#director

Directors say that you should get actors before they are recognized. They will be a pain or have an opinion. ↗

— Dianne Wiest

#directors #get #opinion #pain #recognized

I got an internship with the casting director of The Girl Next Door. I would hold the clipboard and help them in their casting sessions and get them lunch. ↗

— Olivia Wilde

#casting director #director #door #get #girl

The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#agent #crude #director #each #hollywood

Every actress has a line she'll draw, where she'll say, 'This I will do and this I won't.' For me, everything has to be important to the story and the director has to be able to tell me why. ↗

— Sheryl Lee

#actress #director #draw #every #everything

You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is. ↗

— Ernst Lubitsch

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For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident. ↗

— Sidney Lumet

#any #come #director #films #little

With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the special effects guy and the lighting technician: I'm all of that. So if it's good or bad, it's all up to me. ↗

— George R. R. Martin

#am #bad #book #director #effects

I love my lifestyle now, but at the end of nine months, you're toast. You are toast. It's like running a marathon. You can't think while you're doing it. Especially when different directors come in who are not part of the posse, the circle. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#come #different #directors #doing #end

The first thing I ask when I'm offered a part is, Who's the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles. ↗

— Swoosie Kurtz

#ask #director #first #first thing #i

I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#directors #fear #i #other #prepared