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Directors don't call you for your beauty but for your talent.

— Monica Bellucci

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.

— Aaron Eckhart

That is the great pleasure of working with great directors. You get to look at the world through many different prisms. I guess I love talent, whatever form it takes.

— Isabella Rossellini

Sucking up to a director means you are unsure of your talents. I'm not.

— Kangana Ranaut

I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.

— Alex Cox

Directors are not worried about casting beautiful women, but they are not sure that they want to cast great-looking men. My looks have prevented people from seeing my work.

— Rob Lowe

I think when you work with really wonderful directors who have a really strong vision, it lets you as an artist set the tone for your own career.

— Sarah Gadon

Producers generally don't like me; directors do, generally. Convincing the producers is hard. They can't see the commercial value behind such a face, nor would they get a commercial value, necessarily - and I don't mean that in a good way or a bad way.

— Amanda Plummer

You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you more miserable and get a good take.

— Shirley MacLaine

✗Opposing Perspectives

As a director/writer/producer, all you ever want is to work with actors who make you look better, who make the work you do seem as good as it can be and even better than it is.

— J. J. Abrams

If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance.

— Trevor Nunn