Elizabeth Pena
Related MICHELLE YEOH I always believe that one can't interfere in another's work. Once I start work on any film, ... MAHESH BABU I don't follow anything that's said about him much, but the Uwe Boll that I know is just a r... MICHAEL EKLUND I think one third of my work is with first-time directors because I think I should, you know? Really... RUTGER HAUER CATE BLANCHETT I'll admit, sometimes I've paid the bills with acting. You know the phrase, 'It's on... PADDY CONSIDINE MICHELLE YEOH BILLY WILDER SRIKUMAR RAO You don't even need the director's judgement. It's too much. CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG WARREN SPECTOR MADONNA CICCONE As a director, your expectation and reality don't always match up, and I think that that's..... JONATHAN LEVINE PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON I don't have a director. The audience directs me. HAL HOLBROOK AYELET ZURER GARY JOHNSON I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him... BARBARA LYNN As a director, I have the greatest job in the world, but if I don't push the boundaries, then wh... CASEY NEISTAT My greatest strength as an actor is that I follow my director's brief completely. The film is al... JOHN ABRAHAM When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of ... MAHESH BABU I don't know what I'm qualified to do, film-wise... So it's really down to a director or... LARRY MULLEN, JR. I travel light as a director. I don't have monitors on my set. DAVID MACKENZIE MUHAMMAD ALI DAVID CRONENBERG MINDY KALING I mean, I've sold all these scripts and nothing's been made. Studios have closed, stars have... BRUCE VILANCH I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm al... AARON ECKHART BLYTHE DANNER As a director, you can't stop a guy if he thinks something's hysterical, because if you do, ... EVAN GOLDBERG I don't even know if I can call myself a director. CHARLES S. DUTTON I don't want to be a director, or to have responsibility for hundreds of people. ZOE WANAMAKER I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tel... LEE DANIELS I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so ... NATASHA RICHARDSON It all has to do with the director, the captain of the ship. He sets the pace, the mood. If the dire... EVA MARIE SAINT I think what's important in a good manager and a good agent is that they know your vision and th... MAIARA WALSH ALAN ALDA I have my pride. I'm a director. I'm not going to go and recreate some other director's ... FEDE ALVAREZ KATRINA KAIF MARTIN GORE Don't ever humiliate a man. If you're gonna have to dress him out, you take him aside and do... RIP TORN A little secret - I'm the child of a shrink. I am; my mom's a shrink, and my father's a ... ADAM SHANKMAN Unless you have a real passion for making movies, then don't bother. I had to carry energy and l... LAURA HARRING I surrender to my directors. I do that because I respect them immensely. In fact, a director's t... VIJAY SETHUPATHI VIRGINIA WOOLF DAVID LYNCH There's a different energy with a female director, a female at the head of the production. I don... HAILEE STEINFELD STEVE SABOL MORTEN TYLDUM You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally impor... MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL My process is very disempowering to the director anyway, so it's essential that you be respectfu... DAVID MILCH No one knows for sure if you can inherit a stammer, and so I worry that my baby might. It's why ... GARETH GATES ASHTON KUTCHER FRANKA POTENTE My hat's off to documentary filmmakers. I don't know if I'm ever going back to it. You&#... TERRY ZWIGOFF There's nothing romantic about my work... I don't believe in inspiration. I believe that you... IRVING STONE I suppose where I am sort of reflects the work I have chosen to do. Are there occasional frustration... DAMIAN LEWIS I don't think a director should have any kids. I don't even think it's good for your phy... TOM BERENGER GEORGE LUCAS MIKE DITKA ELVIS MITCHELL OLIVIA COLMAN WARWICK DAVIS AVA DUVERNAY I don't believe that if one door closes, that's the end. You're in control of that, but ... MICHELLE PHAN DAVID O. RUSSELL My guess is that if they now choose to change of director for every other film, it's just becaus... GUY HAMILTON DARREN ARONOFSKY I was the one who kept telling my second husband he should become a cinematographer. I paid for him ... CARMEN DELL'OREFICE I was the one who kept telling my second husband he should become a cinematographer. I paid for him ... CARMEN DELL'OREFICE I believe that there's good content or bad content. You see interviews when somebody interviews ... EMILIO AZCARRAGA JEAN When you agree to work with a filmmaker, it's important that you accept their world. It's an... TAHAR RAHIM If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have th... PETER FONDA A good director is like a good coach. You want to play for him. You want to really show him your goo... MICHAEL PENA Definitely for myself, I find myself gravitating towards dramatic work. In terms of sitcoms, you kno... REGGIE LEE I remember my very first audition for a film. I was in Seattle. They were taping the session, and I ... ZOE MCLELLAN PETER JACKSON AUNJANUE ELLIS I would just like to say something to all the women out there. You're not the only one that'... BLAC CHYNA FEDERICO FELLINI I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work. HAROLD RAMIS A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good... JOHN MILIUS I don't just sing for free. It's my work. You're paid for what you do. And I work hard. CELINE DION My job is to put words together and tell a story. If that doesn't work for you, it's not a w... ALAN ZWEIBEL I was concerned about who he would put in there as FBI director because he had expressed antipathy f... LOUIS FREEH RIDLEY SCOTT I am always saying, 'I don't believe in God; I believe in Al Pacino.' And that's tru... JAVIER BARDEM GUNTHER SCHULLER To me I don't deal with stress well at all, and it is stressful enough for me to deal with my ow... DOUG JONES I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a goo... VALERIA GOLINO I don't wilt easily, and a director can't either. He's the captain of the ship and he... RICKY SCHRODER I long for an audience. I ache for it. I think that's one of the hardest things about the televi... BRIDGET REGAN CHRISSY TEIGEN BABE RUTH 'Independent' means one thing to me: It means that regardless of the source of financing, th... ALEXANDER PAYNE AVRIL LAVIGNE STEVEN SPIELBERG ALAIN DUCASSE I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if... ELENA ANAYA JULIANNA MARGULIES
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I believe that the director is really the soul. It is a collaborative effort, but the director is th... 
I'm not particularly needy, and I'm not particularly anxious. I don't look for a directo... 
The best director is the one you don't see. 
I don't believe that you have a work life and a home life. I believe that you have one life, and... 
Seriously, I don't know if people would really tell you this. But in my dream world, the people ... 
I have my work and my faith... If that's boring to some people, I can't tell you how much I ... 
I don't think it's a director's job to peek behind the curtain too much. 
If I get lucky and I can choose, I would always choose a really good story and screenplay, even if I... 
I would say that a wasted vote is voting for anybody you don't believe in. If you believe in the... 
My trainer don't tell me nothing between rounds. I don't allow him to. I fight the fight. Al... 
For example I don't work with William Hurt the same way that I will work with Viggo. They're... 
Anybody can have a birthday. It requires nothing. Murderers have birthdays. It's the opposite of... 
I don't read critics, and I don't care what they say. You can't let them steal your soul... 
There is a wonderful feeling of power when you're a director, but I don't think I need that,... 
I believe that if you reject and don't respect what you have now, that's ingratitude. I'... 
If you took music out of my life, I don't know what I'd do. It's the one thing that I ha... 
These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one&#... 
I'm not a real film buff. Unfortunately, I don't have time. I just don't go. And I becom... 
So they talk about heaven, and I don't know what is waiting for me up there. But I can tell you ... 
I don't know if it's a sadistic side or whatever, but you take characters and put them in re... 
In the movies, you want a good story and characters that are honest, but you are also looking for a ... 
I don't really care where I work, actually, because you know making a movie is like living in mo... 
A director makes 100 decisions an hour. Students ask me how you know how to make the right decision,... 
One of my favorite things is mayonnaise and I have to tell you that. I love mayonnaise, but I don... 
Inarritu's own nomination for Best Director for 'Babel' was the first such honor for a M... 
If something touches me, I cry. That's it. I'm a bit raw, a bit rubbish, really. Often, a di... 
But things such as 'Harry Potter', all I can do is shape my character, seek the director'... 
You could make the most beautiful film, and that weekend it's raining too hard on the East Coast... 
I got a nomination for director, which means the world to me; it's just the most exciting thing ... 
There's always been a lot of pressure and tension on the line. If 'Pi' didn't work o... 
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I think a film is a failure if it doesn't have an emotional effect. That's the film's fa... 
I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, ... 
If studios don't get their money back, we don't have any movies. So it is important that fil... 
I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why ... 
Some people, I think, think that because I don't take it as seriously as a lot of the girls do, ... 
Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that&#... 
I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect... 
In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in ... 
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I was told by both an agent and a casting director that I'd never work in television. 
Age does not matter if the matter does not age. 
Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival. 
Mexico holds the fifth-largest shale gas reserve in the world, in addition to large deep-water oil r... 
You can't consider a president weak because he will have a Congress that Mexican voters have wan... 
We have been using foreign affairs ministries to address security issues, but this practice is outda... 
I'm ashamed to admit this, but I didn't read a novel all the way through until after high sc... 
A surprising number of teens I meet in rougher schools around the country find refuge in novels and ... 
We need to stop trying to restrict access to lifesaving cancer screenings, birth control, and well-w... 
The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it. 
I'm a puzzle doer. 
Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers. 
If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not ... 
Everything makes me nervous - except making films. 
I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on. 
How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly! 
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal. 
I typically enjoy a beautiful beach destination, as I find the water and sand to be the most repleni... 
The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of w... 
Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have. 
Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to ... 
It touched me to be trusted with something terrible. 
The lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook are unparalleled natural treasures with some of the high... 
I feel like I don't understand time in novels, really. I bumble forward, is all. 
Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus. 
My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus. 