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Smartest Actor/Directors in the Business?

posted 6 years ago by BillHicksFan (10649)
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Use any/many interpretations of smart. If you have video, even better!

Stanley Kubrick
Ingmar Bergman
Marlon Brando
John Cassavetes

[–] Kazak (2194) 6 years ago

Stanley Kubrick (obviously)
David Lynch
Yorgos Lanthimos
Jonathan Glazer
Guy Maddin
P.T. Anderson
Darren Aronofsky

(Can't think of any smart actors... ;)

[–] BillHicksFan (10649) 6 years ago

I was going to mention how directors are probably smarter on average, since they do the creating, sometimes the writing, but was wondering what would be said.

[–] croft_alice (12180) 6 years ago

James Cameron

[–] FredBurroughs (21872) 6 years ago

Paul Thomas Anderson, Ed Harris and Ethan Hawke strike me as very astute about their craft.

[–] godewey (16472) 6 years ago

Rohmer
Kieślowski

[–] BillHicksFan (10649) 6 years ago

I think a lot of the Italian neo-realist directors were very smart.

[–] godewey (16472) 6 years ago

Agreed.
I read an interview with François Truffaut where he talks about the French New Wave movement.
He said himself and Godard may be more well known but Rohmer may have been the best of the lot.
Not sure I can argue that point.

[–] BillHicksFan (10649) 6 years ago

I really like about 2 movies from each of those guys, but still have a ton I haven't seen..

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

James Woods has an IQ of over 200

[–] actionkamen (23176) 6 years ago

James Nguyen. He's pretty smart.