I don't need a director who's 'good with actors.'...A master manipulator is heaven..
Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven stories..
I don’t want to be an editor! I don’t want to direct; I’d be a horrible director. I don’t want to write - I have a “story by” credit on one film I di….
You risk working with this director, you risk making this movie, you risk working with another actor you don't know. It makes your heart beat faster.….
A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should..
I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain genre conventions. I'd l….
Getting the role in '300' saved me. I'd been out of work for 11 months after 'The Brothers Grimm.' Once the film came out and didn't do so well, the ….
I was not born a size 2. I'm not skinny, period. I'm not willing to sleep with the director or step on somebody else's neck to get the job..
When you have the Chief of Staff of the Republican National Committee and the political director of the Romney campaign, and their two companies get ….
I am sure I am one of 2000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires..
I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out..
And there was a very famous man called Michael Powell, who probably is the greatest director all round, except possibly a couple of men..
I think Jesse Eisenberg is such a great writer. He was a great director and really tough..
I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' a….
A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being..
I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director..
The best director is the one you don't see..
I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss..
So I started to learn Russian and I was one of those probably way too eager, annoying young actor kids who was trying to change all my lines to Russi….
Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director..
My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, ….