Theater is very much the world I'd like to get back to, particularly in New York, both as an actor and director.
I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.
It was my band. I organized the band and Dizzy was in the band. Dizzy was the first musical director with the band. Charlie Parker was in the band. But, no, no, that was my band.
I was on the state board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union.
... the director explained to him, in that slow, simplified, style of language that one uses for the intellectually underprivileged,
I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director.
I've worked with Steven Spielberg three times. I'm proud to say that I'm one of those actors that continues to get hired by the same directors.
One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.
I think a first-time director always has to convince a lot of people that they're ready to do it.
I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.
The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it.
I don't think anyone can really make up their mind and say, Now I'm going to be a director.
I've reached a point in England where you can't go much further; I would love to come to America and work with some of the interesting directors here.
An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you don't have time to hand-draw or animate with a computer.
I'm very fortunate to have the privilege of working with directors like Bill Condon and Paul Thomas Anderson, who I think is one of the greatest filmmakers of our time.
Now, therefore, the Directors of the company are hereby ordered to see that precautions are taken to make travel on said railroad perfectly safe by using a screw with at least twenty-four inches diameter.
Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.
Whenever I'm doing anything romantic with an actor, or if there's a director around, I never want anybody's wife to feel threatened by me.
My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something you can phone in.
I have so much respect for television actors and directors. We're on set doing 16-hour days, and that's just what we do.
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.
