Producers and directors think they have the power, but what they think of as the weakest link, the actor, is all-powerful.
The director respects what they've hired you for and chosen you for: to do the part and respect what you're doing.
A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it.
Ultimately, making movies, if you don't have a big star, it's hard to do. Or if it's not a star director.
There's a lot of other movies I like, but I don't even pay attention to directors to tell you the truth.
Television is certainly a writers-led medium. They're the ones who are there, they're the ones that are conferencing or whatever, with directors coming and going.
You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life.
You try to work with the director and your fellow actors to get somewhere, but other people are the judge of whether you hit that note right.
How can you have a director that doesn't go to work with the crew every day and talk to them?
I always want to do something I haven't done before and get to work with other actors, writers, or directors that I want to work with.
I want to work with a director who becomes my brother, my father, for two months. You give yourself over to that person.
I learn a lot from every director that I work with. I sit on set and watch them, every one.
The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra.
Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration.
How promising today's generation is. They can whip out their cellular phones like sheep, instantly take a million digital photos of their cat and then just delete them. But I'd like to see these kids try to artfully use a traditional film camera or m...
[about Tyler splicing frames of pornography into family films] Narrator: So when the snooty cat, and the courageous dog, with the celebrity voices meet for the first time in reel three, that's when you'll catch a flash of Tyler's contribution to the ...
A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension... A myth, in this way of thinking, is not an untruth but a way of reaching a profound truth.
If you watch the evening news, Dr. Kissinger is very often brought on to sort of be the statesman of his age and to reflect dispassionately on world events. And so a film challenging his legacy, a film that assesses charges that are quite grave again...
Now, more then ever, we have the ability to make films for almost nothing and that's broken down all barriers of entry. I think it's a new golden age of film-making. With that, there needs to be the ability to recoup investment dollars, people need t...
I'm excited about how books work in a digital age. When you read a book, unlike a film, you are decoding symbols in order to 'see' the story, so it is collaborative in a way that a film can never be.
