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Most actors are pretty adaptable because we work with so many directors.
KYLE MACLACHLAN![]()
Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are ...
KEVIN SPACEY![]()
Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.
YVONNE STRAHOVSKI We have talented actors, but we do need directors and producers.
FRED BROWN![]()
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
ANON.![]()
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
UNKNOWN![]()
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
ANONYMOUS I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors.
JONATHAN FRAKES Actors have given up their clout. Now decision making is in the hands of lighting men, designers, ba...
PETER O'TOOLE Our first obligation is to Hall County because we provide a work force for Hall County. We need to b...
CINDY BLAKLEY![]()
The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I...
MOBY![]()
We make a contract within ourselves as actors or directors or writers about how much of ourselves we...
AJAY NAIDU The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all cla...
TIMOTHY WEST![]()
The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best ac...
STELLA ADLER In terms of directors, great actors make directors - Gary Oldman was great to work with, for me; Tim...
RAY WINSTONE![]()
A pilot is like the most extensive dress rehearsal you can ever imagine, because the writers are lea...
KIM CATTRALL My favorite thing about this business is you're just jammed in a room on a set with like-minded ...
KAITLIN DOUBLEDAY If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... Our sights are set on improving over our performance last year. I definitely think we have the talen...
GARY TOWNE I'm not like most designers, who have to set sail on an exotic getaway to get inspired. Most of ...
ALEXANDER WANG Some times we need
to work hard
to get the JOB done
SARVESH That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors.
VINCENT H. O'NEIL Proper meditation develops awareness, allowing us balance through consciousness. Rather than living ...
HOWARD MANN![]()
For female directors, there's a whole other set of things we have to think about, particularly w...
AVA DUVERNAY It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writ...
NAVEEN ANDREWS![]()
The greatest thing about having done 'Orange' are the doors that have opened for me, and peo...
RUBY ROSE![]()
I've had the great fortune to work with many great directors [and] great actors, and I just want to ...
ANTHONY HOPKINS I've discovered just how symbiotic the relationship is between writers, directors and actors. Th...
DAMIAN LEWIS Almost 50 percent of the work actors used to do for television is gone. Broadcast stations are all a...
CARI SHAYNE There are etiquette things that actors, new actors, need to know about. Because it only takes one me...
LORETTA DEVINE We need to go to work. We need to get out of our homes.
ALI HUSSEIN People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another professio...
ESTELLE PARSONS Finding directors of any kind is more difficult than ever. Active CEOs, who are most wanted, are oft...
JULIE DAUM![]()
Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artist...
JOHN MAEDA We need to get that taste in our mouth so we can set a tradition here to set the example for the you...
CHARLIE MILLER I feel very, very grateful. I'm a lucky guy, you need a lot of luck, and then when the cameras r...
BRAD GARRETT We're happy to get the work done, but we just need to negotiate and sort out the costs.
JANE WILSON![]()
...there are a lot of successful writers who never even see their work done.
DAVID HOWARD Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.
KENT MCCORD![]()
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we n...
E. L. DOCTOROW We will need to get a certain minimum actors to proceed.
CATHY MIRELEZ A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.
BRUCE BOXLEITNER![]()
Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.
DANIEL KEYS MORAN People need to step forward and get this done. We need to work together instead of all the burden be...
LEONARD HIATT Know your lines; otherwise, have an open mind because you want to get lost in the moment. When you h...
DAVE BAUTISTA I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are v...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY We had a very efficient spring. We came in, we took care of business, we got our work done and we go...
AARON HARANG When we did concerts, we wanted them to be theatrical events - collaborations with designers, choreo...
NEIL TENNANT![]()
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because ...
E. L. DOCTOROW![]()
There are some good writer/directors in the U.S. as well. In general the writing and directing tend ...
BRUCE BERESFORD I've been fortunate in my career to have the opportunity to pick and choose the parts I play. I&...
POWERS BOOTHE We need theatre that is contemporary, lively and relevant, and the only way to do that is to take ca...
THERESA REBECK The directors I respect are the ones who have a collaborative attitude, who collaborate with actors.
ERIC BRAEDEN Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the direct...
SAM WORTHINGTON I love writing plays because they are living, fluid things that are energised by the producer, desig...
BERLIE DOHERTY We need $50,000 to get the documentary done. To get it onto cable TV stations outside our area, we n...
JAN KRANICH No one is questioning the good that is being done with this money. We just need the money here in th...
JEFF BAKER Our lives are embellished enough with designers and chrome, death is one thing that doesn't need tin...
GRAHAME HARLOW In England, when we're at drama school, we spend a lot of time learning the craft from playwrigh...
SAM CLAFLIN Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do.
ERIC FELLNER![]()
To get things done, we must work together. We must meet in the middle to work out our differences an...
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON He's one of the most important American playwrights ever,
ROCCO LANDESMAN When movies work or a TV series, when they really work, it's because of the collaborative effort...
ROCKY CARROLL Community theater depends on its friends and neighbors to take the role of actors, producers, direct...
JOYCE HENDRICKS As a director, you never get to watch other directors work, and you also don't get to collaborat...
SPIKE JONZE![]()
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
PETER F. DRUCKER![]()
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
PETER DRUCKER The beautiful thing about it is that no two directors or actors work the same way. You also learn no...
EWAN MCGREGOR![]()
One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - dire...
YO-YO MA It's a bad day when you don't get the work done that you need to get done or you don't g...
DAVID FINCHER The letters were universally complimentary, and we designers loved hearing that our games were being...
DAVID CRANE The health of our forests are being challenged by fragmentation and (the absence) of management. We'...
BILLY THOMAS![]()
I've stayed friends with most directors I've worked with, and I never have a problem with any other ...
SEAN CONNERY I work part-time after classes, so I don't get home until late. I really have no time to use the lib...
PETER ANDERSON![]()
Many plays-certainly mine-are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures o...
THORNTON WILDER![]()
Many plays, certainly mine, are like blank cheques. The actors and directors put their own signature...
THORNTON WILDER The majors now have sort of semi-independent companies allied with them, making lower-budget films. ...
ROGER CORMAN Somebody has to pay our editors, writers, journalists, designers, developers, and all the other spec...
JEFFREY ZELDMAN Our destiny is sort of in our own hands. We need to get back on track. This is really the most impor...
DEREK COLEMAN![]()
Right, well, we've got to work out what we need. We've got to work out what we need, how we get it, ...
DEREK LANDY Actors, writers, singers, dancers, comedians, belly dancers with snakes, you name it, they've been h...
DOROTHY PALMER We know what we need to get done.
CELENA VELASQUEZ![]()
[On the other hand, Lions says, big names can be a boon to playwrights as well as producers. Broadwa...
JULIA ROBERTS We are immortal until our work on earth is done.
GEORGE WHITEFIELD With directors, some have a kind of in-built ability to just know how to work with actors and get th...
PADDY CONSIDINE The work is a set of five vignettes, sketches. The actors do everything. The stage is set in typical...
ANTHONY RUGGIERO There are always hitches we can fix, and that is what we need to know from the directors, producers,...
MARCO MULLER![]()
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT![]()
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
T. S. ELIOT Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
T.S. ELIOT Some of the best art in the world is collaborative, a mix of voices that are stronger together than ...
TED NAIFEH I think that's a mistake. We need to realize that training will keep these people in the work force ...
SANDRA TIMMERMAN![]()
In graduate school, I decide to write my doctoral thesis on how Italian architecture influenced Engl...
JHUMPA LAHIRI Most designers work up to a peak. They do some great stuff, and then it's just junk.
CHARLES POLLOCK![]()
I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy ...
AL PACINO We have to get our minds set that we're not a team that's going to over time progressively get bette...
J.P. LOSMAN 'Skins' had been a brilliant breeding ground for young actors, young directors and young wri...
JOE DEMPSIE We need to get this done. This is the only way in the short run to get it done,
ED MURRAY
KYLE MACLACHLAN
Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are ... KEVIN SPACEY
Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast. YVONNE STRAHOVSKI We have talented actors, but we do need directors and producers.
FRED BROWN
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. ANON.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. UNKNOWN
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. ANONYMOUS I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors.
JONATHAN FRAKES Actors have given up their clout. Now decision making is in the hands of lighting men, designers, ba...
PETER O'TOOLE Our first obligation is to Hall County because we provide a work force for Hall County. We need to b...
CINDY BLAKLEY
The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I... MOBY
We make a contract within ourselves as actors or directors or writers about how much of ourselves we... AJAY NAIDU The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all cla...
TIMOTHY WEST
The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best ac... STELLA ADLER In terms of directors, great actors make directors - Gary Oldman was great to work with, for me; Tim...
RAY WINSTONE
A pilot is like the most extensive dress rehearsal you can ever imagine, because the writers are lea... KIM CATTRALL My favorite thing about this business is you're just jammed in a room on a set with like-minded ...
KAITLIN DOUBLEDAY If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... Our sights are set on improving over our performance last year. I definitely think we have the talen...
GARY TOWNE I'm not like most designers, who have to set sail on an exotic getaway to get inspired. Most of ...
ALEXANDER WANG Some times we need
to work hard
to get the JOB done
SARVESH That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors.
VINCENT H. O'NEIL Proper meditation develops awareness, allowing us balance through consciousness. Rather than living ...
HOWARD MANN
For female directors, there's a whole other set of things we have to think about, particularly w... AVA DUVERNAY It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writ...
NAVEEN ANDREWS
The greatest thing about having done 'Orange' are the doors that have opened for me, and peo... RUBY ROSE
I've had the great fortune to work with many great directors [and] great actors, and I just want to ... ANTHONY HOPKINS I've discovered just how symbiotic the relationship is between writers, directors and actors. Th...
DAMIAN LEWIS Almost 50 percent of the work actors used to do for television is gone. Broadcast stations are all a...
CARI SHAYNE There are etiquette things that actors, new actors, need to know about. Because it only takes one me...
LORETTA DEVINE We need to go to work. We need to get out of our homes.
ALI HUSSEIN People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another professio...
ESTELLE PARSONS Finding directors of any kind is more difficult than ever. Active CEOs, who are most wanted, are oft...
JULIE DAUM
Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artist... JOHN MAEDA We need to get that taste in our mouth so we can set a tradition here to set the example for the you...
CHARLIE MILLER I feel very, very grateful. I'm a lucky guy, you need a lot of luck, and then when the cameras r...
BRAD GARRETT We're happy to get the work done, but we just need to negotiate and sort out the costs.
JANE WILSON
...there are a lot of successful writers who never even see their work done. DAVID HOWARD Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.
KENT MCCORD
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we n... E. L. DOCTOROW We will need to get a certain minimum actors to proceed.
CATHY MIRELEZ A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.
BRUCE BOXLEITNER
Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories. DANIEL KEYS MORAN People need to step forward and get this done. We need to work together instead of all the burden be...
LEONARD HIATT Know your lines; otherwise, have an open mind because you want to get lost in the moment. When you h...
DAVE BAUTISTA I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are v...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY We had a very efficient spring. We came in, we took care of business, we got our work done and we go...
AARON HARANG When we did concerts, we wanted them to be theatrical events - collaborations with designers, choreo...
NEIL TENNANT
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because ... E. L. DOCTOROW
There are some good writer/directors in the U.S. as well. In general the writing and directing tend ... BRUCE BERESFORD I've been fortunate in my career to have the opportunity to pick and choose the parts I play. I&...
POWERS BOOTHE We need theatre that is contemporary, lively and relevant, and the only way to do that is to take ca...
THERESA REBECK The directors I respect are the ones who have a collaborative attitude, who collaborate with actors.
ERIC BRAEDEN Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the direct...
SAM WORTHINGTON I love writing plays because they are living, fluid things that are energised by the producer, desig...
BERLIE DOHERTY We need $50,000 to get the documentary done. To get it onto cable TV stations outside our area, we n...
JAN KRANICH No one is questioning the good that is being done with this money. We just need the money here in th...
JEFF BAKER Our lives are embellished enough with designers and chrome, death is one thing that doesn't need tin...
GRAHAME HARLOW In England, when we're at drama school, we spend a lot of time learning the craft from playwrigh...
SAM CLAFLIN Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do.
ERIC FELLNER
To get things done, we must work together. We must meet in the middle to work out our differences an... CHRISTINE GREGOIRE A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON He's one of the most important American playwrights ever,
ROCCO LANDESMAN When movies work or a TV series, when they really work, it's because of the collaborative effort...
ROCKY CARROLL Community theater depends on its friends and neighbors to take the role of actors, producers, direct...
JOYCE HENDRICKS As a director, you never get to watch other directors work, and you also don't get to collaborat...
SPIKE JONZE
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done. PETER F. DRUCKER
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done. PETER DRUCKER The beautiful thing about it is that no two directors or actors work the same way. You also learn no...
EWAN MCGREGOR
One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - dire... YO-YO MA It's a bad day when you don't get the work done that you need to get done or you don't g...
DAVID FINCHER The letters were universally complimentary, and we designers loved hearing that our games were being...
DAVID CRANE The health of our forests are being challenged by fragmentation and (the absence) of management. We'...
BILLY THOMAS
I've stayed friends with most directors I've worked with, and I never have a problem with any other ... SEAN CONNERY I work part-time after classes, so I don't get home until late. I really have no time to use the lib...
PETER ANDERSON
Many plays-certainly mine-are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures o... THORNTON WILDER
Many plays, certainly mine, are like blank cheques. The actors and directors put their own signature... THORNTON WILDER The majors now have sort of semi-independent companies allied with them, making lower-budget films. ...
ROGER CORMAN Somebody has to pay our editors, writers, journalists, designers, developers, and all the other spec...
JEFFREY ZELDMAN Our destiny is sort of in our own hands. We need to get back on track. This is really the most impor...
DEREK COLEMAN
Right, well, we've got to work out what we need. We've got to work out what we need, how we get it, ... DEREK LANDY Actors, writers, singers, dancers, comedians, belly dancers with snakes, you name it, they've been h...
DOROTHY PALMER We know what we need to get done.
CELENA VELASQUEZ
[On the other hand, Lions says, big names can be a boon to playwrights as well as producers. Broadwa... JULIA ROBERTS We are immortal until our work on earth is done.
GEORGE WHITEFIELD With directors, some have a kind of in-built ability to just know how to work with actors and get th...
PADDY CONSIDINE The work is a set of five vignettes, sketches. The actors do everything. The stage is set in typical...
ANTHONY RUGGIERO There are always hitches we can fix, and that is what we need to know from the directors, producers,...
MARCO MULLER
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. T. S. ELIOT Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. T.S. ELIOT Some of the best art in the world is collaborative, a mix of voices that are stronger together than ...
TED NAIFEH I think that's a mistake. We need to realize that training will keep these people in the work force ...
SANDRA TIMMERMAN
In graduate school, I decide to write my doctoral thesis on how Italian architecture influenced Engl... JHUMPA LAHIRI Most designers work up to a peak. They do some great stuff, and then it's just junk.
CHARLES POLLOCK
I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy ... AL PACINO We have to get our minds set that we're not a team that's going to over time progressively get bette...
J.P. LOSMAN 'Skins' had been a brilliant breeding ground for young actors, young directors and young wri...
JOE DEMPSIE We need to get this done. This is the only way in the short run to get it done,
ED MURRAY
I had braces for six years! Kids would call me 'big teeth' or 'rabbit teeth.' 
Looking back, I've always enjoyed hearing about the lives of other people, their experience thro... 
I love Jidenna and Leon Bridges. 
There is a kind of beauty in imperfection. 
To me, it's not the end of the world if I end up not being with someone. I love romance. I love ... 
My favorite teams are the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Jets. 
I guess I've always been a groupie. My first date was a bull rider called Tommy Lee Bryant. We&#... 
My long, blonde hair has been my trademark ever since I started modelling in the Seventies, when I w... 
Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered ... 
To love a man enough to help him, you have to forfeit the warm, self-righteous glow that comes from ... 
The truest form of love is how you behave toward someone, not how you feel about them. 
Your ability to learn depends partly on your ability to relinquish what you've held. 
He is great enough that is his own master. 
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world. 
Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lo... 
Maturity is knowing when to be immature. 
You will find that silence or very gentle words are the most exquisite revenge for insult. 
Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion. 
Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful. 
Sometimes, I seem to be only able to actually move and get going with things on the razor edge of po... 
I was a sort of New York intellectual when I was 16. I wanted to dress like Annie Hall when I was 18... 
I'm trying to get my next job as a biracial action hero. 
It's so rare that I get to do something in my own accent in my own hometown. 
In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - ... 
There are people all over the world who like to write fan letters in the voice of their pet: 'He... 
And, if I were so low that I accounted myself the worst of all, yet some would account themselves in... 
I am always looking for a cool tee shirt; maybe one with a rock band or an old advertisement. 
It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn... 