#director

How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#around #detail #director #does #every

I think drug movies free the director to make intense films. ↗

— Ray Liotta

#films #free #i #i think #intense

I've worked with some incredibly difficult directors but my understanding is that a lot of the best people are driven from a place of being extremely challenging and dark within their way. ↗

— Josh Lucas

#best #challenging #dark #difficult #directors

My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's terrible habit for an actor, but that's a good habit for director. So I became a director. ↗

— David Mamet

#actor #became #correct #director #good

There's been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn't have, but on the negative side, financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can't count the ways a director's vision is compromised. ↗

— Lili Taylor

#academy awards #awards #been #compromised #count

When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great musician. When he heard me, he said 'Are you sure you're Ellis's son?' ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#band #because #director #ellis #excited

Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process. ↗

— Catherine McCormack

#director #doing #exactly #get #involved

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

#called #casting #casting director #come #cool

When I decided I wanted to be an actor, I said I wanted to work with quality actors and directors. ↗

— Puff Daddy

#decided #directors #i #quality #said

A lot of times passion projects or films are difficult to make because they don't have proven directors attached to them. ↗

— David Duchovny

#because #difficult #directors #films #lot