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“I'm just trying to find a good project. Work with a good director, someone I really admire. Find a good role.”

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“A good director has to be a captain - he has to work with a lot of people every day.”

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“Because I've made a film with such an amazing director as Tarantino, I'm much more conscious of working with good directors from now on, so that's what's important to me. I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.”

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Author:Melanie Laurent

“I feel like a good director provokes you to ask questions about your character, but doesn't answer them for you.”

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Author:Crystal Reed

“Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there.”

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Author:Stellan Skarsgard

“There's good directors and bad directors. Some of the critics are really conscientious and really try to do what they can popularize the work or to explain the work and so on. And then there's the critics who just wants to make a reputation by attacking. Those are the ones I'm not keen on.”

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Author:Peter Bogdanovich

“I think a good director can embrace any genre and it's the kind of thing where you always want to do something different. You always want to challenge yourself.”

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Author:David Ayer

“There are directors that I want to work with and that I admire. You can love a script, but if it doesn't have a good director, it won't be that.”

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Author:Jennifer Lawrence

“Rob [Reiner] is a teddy bear. He's hell delicious. He's a really good director. He's a great soul. In the movie business, I would call him a movie mom. The only person I hold in equal esteem is Clint Eastwood. Now I have worked with a lot of terrific directors, and I don't mean to be putting any of them below their own station, but these two, I relish working with them.”

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Author:Morgan Freeman

“That's the main thing, looking for interesting characters, good directors, and experiences where you're growing and learning.”

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Author:Nicholas Hoult

“I've worked with some very good directors and some very bad ones. I learned a great deal from both. From the bad, untalented people, you learn what not to do. And when you work with very highly talented people, you want to emulate them.”

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Author:Tommy Lee Jones

“I don't think I'd be a good director because people would ask me, you know, "What is it? What's going on here? Where should I put the camera?" Or, "What's my motivation?" And I would say, "Do whatever you want!"”

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Author:Christopher Walken

“I worked with Roger Moore on three episodes of The Saint. He is a lovely man, a good director, and was my favourite actor to work with.”

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Author:Shirley Eaton

“Think of anger as a muscle. The way you express anger isn't the way that I do, or you. If you have a good director, you will find that he's getting you to use an entirely different muscle that you never even knew you had - it's real hard and sore, then after a while it becomes normal. And you discover all these new muscles when you enter a new character - that's what a director does for you.”

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Author:Jane Fonda

“There are some scenes that you have to lose in order to win something at the end. A good director will keep pointing you that way, but it is also your job as an actor to understand that there are scenes that you do, particularly when you are the lead, where other people get to come in and steal and you have to let them. I understand that but a good director always reminds you where those moments are.”

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Author:George Clooney

“There are things that I would avoid, so I have the choice to say no, when I feel I'm repeating myself too much. But then there could be a reason to do that with a good director. So I think actors have to have a loose philosophy.”

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Author:Toby Jones

“I've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director.”

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Author:Laurie Metcalf

“I've worked with Jack Nicholson and Robert De Niro and Tom Hanks. I've worked with some really good directors: Woody Allen, Paul Schrader... My God, I've really worked with a lot of people. But I'm intimidated by them, and I'm always thinking, "Oh, my God, he's not going to like me, and I'm going to get fired."”

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Author:Kurt Fuller

“Matching character and actor is what a good director does.”

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Author:Bruno Dumont

“I think a good director casts a film so that the actors bring a lot to the table.”

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Author:Debbie Allen

“Really good director sometimes will kind of see what the actors are doing and then get in there. Because there's the realization that you have to find it a little bit and then kind of clump around and sniff it out.”

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Author:Ron Livingston

“There are times when you work with directors on set, and things are a bit rudderless, and those can be good directors.”

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Author:Grant Heslov

“Any good director creates a playground. That's what they do. They hire the right actor, open the door and let them play because stuff will happen, right then and there. The audience wants to believe that what's going on is happening for the first time, ever. That's what acting is. That's what good scene writing is.”

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Author:Martin Landau

“I like to be cast well and then I like to be left alone. And good directors, that's generally what they do when they hire you because you have something that's useful to the part, and then they leave you alone. The times that I've run into trouble is when, very rare actually, but you get hired and then there's some sort of makeover involved.”

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Author:Christopher Walken

“It's more fun to play a good character with a good director and good actors around you. That's what makes it fun, and the more variety, the better.”

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Author:Salma Hayek

“As the cinematographer is usually more visual than the director is and full cooperation is really the answer and to make a great film, you need a good director and you need a good cinematographer.”

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Author:Vilmos Zsigmond

“I like to work with talented people, I must say that. That's my weakness. I really like to work with good directors. That doesn't mean I don't like to work with starting up young directors, that's fun also.”

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Author:Vilmos Zsigmond

“I have been incredibly fortunate to be able to work with good directors and for me it's not really a plan each time I'm on a set with one of them; I think about what I can learn from them because I'm very aware that my filmmaking skills are very modest.”

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Author:Sacha Baron Cohen

“I think a lot of good directors listen to music while they're working. The songs just don't become a part of the film. They're replaced.”

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Author:Ben Folds

“I think to be a good director you have to be a good person and you have to care about people.”

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Author:Kristen Stewart

“There's a paraphrase about Orson Welles saying: "Great films are made by great directors and the rest are made by everyone else." I've been very lucky... before I start insulting the profession of directing, but I think a good director is everything and a bad director really is nothing at all.”

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Author:Colin Firth

“It's entirely to do with personality, I think. There are good directors who talk a lot, bad directors who talk a lot, and good directors who don't say much and vice-versa. It just depends on whether people respond to that personality and whether people have a willingness to do something for them.”

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Author:Colin Firth

“It's always the script first choosing roles. [Then] whoever else is attached. I never like to be the first person attached, because I don't really trust what's going on, unless there's a really good director.”

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Author:Christopher Mintz-Plasse

“I'm trying to avoid any more asshole roles, at least for a little bit. The main criteria for me when choosing a project is a good director. I just want to work with these guys that I admire because I do want to direct my own films one day, and I want to pick their brains to see what their process is like, and see what I can take from that.”

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Author:Dave Franco

“To seek out making films that are unique and insightful, boundary-pushing and genre-bending, and not films that fit into the neat, little boxes that people "want" (expect) women to be making. In some ways, I guess for me, any filmmaker should strive to be a good director first, regardless of their gender, race, sexual orientation etc.”

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Author:Rania Attieh

“There are some directors I should have worked with. I`d like to have worked with Robert Altman - I turned him down a couple of times when I was younger. My thing now is if it`s a good director I`ll never say no - I`m just gonna say yes from now on.”

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Author:Val Kilmer

“Movies are certainly a director's medium, so getting the opportunity to work with really good directors is everything to me.”

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Author:Clive Owen

“I depend on good editors and a good director.”

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Author:Indira Varma

“There are lots of good directors I would like to work with; I want to be inspired and challenged by them.”

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Author:Julian Ovenden

“I always used to associate good directors as being ones who are totally extreme and have an answer for everything and there are no loose ends.”

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Author:Chris Lowell

“Also a good director and good dialogue. That's very important because you're bringing the words to life. So it's very important for an actor to have good dialogue.”

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Author:Julia Garner

“It's incredibly easy as a director to be egotistical. Of course, it is because you have 200 people on set every day listening to your every word and whatever you say goes, and that can be slightly corrupting. And actually, to be a good director, you have to take ego out of it, because hopefully what you've done is surrounded yourself with brilliant people. Let them be brilliant and you just shepherd that and marshal that and hopefully guide it however you can, but definitely not to the extent that you're overbearing.”

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Author:Dan Mazer

“Having a good director is very important. It's crucial. When you do good work with a certain director, you want to work with them again, and hopefully vice versa.”

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Author:Giles Matthey

“I depend on good editors and a good director. It's up to the way they shoot it, the lighting and all that. I like how small you can be on TV.”

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Author:Indira Varma

“I've been fortunate to work with good directors who understand improvisation and understand the way comedians work. Luke Basan let me do my thing like do what you feel and take the character to another level. Quentin Tarrantino was more of an acting coach. He can teach you beats and then hell say go with it but give this feeling. So I've been fortunate to work with good, seasoned directors.”

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Author:Chris Tucker

“I'd love to do a Michel Gondry film. That would be ideal! I'd love to do an Almodovar film; you know, I think he's very, very talented. I don't care that people say he's pretentious. So what? He's a good director; he can be pretentious.”

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Author:William Moseley

“Snow Cake is a lovely film. Really proud of that. We shot it in 21 days. I thought Sigourney was amazing in it. And very, very accurate. I think there was some element that thought she had pushed it too far. But not at all when you do the amount of homework she had done and spent the amount of time she did with adult autistics. She was right on the money. And I think Marc Evans is a terrific director. He's a sweet, open, honest man and a really good director of actors.”

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Author:Alan Rickman

“More often than not, if you've got a good director and a good script you can't really go wrong.”

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Author:Douglas Booth

“I've turned down good directors before because I knew the part didn't speak to me and I've worked with less talented directors before because the part I had such passion for.”

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Author:Ethan Hawke

“I hadn't studied theatre and I hadn't studied actor training or anything, but I did have a sense of movement and composition, and what the final product would be like, but luckily I had friends who were good actors, who would help me get them, who would get themselves to the place where a good director should get them to build characters.”

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Author:Rob Urbinati

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