#director

You need the words, you need the script, you need the material, you need the commitment, you need the passion, it's like we depend on writers, we depend on producers, directors depend on us and once things are in the divine order as they happen. ↗

— Nia Long

#depend #directors #divine #happen #like

In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#controls #director #every #expression #move

I'd love to see more women working as directors and producers. ↗

— Ida Lupino

#i #love #more #producers #see

In a collaborative environment directors hire actors because they want their input, not just their bodies. ↗

— Kelly Lynch

#bodies #collaborative #directors #environment #hire

Of course I'm schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#course #director #heart #i #i think

You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you more miserable and get a good take. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#director #get #good #insecure #job

You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern. ↗

— Ann Macbeth

#always #begin #commercial #commercial world #directors

I choose movies, I never choose roles. I look at the script. I look at the director. I look at the other actors - and then the role. ↗

— Elle Macpherson

#director #i #look #movies #never

Directors work 10 times harder than anyone else. Get paid a quarter. ↗

— William H. Macy

#directors #else #get #harder #paid

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