Top 1200 Theatre Directors Quotes & Sayings - Page 18
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Last updated on December 2, 2024.
With independent films, you again get to work with new directors and experiment too.
Most of the great directors I've worked with - De Palma, Spike Lee - like rehearsals.
I think the theatre is as essential to civilization as safe, pure water.
Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.
It is wrong if how we see women on TV is largely determined by male directors.
It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well.
Directors sometimes have good ideas that I wished I'd had, not on rewriting but simply on staging.
I wrote my first play when I was nine. It was performed at Hampstead Theatre.
I have no qualms approaching directors who I know will help me grow as an actor.
Most actors who direct do it because they've been directed by so many bad directors.
As players we don't want to be sitting on the touchline or watching the games in the directors' box. That is no fun.
I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.
As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors.
There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment.
I really just want to work with good directors and learn as much as I possibly can.
There are a lot of scripts that you can like, but rarely are there directors attached when you're in development with something and that's stressful.
Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.
I think actors make for very good directors, and I would like to do that one day.
Kenneth Branagh is one of the funniest directors on the set. You laugh a lot. He's very skillful.
I can't remember a single year of my life when I haven't made a piece of theatre.
I used to love auditioning. I loved going into the room and meeting casting directors.
I'm really fascinated by other directors' methods. I've done a lot of learning by observation.
I watch a lot of live music, and I love the theatre, especially musicals.
Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.
Most theatre people and composers are like research hounds.
I want to do theatre and film and direct my own things and develop.
I think the perspective that small-town directors bring to films is very different.
Not once in my life have I done theatre. Being on stage is not my thing.
In theatre, the main objective is to make the art happy, not the audience!
In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background
I am open to working with new directors as long as the script excites me.
I deal with guys in their 20s and early 30s who are presidents of companies, who are movie directors.
As far as women directors in India go, I think we should have more of them.
There are directors who, their direction is high, but then when you challenge it, it crumbles. They can't back up what they're asking.
Every manager feels a responsibility to his board of directors and the public and the players.
I've worked with a lot of great directors and often times they solicit your ideas.
A lot of directors tend to manipulate actors' vulnerability to get what they want, and that can work.
I consider it a stroke of luck that I got to work with one of my favourite directors, Mani Ratnam.
I was usually asked to do less than I was capable of by directors who had lost control of their movie.
It's good that Bollywood is changing and directors are trying out Pakistani singers as composers.
I was fascinated by the story of FW Murnau, one of the most famous directors in Germany, where I come from.
We fell in love with movies through directors. Very early on we knew that was what we wanted to do.
Creative directors can be egocentric, they say. I decide; they shout at people and harass. I don't want that.
My dream really is just to keep working in film and in theatre.
In theatre, you learn the story is more important than the actor.
I don't mean to be oily, but critics are very much part of the theatre.
With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.
My favorite movies are from directors that have a vision, like Wes Anderson or Tim Burton.
There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.
It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.
I know I don't go looking for directors. I always wonder why they chose me.
If mutual fund directors are independent, then I'm the lead character in the Bolshoi Ballet.
Basically, great directors know how to combine music with the scenes that they are working on.
Even a modicum of celebrity is hard to deal with. You see it with actors and directors all the time.
These days, it's perfectly normal to move between the theatre and television.
Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet.
I'm trying to learn things behind the camera and what a producer does and shadowing the directors.
Outside their country, Hungarian directors have had, from the critics at least, a friendly reception.
Ultimately when I throw myself behind a movie, I have to really believe in that directors vision.
