Directors Quotes
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I'm not really a director or producer for hire. There's lots of big gigs out there, but I'm not looking to do that. Usually, when I'm directing or producing, I've written it myself. I'm not really trying to get on some big horse that's running through town. I just make my own stuff.
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When a director makes a mistake, people suffer. People suffer horribly sometimes.
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The funniest thing is that all the things every director goes through, I thought I could shortcut, but there was no getting around those issues.
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There are plenty of bad actors and there are plenty of bad directors. There are actors who will always be bad and there are good actors who you cry for because they're being badly directed or the material isn't good enough.
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I've turned down good directors before because I knew the part didn't speak to me and I've worked with less talented directors before because the part I had such passion for.
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As a director, you try to do things that are going to touch the human experience somehow, and emotions that mean something to people. You search for those projects and you hope to realize the potential in a project.
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I worked with the best directors - Martin Scorsese, John Huston, David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock. Alfred Hitchcock was great.
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I love directors who talk action as opposed to emotion.
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Nobody, except Russian directors, can truly reveal all the features of the Russian soul.
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I used to work for an NGO called Transitions Online, and I was their Director of New Media. I was a very idealistic fellow who thought that he could use blogs, social networks and new media to help promote democracy, human rights and freedom of expression.
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I'm one of the few directors that actually shoots a lot in camera.
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I love working with actors. If you cast the right person in the right part at the right time, they make you look like a better writer and director than you really are.
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I have a problem with writer/directors, personal. I can't work well with both of them on the set, if both of them are giving instructions. Writers tend to be in love with what they wrote. You can't always translate the words into the meaning, sometimes the meaning is better served without the words, difficult to make a writer to try to understand that. It gets, sometimes, tense.
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When people think of diversity, they think people of color, but it also means women, who are severely underrepresented as directors, writers and producers.
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At almost forty years old, I assumed my career on camera was over. And I was certainly given that message by all the TV managers and news directors who passed on me when I was trying to get a job back in the business.
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I was thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the writer from the artistic process. If we can just get rid of these actors and directors, maybe we got something here.
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I get to play a great character while working with great actors and great directors on a great show.
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I'd say I got three or four offers for films that had female directors, so in my career I haven't had that opportunity before. That's exciting.
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I have worked with a lot of great directors but my favorites are all entirely different from one another. They don't go about it the same way.
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I never turned down anything and never argued with any producer or director.
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In some way, the relationship between a director and an actor is personal.
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A lot of times, directors don't know how to speak to actors, or writers don't know how to communicate.
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Reviewers are certainly entitled to their own opinions. I've become buddies with enough writers and directors, and to be perfectly honest, the ones that have lasted a long time don't pay a lot of attention to the reviews.
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I think you have to have different tools for each job - you know producer is very different from a director and very different from an actor.
