Quotes by Directors I learned a lot from Clint [Eastwood], who's an extremely economic director. I learned a lot from Michael Winterbottom, who really gave a lot of trust in the actors and allowed them to live in the space instead of trying to manipulate and make it too set and too staged. Working with [Robert] De Niro taught me a lot of being an actors' director and what that is. I've learned a lot from pretty much everybody. Hopefully I've picked up something from everybody I've worked with. Angelina Jolie space trying directors As a director, I hoped that I was able to help the actors by giving them the space and the respect they need and the trust. I gave them what I always felt I needed when I was working. Angelina Jolie space giving directors I'm shy to call myself a director still. When someone says, 'What do you do for a living?' I don't know if I've earned that. Angelina Jolie shy stills directors I've learned a lot from Clint [Eastwood], who's an extremely economical director. Angelina Jolie ive-learned directors Working with [Robert] De Niro taught me a lot about being an actor's director. Angelina Jolie taught actors directors As an artist, program directors always want to put you in a little box. Angie Stone artist want directors You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern. Ann Macbeth patterns directors world If I feel the part is right, and I know that the producers and the director want me, I'd go for broke. Always. Anne Archer broke want directors There are so many female directors coming into the industry and a lot of them have important stories they want to tell that seem to fall a little bit more on the indie level. Anne Fletcher important directors fall When Chris Nolan is your director you are like, "I trust that, I'm wrong." Anne Hathaway nolan directors In theatre, there's the director, the writer, and below them the actor. In film, it's the actors who are most important. That goes against the grain for me. Anne-Marie Duff theatre important directors You have to get it in your brain that you don't belong to yourself as an actor, but that you belong to the director who creates the character. Anne Parillaud brain character directors As an actor, you want a director who makes you feel comfortable in a place that you can really create and try a lot of different things. Ansel Elgort different trying directors I know that some actors and directors like to have intensity on set. I don't, particularly. Certainly, if they want that, that's fine, but I can't work like that. Anthony Hopkins actors want directors I can't stand directors who try to micro-manage everything. When it happens these days I just walk off set, saying if they don't like the way I'm doing it they can get someone else. Anthony Hopkins trying directors way Obviously with the onset of cable and satellite, there are more opportunities for programming and original programming, so it creates more opportunities for actors and producers and directors and everything. Anthony Michael Hall actors opportunity directors I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write. Anthony Minghella able writing directors Being a writer-director can sometimes make you incredibly blinkered. Anthony Minghella sometimes directors I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema. Antoine Fuqua cinema directors I'm sure there are directors who don't like to work with actors and don't know how to be sensitive to actors. Anton Yelchin sensitive actors directors «23456789101112»