Director Quotes
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Kabir Khan is a director who goes out of his way to make his actors comfortable. He's very chilled out. He makes the environment on set very casual and friendly.
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I like to call myself the 'director of family and business affairs,' ... Your overall job is child care, housework -- and business.
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My character in 'Batman v Superman' isn't supposed to be Japanese, but director Zack Snyder said he'd seen me in 'Wolverine' and had to get me in the film somehow. Hearing that was like music to my ears.
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I don't have a director. The audience directs me.
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Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. 'From Here to Eternity' must have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann.
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I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.
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I love animals. With animals you never know what you're getting. Everybody says don't mess with animals and little kids in movies but those are the funniest things because you can't be in control. I like to lose control as a director.
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I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director.
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I love Ben Affleck so much. He's an amazing director.
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Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a studio-approved director, your chances of ever making your own film again are zero. You make the films that the studio wants you to make.
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I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.
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Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.
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That's how I am as a director - if somebody does a really good take, I can't help it, I'm not even aware of it. Actors really, really need positive reinforcement.
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On the clothes front, I have a designer who sits with the director for each film to chalk out a look for me based on the script.
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I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.
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Being an actor really, really strengthens me as a director. There's just a certain type of understanding that comes from having been there and knowing how much is really being asked of actors that helps me.
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I suppose where I am sort of reflects the work I have chosen to do. Are there occasional frustrations because I can't work with a certain director because it's a big studio movie, and I don't have enough of a studio profile? The answer is yes. But generall... generally, I have the career I have chosen myself.
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I'm such a fan of Daniel Waters, who wrote the script, and also Mark Waters, his brother, who directed. 'Vampire Academy' has, I think, an iconic director.
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director.
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After I completed the project for BCG, I was offered the position of Director of Marketing for Ozon.ru.
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A lecturer once told me I could never be a director. I was 16. I believed him.
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I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.
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I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.