Directors Quotes
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I think since I did Monster I really started understanding how hard it is for first time directors. I think there's a lot of great stories out there, but it's high risk.
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I never turned down anything and never argued with any producer or director.
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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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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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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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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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Gotta watch out for directors.
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All I want for my career is I want to work with the best directors and I want to be treated like a Caucasian man would be.
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It's always fun to get to do independent film because I believe that that's the life blood of film. It's about writers and directors who truly have their own vision, and that's hard.
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For some directors, I'm the actor from hell.
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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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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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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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Be what we make, and not who we are.
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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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I love Malcolm Lee and jumped on the opportunity to work with him as a director.
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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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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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A good actor's director, first of all, is prepared, so there's not an exorbitant amount of wasted footage.
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Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.
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I will always have a child in me. That is what Pete Jackson has got, what a lot of the directors I have worked with have. It is about knowing how to have fun and that is something I always want to hold on to.
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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.
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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.
