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"When I became a director, I wanted to convince a very reluctant Sidney into allowing me to go on the journey of his life. Sidney had gone ahead of every other African American actor."
"I want to get into the theater. I really wanted to be a theater director, but I turned out to be a movie director."
"The popular image that Hollywood is ruined by difficult prima donna actors is nonsense. They're certainly very nice to directors. I can't say the same about producers, who I found difficult, paranoid, and certifiably insane, mostly."
"When you do a rewrite, it's really about serving the director's vision, and what the director needs to go into that script."
"I had to go and sing with the musical director of the film, Simon Lee, who is just incredible, and it went great. I sang with him about five things, things we'd worked on. And then I went to sing for Andrew Lloyd Weber."
"For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa."
"I'm not in a position where I get to pick and choose roles. I usually go on auditions in long lines and embarrass myself in front of casting directors, and with a lump in my throat and my ears burning, I walk past reception and smirking actors as I go to the parking garage and go back on the highway."
"The program director at a radio station, by the way, is not the superstar. If he was a superstar, he'd be out creating songs, but he's not. But he wants to act like he has control and power."
"Why would people have confidence in a female director when there are so few?"
"There are directors that I want to work with and that I admire. You can love a script, but if it doesn't have a good director, it won't be that."
"Whenever I really want a part, I'm not sure what to do. How do I let the director know how obsessed I am and willing to do anything for the movie?"
"DNI director [James] Clapper said as much many, many times, that there is no evidence that any outcome of the election was changed."
"I really love the experience of moving things around, in terms of being a director."
"I learn a lot from every director that I work with. I sit on set and watch them, every one."
"[John] Hughes was open to that [rehearsal]. This can only happen if the director and/or the writer are open to that."
"Breakfast Club was great because we had a real rehearsal, and we shot primarily in sequence. I thought that was going to be how movies were done. I didn't really know how lucky we all were. We had a director that liked actors. I didn't know that was going to be rare."
"I got offered to do Ben 10. Sue Blu was the [voice] director of that, and I had worked with her - I think she was on Transformers as well. And she was so great."
"I detest producing. I mean, I feel like I do it to enable myself to do all the other stuff that I do love, but I find it's in conflict with the other roles because the producer needs to be the one who says "No" and the director and the writer need to let their mind be free."
"When I do a film, usually I work from my director. That's my boss. The director is interpreting the writer's vision, and we all interpret it, and they create their own vision as well."
"As an actor I can sort of smell a duff note, that isn't full of that much conviction. My worst thing with directors is when I know more than them about the character."
