman. You don't know her, but something strikes you, and then you just have to go into it.

Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.

I love acting and I still want to do it, but I've such an instinct for directing, it's something that comes naturally to me. It's why I'm here on this planet.

I love my situation as a spectator. The actors are only a little bit ahead of the audience. The audience discovers the episode when it's screened, but we actors only discover the episode when we get the script, two weeks ahead of shooting. Until then, we know nothing of the evolution of our characters.

I've literally pitched to every studio and network trying to get directing work. It's really hard.

There are so many factors that go into directing. It's honestly a logistical nightmare for a lead to direct themselves in an episode.

Directing a movie is the greatest job in the world. I could not be more envious of the guys who get to do it all the time.

With a group of people, a troupe of actors in the theater, you go out on tour, and you're like a traveling circus. It's very sociable, and there's a real community, and it's very intense, and then you may never see them again. That was very appealing. I mean, it wasn't consciously appealing, but I think a lot of actors like that.

I don't want to step on the DP's toes. That's the first lesson I learned when I started directing with other cinematographers.

I'd said no to directing 'Snowtown' a few times and was quite scared of it, but I saw a story there that was worth telling.

I have listened to tapes of myself interviewing people and mostly I try to be better at directing the conversation.

I have always believed that directing a film is like telling a story. You have to tell it well so that it is appreciated.

I only want to write. I don't care about directing really. I've tried it and it was fun, but it's not like I have to.

I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.

Depending on who's directing you, sometime it's heightened or more naturalistic, but generally you're trying to represent something truthful.

Some actors come to casting and ask me, "Didn't you see my previous roles?" We do not work with actors like this. Their previous roles do not matter; I need the actual work with an actor in this particular character that has been written in our script. What matters is flexibility, believability and efficiency of an actor.

Directly after Rock Hudson's death came the fears that gay writers and actors and directors would be denied jobs; who knew if they would live long enough to finish a feature film or television series? And would the unions force directors to give blood tests and ban actors who tested positive?

Whether I'm acting, writing, or directing, I want to tell the truth about human beings, especially my folk.

The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars. Sometimes just doesn't fit.

We live in a world of absolute immediacy. It is an interconnected, combustible world, where technology and many other actions have given nonstate actors a reach, into countries and societies, for both good and evil, that we have never seen before. So it isn't a matter of just state versus state challenges or conflict. The bigger problem is nonstate actors.

I stopped acting a long time ago and my primary career has been producing-directing film.

Period films to me are very often alienating to the audience. There's very often a formality. A staunchy quality to them that comes from the misenscene. It also comes from the performances of the actors, because they're acting Victorian which really means that they're just acting the way they've seen previous actors act Victorian.

There is always a collaboration between the director and the actors, and you always have to listen as the actors have to listen to you as a director. In the end, you as a director, of course, are the captain on the ship.

I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.

I wish I had seen some women directing before - that would have given me the idea of who I was.

I think with any movie, directing is more in the preparation. You just have to prepare for everything that's going to happen.

I discovered that my biggest passion was for directing, so in making opportunity for myself, I found what I like doing the best.

Coming out of 'Shrill,' depending on who's directing, they'll let you ad lib sometimes, you can pitch ideas if you have them.

I stand to learn more working as an actor with really talented people than I do by directing a feature.

I love that when you're writing your mind is sort of figuring things out on its own, without you directing it.

Whether I'm telling stories in songs or if directing is the next step, being a storyteller is what I like doing.

The biggest edge I live on is directing. That's the most scary, dangerous thing you can do in your life.

I only want to write. I don't care about directing, really. I've tried it, and it was fun, but it's not like I have to.

When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.

It's odd, how those things happen to actors. A thing where you think, "I have no idea how to do this," something will happen in your life comes up and you just get it. I don't know how you get it, but actors are pretty extraordinary, in that regard. I think it's fear that happens.

Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.

We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it.

I love a certain kind of acting style that I would call non-American, which tends to be more detail-oriented and less externalized. There's a kind of naturalism that I often find in non-American actors. I also find that quality in the American actors I work with, but I like to bring in those influences creatively.

They (food companies) are putting $36 billion into directing those choices. And their methods are very effective.

I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is.

I've learned that when I'm directing, I hate when people are always questioning everything and trying to give me directions.

Hollywood likes to put actors in boxes, and it likes to put Asian actors in really small boxes.

As a viewer, I liked screenwriter Park Jae-bum's writing and director Kim Hee-won's directing.

Stunt coordinating is a good training ground for directing because you have exposure to all the departments in film.

It might be different for people that are A-list actors, but a lot of us really look at what's offered to us and look for something that has some traction with other people. But, it's not like I read 100 scripts a week, and then pick and choose. Maybe some actors do. I certainly don't do that.

In the formative days of the Republic, the directing influence the Bible exercised upon the fathers of the Nation is conspicuously evident.

Listen, I like great actors. You can be a movie star without being a great actor - this has been proved several times - and I like my casts to have great actors. Acting is more important to me than being a star.

In a nutshell, directing 'The Gift' was all about understanding how the complex machine that is 'Game of Thrones' works.