Just being hired by a great director is complimentary.
Tom Skerritt

I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game.
Bob Balaban

George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go.
Richard Perle

The first work of the director is to set a mood so that the actor's work can take place, so that the actor can create. And in order to do that, you have to communicate, communicate with the actors. And direction is about communication on all levels.
William Friedkin

I was a bartender in New York and I overheard this girl saying she made $3000 doing a commercial. A kid at work told me, 'Hey, I know this director and he'd really like you!'. So I walked into this guy's office and was like 'I was thinking maybe I could make $3000' and he hired me for commercials, short films, like 15 jobs in a row.
Pauley Perrette

I will work with a director who has good material because at the end of the day, that's what counts.
Javier Bardem

I heard that the same thing occurred in a scene in Alien, where the creature pops out of the chest of a crewman. The other actors didn't know what was to happen; the director wanted to get true surprise.
Marvin Minsky

I was taken to one place by a director, and he bought me a lap dance.
Lexa Doig

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.
Joe Eszterhas

We need to make is to strengthen the position of the director of the CIA.
Bob Graham

I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.
Eric Bogosian

Clint Eastwood. Here's a guy who's been involved in so many movies, lots of them masterpieces, and now he's a director. I just like everything I know about him. He's very decisive, he makes up his mind real quick.
Bobby Farrelly

Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied.
Bruce Beresford

Do whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director.
Dennis Farina

In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very good reason - the director cut according to the script. So, if you ad libbed, you'd be off mike and off camera.
Harry Shearer

As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along.
Griffin Dunne

Obviously, if a director doesn't communicative a clear, relevant vision of the material, it will not succeed no matter how good the material.
Tom Skerritt

Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director.
Michael Tilson Thomas

On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all.
Griffin Dunne

I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director.
Jason Patric