Directors Quotes
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In relationships with a directors I want to be able to give and take, and I can't name what it is: respect, energy, investment in the task, focus, humor, intelligence, but I always feel responsible for taking the money.
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All directors should have to act and all actors should have to direct, so that they can understand all these key things that come into play with whether you can meet your day.
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A good actor's director, first of all, is prepared, so there's not an exorbitant amount of wasted footage.
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Be what we make, and not who we are.
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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 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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No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.
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Once there are more African Americans and Asian Americans behind the scenes as producers, writers, and directors, I think more inclusive casting will happen.
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Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often.
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Steven Spielberg is one of the most creative and successful directors and producers in the history of filmmaking. I have the highest respect both for him and for DreamWorks, and I look forward to many more years of continued collaboration.
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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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As a director, your job is to make sure no one for any reason is taken out of the film. Sometimes it's impossible and sometimes things don't come out the way you want them to, but I think you have to work really hard at making the world engrossing and details are a major part of that.
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But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in 'Rio Bravo'.
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With an inexperienced director, a lot of times the days go on to 14, 15, 16 hours. It goes horrendously overtime. And because of the lack of money, they just keep you there, regardless of the hours.
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Gotta watch out for directors.
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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.
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I never turned down anything and never argued with any producer or director.
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I love Malcolm Lee and jumped on the opportunity to work with him as a director.
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As a director, you just have to kind of like just get through the first project before starting on the next one.
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The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But when you're a director, you're shopping - you're picking this actor, you're picking this scene. It's like the most intense kinetic high-speed shopping of all time. You sit in a chair and it will all come rushing at you like a wind tunnel.
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Be collaborative. I've had some of my best experiences with directors who were able to sit down and have a conversation and ask me what I thought.
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The first must that any director has is to not force his public.
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I think new directors come with new perceptions, energy, and passion to win. They don't have to worry about an already existing image or budget that they have to recover.
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Alejandro Amenabar is a different kind of director than I lot of the directors I've asked for. He really asks you to enter his dream as opposed to, you know, a guy like Sidney Lumet or something is going to ask you to create a character almost like a documentary. He wants you to make the people really real and he's going to capture it like a documentarian.
