In the final scene of Power, the Supreme Court justices appear as a striking abstraction: Nine scowling masks line up in a row on top of a giant podium. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes speaks the majority opinion: 'Water power, the right to conver...
With directors, some have a kind of in-built ability to just know how to work with actors and get the best out of actors, and some don't have a clue about acting. I think it'd be a good idea if directors put themselves in front of the camera, or even...
I don't follow anything that's said about him much, but the Uwe Boll that I know is just a really cool guy. He's just a really quiet, kind and passionate filmmaker who really believes in what he's doing. Like any director that an actor wants to work ...
As a director, you're a bit of a dictator. But I feel that you're a better director if you're open to other people's ideas. It means that it's tougher: you have to be in a choosing process; you have to put the ego aside. As long as everybody's aiming...
I have been waiting around to get the right script and the right director. For example, in the past, if a Hollywood director came to me with a script and wanted me to play a character, and she was a stereotypical Asian woman who gets into a fight and...
First assistant director: I understand she [Norma Desmond] First assistant director: was a terror to work with. Cecil B. DeMille: Only toward the end. You know, a dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.
I don't think about the gender thing very much. But when I speak at schools, I've had female students say to me afterwards, "I never envisioned myself being a director, since I've never seen women do it." But after seeing me, they can picture themsel...
I'm an actor; I'm not a director.
Castes never meant that much to me.
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.
With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.
I was always cast doing something athletic. I can't do a cartwheel.
People aren't paying to see the Kevin McHale show, they're paying to see the cast of 'Glee.'
I had never watched a law show prior to being cast on The Practice.
Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.
The only thing is we didn't have the supporting cast.
He was also very clear that the decision to cast me as Cora was all Michael's.
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
Simultaneously, the movie business now experiments with a colorblind approach to casting.
