Joel Gretsch Quotes

It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.

I've always appreciated directors but I have a newfound appreciation for them and producers and everyone who does what they do that actors don't see. When you have one job, that's all you care about, that's all you're supposed to focus on. But focusing on so many different things, I was introduced to how hard everyone else works too.

You work with great directors and terrible directors, and so you learn; you take what you think will work for you.

I think even if you're on a screen or you're in a play, it's always a group effort. It's not just the actors, it's the editor.

A film just doesn't involve actors, a director and a producer, there is also the cameraman, the sound engineer, the music composer, the lyric writer. So many people come together to make a film. When we all feel satisfied with the film that we have created it's a win for all of us.

Every film you work on is different, and that's part of what it's like for anybody who works on a film, is to learn how to work with others. Learn from top to bottom. Actors have to learn how to work with the director and the director has to learn how to work with actors, and that's not just those two departments.

If the world ran the way a crew runs a set, we'd have a better, more progressive world.

I love working with great actors.

So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies.

I always look forward to working with Goldie because she's a great person to work with.

I was very fortunate in the '70s to work with the best actors, the best directors, the best cinematographers.

I love working with Sally Field, and Steve Buscemi is one of the most giving, talented actors I've ever worked with.

One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.

It was great working with Kevin Smith - just a dream.

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

But I don't just see the movie when I see the movie, I see all the great people who worked on it and all their hard work, because they could not have worked any harder.

I'm definitely one of those actresses who comes to a set knowing how I want to do a scene, and I definitely love input from my directors and my writers. I know that there's some actors who like to be left alone, they like to be very independent, but I actually really enjoy the teamwork.

I work with people like Spielberg and Abrams all the time.

A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.

The thing I find about the movie industry is that 99 percent of the people are absolute scum. They're horrible people, they really are. Very nasty killer rabbits who hate movies. But the other 1 percent are really the greatest, most wonderful people in the world.

When movies work or a TV series, when they really work, it's because of the collaborative effort. Competition is the death knell for anything, in my opinion. Especially in Hollywood. When actors are competing against each other, or when directors are competing against actors, it's usually the beginning of the end.

I'm not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork.

You don't have to like an actor to do a scene with him. You don't have to like a director. But it's just better if you do. And I think, you know, you've got to begin that with respect.

I miss working with great actors, working with great directors.

Actors are actually very supportive of each other.