I've worked on shows where the lead actor doesn't know their lines, doesn't care, and it affects everybody - the crew, the director, the other actors. It's definitely a responsibility.
Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.
My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel, who was my first real acting teacher. Joan was also good friends with my friend Susie Landau Finch, who had first encouraged me to consider acting, so that's how I began studying.
Being on a set where the director has lost control is just sickening. No one goes the extra mile, there's a lot of eye-rolling... it just breeds inertia. If a director is in control, the crew follow their leader. But the second anyone senses the directors are not sure, people just swoop in.
I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.
If something touches me, I cry. That's it. I'm a bit raw, a bit rubbish, really. Often, a director will say to me, 'I don't think this is a scene where your character cries.' And all I can say is, good luck with that!
Not at all, I wanted to go into medicine. I took science in college. But my dad was a Producer - Director in Kannada films, and someone saw me, and one thing led to another.
Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
I must say, I am a 10,000-times better director because I am in therapy. I'm serious. I can understand more the actors. I can manipulate them more easily.
I think listening to the director is the number one strength an actor should have.
I worked as a writer, lead designer, and creative director in the game industry.
Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director.
In Hollywood there's no real material. They would send me stuff, but I hadn't even seen the director. If I don't see the director's eyes, I'm not going. I'm not even going to pack my bags.
As an author, you hope for a director and a cast that will make something wonderful out of your book.
I have gone to Albany constantly in my capacity as budget director, because I don't think the way the transit authority works with the City of New York is very appropriate.
As a writer, you have control of the words you put on the page. But once that manuscript leaves your hand, you give control to the reader. As a director, you are limited by everything: weather, budget, and egos.
I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can out of the text they're working with.
When a director you admire says that he wants to work with you, it's always a compliment, very good for your ego.
The director calmed me down and told me I was being too hard on myself. He went on to say that I wasn't quite as bad as I thought, but needed to tone things down a bit.
I don't think it's a director's job to peek behind the curtain too much.
You don't realize it, but often people are frightened of the director.
I'm just attracted to the action element of science fiction. It's great to sit in the editing room with the director and sound engineers and to create the feeling where your heart is racing and you're sitting at the edge of your seat and you find yourself holding your breath.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
In a weird way, when I was looking back, I didn't know I was going to be a director until I was.
Oh, well, in Los Angeles everybody is an actor, or a producer, or a writer, or a director, or an agent, or... So everybody understands the hours.
In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression.
Justin Theroux is the ideal team partner to have. He's a writer. He's a director.
Actors need to trust themselves. If you trust yourself, you can trust others and leave the director outside.
I will argue my points; I will have my opinions. But at the end of the day, it's the director's choice.
When Orson Welles was acting in 'Compulsion,' the director Richard Fleischer let him just take over and direct the courtroom scenes. To be able to see Welles - who knew more about directing than anyone - direct himself and the other actors, it was unbelievable and unforgettable.
When I was to come to Washington the first time as Music Director of the Boston Symphony, Mrs. Johnson phoned us to find out if they could give us a party and who we would like to meet.
It's not my job to try and alter the director's style - he's in charge, and I'll always give him my trust.
A music director cannot and should not be chosen on the basis of a first date. It is not so difficult to make a good impression with a single appearance, usually containing some of a conductor's party pieces, works they have performed successfully many times before.
A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.
Polanski is a great film director - although the much-acclaimed 'Chinatown' has a muddled script - but his true talent is to make fools of his friends.
With technology you can now be your own record company, director, producer, etc. If you have talent, you can display it on the Internet and the world will tell you their thoughts in the matter of seconds!
