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

Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
Fanny Brice

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

But things such as 'Harry Potter', all I can do is shape my character, seek the director's approval on that, and basically take it from there. Professor Flitwick in 'Harry Potter', I kind of defined how I saw him from reading the book, and luckily that matched up with the director's vision.
Warwick Davis

The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money.
Tom Hooper

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

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

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

The Dead was cool, It's a great horror story. I went to the casting director of this movie and talked to him, then they called my agent and had me come in and read for it and they wanted to use me.
Matthew McGrory

As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director.
Joan Chen

I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation.
Dustin Hoffman