FastSaying

I follow the director's lead because they generally know more about the big picture, but I also trust that the director will give me enough freedom to play.


Yuri Lowenthal

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

My greatest strength as an actor is that I follow my director's brief completely. The film is al...
JOHN ABRAHAM I think one third of my work is with first-time directors because I think I should, you know? Really...
RUTGER HAUER I will never become a director or a movie producer. I was always looking at picture directing becaus...
LIAM NEESON People who know your work and know your personality, they know your strengths and weaknesses. A dire...
DOUG JONES The lead actor, along with the director, plays a big role in what the vibe will be on set, and that&...
NICHOLAS HOULT I suppose where I am sort of reflects the work I have chosen to do. Are there occasional frustration...
DAMIAN LEWIS With a play, there's more of a definable arc because of the nature of theater: You know, there&#...
DAN FUTTERMAN I surrender to my directors. I do that because I respect them immensely. In fact, a director's t...
VIJAY SETHUPATHI 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 would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm al...
AARON ECKHART The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.
D. B. SWEENEY I hate to sound like Julie the cruise director but it's people that I think about all the time.
BRUCE MCCULLOCH You know, the dirty secret in the Director's Guild is that the average life expectancy of Direct...
ELI ROTH 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 just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don't know where it's going to le...
GRACE JONES I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.
AVA GARDNER I have only one rule in acting--trust the director, and give him heart and soul.
AVA GARDNER Usually in features, I'm the lead. I consider the director the captain, but I consider myself th...
EDDIE ALBERT I will work with a director who has good material because at the end of the day, that's what cou...
JAVIER BARDEM I couldn't give away my husband's shoes. I could give away other things, but the shoes - I d...
JOAN DIDION I want to take roles that challenge me and I want to like the script and obviously feel connected wi...
AMY SMART It's all about the director for me; we have to click. It's a trust thing. I'll say I'...
JUNO TEMPLE It's funny because I've resisted acting as a career for most of my life. But both my parents...
DYLAN PENN I was concerned about who he would put in there as FBI director because he had expressed antipathy f...
LOUIS FREEH I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.
PATRICIA CLARKSON I'd love to see the rushes but it's just not allowed because directors and also a lot of act...
COREY HAIM By the time I was seven, I did a sonnet at Shakespeare's Globe theatre for Shakespeare's bir...
ALFRED ENOCH To have a philosophical view on what time is, we would have to go outside the box and look at the bi...
GARY F EVANS... A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good...
JOHN MILIUS I remember my very first audition for a film. I was in Seattle. They were taping the session, and I ...
ZOE MCLELLAN Sometimes I'll go for something more because of the story, or more because of the director. But, gen...
GUY PEARCE Time management is a big part of the director's job.
DEBBIE ALLEN Casting, to me, is always the same. It's a very important part of a director's job. I pick p...
SCOTT ELLIS I always believe that one can't interfere in another's work. Once I start work on any film, ...
MAHESH BABU I've definitely become more aware and conscious of what directors I'm working with because i...
KATE MARA I have done theatre, and I enjoy the process of smaller films a lot more. When I do such films, ther...
NAWAZUDDIN SIDDIQUI For me, it's important that the script is good. Then a good director will want to make it.
DANIEL ESPINOSA When a film works, the director had a lot to do with that, but the director also didn't have a l...
MIKE MILLS I heard we'll get you a pass because we know you're married to a black woman. You're mar...
BLAIR UNDERWOOD I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.
ELI ROTH I have my pride. I'm a director. I'm not going to go and recreate some other director's ...
FEDE ALVAREZ The orchestra confides in me about their music director or their conductor, and I've never seen ...
JOSHUA BELL Sometimes I get insecure about being a real director because I look at the great directors, and they...
BEN AFFLECK For me, the director is the most important thing. He is steering the boat. If you don't trust hi...
MICHELLE YEOH For me, I never take a job thinking it's going to grab ratings or that it's even going to be...
KATE DEL CASTILLO I think it's important that a director be able to know his characters inside and out.
GEORGE TILLMAN, JR. The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be...
HAROLD RAMIS A friend of my mom's was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acti...
BEN AFFLECK I want the subject to be in control. Because they will give me something I couldn't possibly kno...
EVE ARNOLD I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always k...
ALDEN EHRENREICH I started out as a writer and a director. I started acting because I wanted to know how to relate to...
CHADWICK BOSEMAN 'Independent' means one thing to me: It means that regardless of the source of financing, th...
ALEXANDER PAYNE I'm a comedian, for God's sake. Viewers shouldn't trust me. And you know what? They'...
DENNIS MILLER To win Best Director at Sundance was beyond anything I could have imagined for myself. It's stil...
AVA DUVERNAY A director makes 100 decisions an hour. Students ask me how you know how to make the right decision,...
GEORGE LUCAS In the movies, you want a good story and characters that are honest, but you are also looking for a ...
ASHTON KUTCHER I heard we'll get you a pass because we know you're married to a black woman. You're married to a si...
BLAIR UNDERWOOD Once I've ascertained that I'm safe and I'm with a director who is taking care of me, th...
JULIANNE MOORE Whenever I'm in theatre situations I will go out of my way not to talk about my father, but in t...
REBECCA HALL A good script and a good brief from the director is enough to let me know what is expected of me.
SANJAY DUTT Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.
GEORGE CUKOR I've always had a passion for giving back. It's a family tradition that comes from my devout...
DIKEMBE MUTOMBO Those who see the cosmic perspective as a depressing outlook, they really need to reassess how they ...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.
TAYLOR HACKFORD My philosophy has always been that I hope I have a good enough day to give me another one, I hope th...
DAVID NAIL The idea, as a director, is to be able to bring everybody on board and to inspire and give energy to...
DENIS VILLENEUVE I don't have a director. The audience directs me.
HAL HOLBROOK The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the who...
ROLAND JOFFE When I decided to work with Krishna Vamsi, people around me were apprehensive about my decision. The...
RAM CHARAN I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commerci...
CHARLES S. DUTTON 'Analyze This' is a good movie because Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal are really good. But...
HAROLD RAMIS In the end, it's acting, it's not real. But every director will tell you that you have to cr...
PAUL GREENGRASS I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.
HAROLD RAMIS If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
PATRICE LECONTE The director needs to be in command on set because everything crumbles if that's not the case.
KENNETH BRANAGH If the project has good writing and is something I get excited about, then I'll do the role. And...
GBENGA AKINNAGBE I really trust Susan Stroman. I really think she knows what she's doing. I really trust Andrew L...
KATE BALDWIN I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting ...
MATT DAMON I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures...
HOWARD HAWKS They were cool about it. I think it was the athletic director.
BRITTANY HOLESTINE I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.
CARTER BURWELL With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

More Yuri Lowenthal

A lot of times, for videogames, you get almost no time to prepare with a script. You've got a di...
YURI LOWENTHAL I've been a fan for a long time, and it's a reason I wanted to be a part of it. Now I'm ...
YURI LOWENTHAL A lot of the characters I play on Japanese shows are actually acted in Japan by women. I don't k...
YURI LOWENTHAL A storytelling device teaches. I hate to say it that way, because kids tune out. I don't teach o...
YURI LOWENTHAL I go to work and get to hang out with nothing but my kind of guys!
YURI LOWENTHAL The line between anime and regular animation is very difficult to cross, even for people who have be...
YURI LOWENTHAL Personally, the first year when I started making enough money just from acting - by that, I mean not...
YURI LOWENTHAL Man, it's hard to beat having gotten to play Superman. But where do you go from there? Aren'...
YURI LOWENTHAL Sometimes I become attached to a character because I've gotten to explore him for so long, like ...
YURI LOWENTHAL It usually starts with the director and any other creatives who may be involved at the start. It'...
YURI LOWENTHAL I love when I go to conventions, and often it'll be the younger kids who will refer to us by our...
YURI LOWENTHAL Occasionally, especially on video games and with a lot of the fighting stuff, to get what you feel i...
YURI LOWENTHAL I've been writing for a long time, and I've loved comic books for a long time - forever - bu...
YURI LOWENTHAL I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated ser...
YURI LOWENTHAL I've always wanted to be Batman, but I don't naturally tend towards Batman. I tend towards R...
YURI LOWENTHAL I speak from a nerd's perspective because I've been watching anime since I was a kid. I grew...
YURI LOWENTHAL 'Red Robin' was just another audition, like a lot of other auditions. I just lucked out, and...
YURI LOWENTHAL I do a lot of voice over for Japanese anime titles as well as live-action stuff and original stuff f...
YURI LOWENTHAL As far as actors who pop up again and again in Japanese dubs, and because they're really good ac...
YURI LOWENTHAL The past remains integral to us all, individually and collectively. We must concede the ancients the...
DAVID LOWENTHAL Those who deny human-caused climate change offer no compelling evidence to better explain the undeni...
ALAN LOWENTHAL It's fantastic from a consumer research standpoint. You can type in a search for 'shopping' and then...
BARRY LOWENTHAL It's fantastic from a consumer research standpoint. You can type in a search for 'shopping' and then...
BARRY LOWENTHAL When I took my trip out there, the coaching staff was great, the players were great. I really loved ...
TODD LOWENTHAL From a brand standpoint, it's become another way to reach consumers.
BARRY LOWENTHAL I live and die for the Buckeyes. I also love to play racquetball.
ALAN LOWENTHAL I'm passionate about the issues that I care about, and I'm a really good listener.
ALAN LOWENTHAL Human-caused climate change threatens almost every aspect of human existence.
ALAN LOWENTHAL I don't think we have a lot to show yet for the intelligence reform. What's their vision for running...
MARK LOWENTHAL We're playing a lot of catch-up.
MARK LOWENTHAL This is so incredibly short-sighted.
MARK LOWENTHAL Google never knew how successful key words would be.
YURI MILNER Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.
YURI MILNER I'm trying to learn from various corners of the world.
YURI MILNER There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were ve...
YURI MILNER Facebook is a platform inside a platform.
YURI MILNER I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
YURI MILNER The largest newspaper in the United States is only reaching 1 percent of population. We are kind of ...
YURI MILNER Science is one of a handful of things that defines us as a very special species. It is amazing how f...
YURI MILNER It's not about revenues: The fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The...
YURI MILNER The company that creates one global social graph will be very important going forward. It will be Fa...
YURI MILNER Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where popula...
YURI MILNER My background is in theoretical physics, and it's something very close to my heart.
YURI MILNER I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future...
YURI MILNER I have invested in four social networks. More than any other. But that's in Russia and Poland.
YURI MILNER One of the companies that we've invested in is called Facebook. In only two years, between 2009 ...
YURI MILNER I'm just focused on exploring new opportunities.
YURI MILNER Big Internet companies on average are capable of generating revenue of $1 million per employee, and ...
YURI MILNER Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It's completely non-practical, and you can'...
YURI MILNER Social is a better way to interact with digital world. It is better than search. Implications for......
YURI MILNER Facebook is at the forefront. It's the company that can fundamentally change the way information...
YURI MILNER I have this ratio that if you divide age of entrepreneur by market cap of company. For Facebook it&#...
YURI MILNER The problem is that modern fundamental physics is so far from you and me. The mathematics has become...
YURI MILNER Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an inves...
YURI MILNER Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences.
YURI MILNER I lived in San Pedro, California, which is, you know, on the west side of California, and it's w...
YURI KOCHIYAMA When you're in a black group, you have to keep in mind you're not black. You just have to be...
YURI KOCHIYAMA Projects meant living with blacks and Puerto Ricans, but that's what we wanted. Living in the pr...
YURI KOCHIYAMA People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back.
YURI KOCHIYAMA I see Earth! It is so beautiful!
YURI GAGARIN I could have gone on flying through space forever.
YURI GAGARIN Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods.
YURI ANDROPOV One must say bluntly that it is an unattractive sight when, with a view to smearing the Soviet peopl...
YURI ANDROPOV Malicious attacks on the Soviet Union produce a natural feeling of indignation.
YURI ANDROPOV Responsible statesmen have only one choice - to do everything possible to prevent a nuclear catastro...
YURI ANDROPOV peace for ourselves and for all the people of the planet.
YURI ANDROPOV There are indications that domestic and foreign policies of the Party enjoy the unanimous support of...
YURI ANDROPOV Yes, Samantha, we in the Soviet Union are trying to do everything so that there will not be war on E...
YURI ANDROPOV They violate elementary norms of decency.
YURI ANDROPOV I tell you, in this country, you don't get much of an education. Throughout high school, through...
YURI KOCHIYAMA I didn't wake up and decide to become an activist. But you couldn't help notice the inequiti...
YURI KOCHIYAMA It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are ...
YURI MILNER There is huge demand for artificial intelligence technologies.
YURI MILNER Four of the suspects have been deported and another one is being detained.
YURI THAMRIN We are working at full strength all over the territory of the market.
YURI AKIMOV We are working at full strength all over the territory of the market. Rescue workers are working und...
YURI AKIMOV It's still not possible to use heavy equipment to sort through the wreckage, since there are living ...
YURI AKIMOV Rescuers are hoping that the majority of people trapped in the ruins can be brought out alive.
YURI AKIMOV The main task now is not to let the building collapse further.
YURI AKIMOV It is not a permanent recall, but it is important because there are issues that need to be discussed...
YURI THAMRIN Such a condemnation should be considered a high-profile protest which is not merely describing anger...
YURI THAMRIN Automatically, it would not mean a violation of the treaty,
YURI BALUYEVSKY At the meantime, we don't know exactly if they were applying for asylum. The Indonesian Embassy has ...
YURI THAMRIN When we conceived the Mir, we didn't think much about its end, the prospect seemed so distant and we...
YURI SEMYONOV Nosotros somos los culpables de esta destrucción, los que no hablamos su lengua ni sabemos estar en...
YURI HERRERA I think that these actions of the prison administration are absolutely open lawlessness.
YURI SHMIDT The Mir has lived a wonderful life and must end it in a graceful way,
YURI SEMYONOV Nothing can last forever,
YURI SEMYONOV Indonesia is also a democracy that upholds freedom of expression, but such freedom cannot be used as...
YURI THAMRIN If he's looking for an opportunity to engage in dialogue and get to know the community better, this ...
YURI CUNZA We know that in the past the police department has reached out to us, and in the same way we feel we...
YURI CUNZA He was hurt deeply and he wanted himself not to be alive anymore.
YURI CUNZA Luis is a young man that has serious responsibilities on his shoulders, not only as a husband but as...
YURI CUNZA [Indonesia called for international help Friday to combat the bird flu virus that has killed six peo...
YURI THAMRIN We hope to launch a Personal Satellite Assistant in about two years aboard a space shuttle and in ab...
YURI GAWDIAK I took him to a good professional counselor. I think the language barrier was a problem.
YURI CUNZA We must discard it while we are still capable of controlling it, not turn its descent into a roulett...
YURI SEMYONOV It's become enticing to the criminal element that are preying on the challenges (of the Hispanic com...
YURI CUNZA If I had finished the final hole with a par or better, I would have been satisfied. But my performan...
YURI FUDO The government of Indonesia is surprised and disappointed and deeply deploring this decision by the ...
YURI THAMRIN We have to check and make sure whether the U.S. has given the information to Indonesia or not,
YURI THAMRIN This morning, the passengers of the boat will undergo medical checks, and there are yet no (complete...
YURI THAMRIN Teams that spend a lot of time learning the tricks of the trade will probably never really learn the...
YURI BOGANOV That's why we make enemies of our friends as soon as they start to drift, he thought, cos that way t...
YURI HERRERA По суті, ми жертви не того, що з нами сталося, а того, чог...
YURI IZDRYK It took a long time for me to win one last season but this victory came in just the second tournamen...
YURI FUDO We know that bird flu is a very dangerous disease. The virus mutates easily ... and moves very quick...
YURI THAMRIN I could have gone on flying through space forever.
YURI A. GAGARIN