“My musical director, Mark Cherry, is the most wonderful person who ever lived on God's good green Earth. He's my director, he does the arrangements. Really, he does everything - including certain janitorial chores!” PersonsDoeEarthCertainWonderfulDirectorsMarkGreenMusicalIncludingArrangementsCherriesChoresGreen EarthWonderful Person Author:Brett Somers
“There's something mystical and wonderful about being in the room with the actual live performer s on stage that works. In film, it doesn't work so you're dependent on a great director to keep the thing moving along.” FilmMovingRoomsWonderfulStageDirectorsDependentPerformersMystical Author:Marshall Brickman
“Working with a great director is wonderful for an actor because it means that you're not forced to take the advice of an idiot.” MeanActorsWonderfulAdviceDirectorsIdiot Author:Klaus Kinski
“One of the wonderful things about being an actor is that every director is different.” DifferentActorsWonderfulDirectorsWonderful Things Author:Jane Fonda
“David Fincher is probably the best comprehensive director in terms of being a manger of a process that must drive forward. He has such confident command of cinema language and visual language and script and performance. He knows more about f-stops than any cameraman, he knows more about lighting than any gaffer, he is a wonderful writer, and he can give you a good line reading. Under pressure, he is the kind of guy who you will just dive in with and trust and follow because his vision is so intense.” KnowsGivingKindGuyReadingLanguageProcessTermLinesVisionWonderfulDirectorsPerformancesPressureScriptsIntenseCommandCinemaVisualsComprehensiveLightingUnder PressureCameraman Author:Edward Norton
“I always felt that the telefilm directors made wonderful films, which are even better than the big screen movies, but never got enough opportunities to showcase their talents on the big screens.” MadeEnoughBigsFilmOpportunityFeltWonderfulTalentDirectorsScreensBig ScreenShowcase Author:Arin Paul
“I think when you work with really wonderful directors who have a really strong vision, it lets you as an artist set the tone for your own career.” ThinkingArtistStrongVisionCareersWonderfulDirectorsTone Author:Sarah Gadon
“That excites me, working with really excellent people, be it wonderful directors or actors or cinematographers and especially writers. My work life is going to a set and having these great experiences and coming home shifted by them.” PeopleHomeLife IsActorsWonderfulDirectorsExcellentComing HomeGreat ExperiencesCinematographers Author:Deborah Kara Unger
“I think that what's important as a director is to give your actors the feeling that they're protected, the feeling of confidence, the feeling that if they make mistakes, then as a director, you'll know how to help them. If you're able to convey that, then the actors will give you wonderful performances. As well as the author, you have to write scenes that give the actors the opportunity to show what they're capable of.” IfsThinkingKnowsGivingWritingWellsImportantHelpingShowsFeelingsAbleActorsOpportunityMistakeKnow HowWonderfulSceneDirectorsCapablePerformancesMaking MistakesProtectedWhat's Important Author:Michael Haneke
“It's such an intimate experience, being a director, artistically. It's deep and it's satisfying and it's wonderful, on so many levels, but it's also really scary.” LevelsWonderfulDirectorsScaryIntimateSatisfyingReally Scary Author:Russell Crowe
“I think television has become such an interesting place for characters and for incredible storytelling. Half of what I watch are television shows that I've become obsessed with. I just think that it's opened up so much, to be such an interesting and creative medium, and so many wonderful directors and actors are moving to television because it is a great medium for telling stories and for creating a character over a long period of time.” ThinkingLongCharacterStoriesShowsMovingActorsInterestingHalfWatchesCreativeWonderfulTelevisionPeriodsDirectorsCreatingIncrediblesStorytellingMediumsObsessedTelevision ShowsTelling StoriesLong Periods Of TimeInteresting Places Author:Elijah Wood
“Michael's Powell art director was a painter and they had a wonderful friendship and artistic understanding. Michael himself, in the way he designed his own house, it was always with bright colours. Very un-English!” WayArtHouseUnderstandingWonderfulDirectorsPainterArtisticColourWonderful FriendshipArt Director Author:Thelma Schoonmaker
“So, most of it was done over the phone. But one of the first things I did as a director, because it's one of the first things you should do, even though most don't, is to ask good actors who they think is right for the part. They know better than anybody. But without missing a beat Maggie said Pauline Collins. I didn't know Pauline because I hadn't seen Shirley Valentine, but then I saw this thing that she did with Woody Allen [You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger], in which she was wonderful as a psychic, and I said to her on the phone: "The dialogue seemed improvised."” ThinkingKnowsShouldFirstsSaidDoneActorsAsksDarkSawsWonderfulMissingDirectorsBeatsPhonesStrangerDialogueTallValentinePsychicsWoodyGood ActorsMaggie Author:Dustin Hoffman
“I have a great respect for actors like Clint Eastwood, who's a wonderful director. I think two pictures that I directed were not successful, so I decided not to make any more.” ThinkingTwoActorsSuccessfulWonderfulDirectorsDecidedGreat Respect Author:Kirk Douglas
“I made the transition to directing documentaries with the great help of my Co-Director on The World According to Sesame Street, Linda Hawkins Costigan. She was a gracious teacher, and a wonderful collaborator.” WorldMadeHelpingTeacherWonderfulStreetsDirectorsTransitionDocumentariesGraciousCollaboratorsSesame Street Author:Linda Goldstein Knowlton
“I love Ron Howard, he's a wonderful director, incredibly prepared. But I have to criticize my performance in that movie. It all took place in one day. My character was having a bad day, so she's having a bad day throughout the whole movie. But this was a comedy, and I think I was too serious, too dense. Yes, I think that describes my failure there.” ThinkingWholeCharacterComedyWonderfulSeriousOne DayDirectorsPerformancesPreparedCriticizeBad DayDenseHaving A Bad Day Author:Glenn Close
“I think it's very important to recognize talent in all facets of filmmaking. Making a movie is such a lengthy and intense experience, so it's wonderful to honour actors, directors, producers and all crew members who put so much hard work and passion into a project.” ThinkingImportantHardPassionActorsWonderfulTalentHard WorkDirectorsMembersProjectsIntenseProducersHonourFilmmakingCrewFacetsLengthy Author:Eva Green
“Miloš Forman is a great director; Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.” WonderfulDirectorsBrooks Author:Twyla Tharp
“I've worked with some absolutely wonderful directors who bring out the best in me and I know I can trust, and then I've had the opposite experience, too. I've had both experiences, and obviously one is good and one is not good. When they're great, it's good. When they're not great, it's not so great.” KnowsI CanWonderfulDirectorsOpposites Author:Kari Matchett
“There's another aspect about the Seventies. Blazing Saddles, as wonderful as it was, sort of hurt the Western. It made such fun of them, that you almost couldn't take them seriously from that point on. That's why only Westerns that had the stink of Watergate or Vietnam could be taken seriously. There were so few Westerns made since then, from the Eighties on, that the few directors who did were so pleased with themselves and so happy to have the opportunity that they got lost in visuals, they got lost in the vistas and the pretty scenery.” MadeOpportunityLostFunHurtTakenWonderfulDirectorsAspectWesternVisualsVietnamSeventiesEightySceneryStinkBlazingVistasSaddlesWatergate Author:Quentin Tarantino
“A lot of people love Tarantino’s films because they’re spectacular, they’re beautiful, they’re wonderful. He hires the best group of artists - not only actors, but everyone around: best photographers, best set designers, best production designers, costume designers. A lot of people love his films because they’re bloody, they’re gory, they’re savage. But very few people see that he’s a very political director.” PeopleBeautifulFilmPoliticalArtistActorsWonderfulGroupsDirectorsPhotographerProductionsDesignerBloodySavagesCostumesSpectacularTarantino Author:Demian Bichir
“Steve Zaillian is just the sweetest. A very, very wonderful and interesting director.” InterestingWonderfulDirectorsSweetest Author:Peter Jacobson
“Exodus is a very large organization. My board of directors is supportive of me as the president of Exodus and are very much involved in my decision-making and those types of things. They're a wonderful and balanced group of people and I'm grateful for their support. Within the membership we have 270 or so members within the network of Exodus whether that's a local member ministry, a counselor or one of our members of our church association.” PeoplePresidentChurchDecisionSupportWonderfulGroupsTypeInvolvedDirectorsMembersOrganizationGratefulLocalsBoardsDecision MakingAssociationBalancedMinistrySupportiveMembershipCounselorBoard Of DirectorsExodus Author:Alan Chambers
“The directors were often really nice and I was well behaved, so I would just sit there in rehearsal. That allowed me to see the process - not just the result, the red carpet, all of the wonderful, fun things that happen afterwards - the nuts and bolts, the nitty-gritty, "Let's try to build this character from the page," tech rehearsals.” TryingWellsCharacterHappensFunProcessResultsNiceWonderfulDirectorsPagesRedNutsCarpetRehearsalReally NiceBoltsRed CarpetFun ThingsNuts And Bolts Author:Condola Rashad
“Any film that you see is never just the director. If it's a film that you love, it's not so easy to say, "Oh it's directed by this person - that means everything that person directs is going be wonderful."” IfsMeanPersonsFilmEasyWonderfulDirectors Author:Vin Diesel