top of page
Quote_1.png
Richard Donner

"Some actors just won't bend, and then it's a bitch. You either fight or find ways of putting your words in their mouth and letting them say it back at you."

Standard 
 Customized
"Some actors just won't bend, and then it's a bitch. You either fight or find ways of putting your words in their mouth and letting them say it back at you."

Exlpore more Actor quotes

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"I've been a very lucky actor."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"In live stage, the actor lives."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"We've had no problems with the actors, but we keep a really loose set."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"To be able to rely completely on the actors was a very simple process for me."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors."

Explore more quotes by Richard Donner

Quote_1.png
Richard Donner
"If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world."
Quote_1.png
Richard Donner
"I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries."
Quote_1.png
Richard Donner
"That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you."
Quote_1.png
Richard Donner
"Superman was never previewed because the producers didn't trust Warners with the film."
Quote_1.png
Richard Donner
"Some actors just won't bend, and then it's a bitch. You either fight or find ways of putting your words in their mouth and letting them say it back at you."
Quote_1.png
Richard Donner
"It was the beginning of film for television. So we had all of these great opportunities. Northwestern was probably the only major film school of its kind at the time that was graduating anybody important."
Quote_1.png
Richard Donner
"First cuts are a bitch for a director, because it's been so many months and you put your trust in your editor and you're going to see your film assembled for the first time. You look at it and go, This is terrible. I hate it."
Quote_1.png
Richard Donner
"When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long, or that doesn't work."
Quote_1.png
Richard Donner
"I was very lucky. I started my own commercial company."
Quote_1.png
Richard Donner
"In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor."
bottom of page