I just realized that I need to be a director - for two reasons. One, directors were already my heroes at this point. I wanted to; when I wanted to be an actor I wanted to work with this director. Not work with this actor, I wanted to work for this director.
I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff.
I was not born a size 2. I'm not skinny, period. I'm not willing to sleep with the director or step on somebody else's neck to get the job.
We really enjoy that, having a relationship with writers, developing material and getting a director, actors, that we have kind of that family kind of as a group we're going to do it together mentality in a project. Then the tough part is - so what actually goes has very little to do with us sometimes.
Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.
Making movies can be a creative exciting project for director and rest of staff.
My father was a television director and I always knew I wanted to be in the industry but I had thought my role was behind the camera as opposed to in front.
The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.
Force Majeure is a jolt. You won't know what hit you. Director Ostlund shifts gears from humor to psychological thriller with cunning skill.
I started as a director, but I was too bored with actors. I preferred to act.
There are some actresses who cannot function on the set without having a close relationship with their directors. Their way of communicating with the director is through intimacy. It doesn't necessarily have to do with any physical act; it has more to do with achieving a closeness that they find very valuable.
The relationship between an actress and her director is often a very close one.
I like working with a first time director. I'm more likely to work with a first time director than I am a second time director.
To me, one of the main things that a director does is create the tone of his movie.
A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy.
Every film I've ever worked on, and that includes 'Braveheart' and 'Trainspotting,' I've always witnessed a director having a breakdown. Every director will have a day, without exception, where they just can't do it anymore, they don't know what to say to their cameraman, their cast. It's the sign of real, physical exhaustion.
A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.
Richard Marquand, on Jedi, was very much an actor's director.
Steve Zaillian is just the sweetest. A very, very wonderful and interesting director.
When you're not gaping at Megan Fox enough to listen to what the director's saying, you can get some work done.
Most directors prefer to direct everything themselves. I thought I could on Lord Of The Rings, but very quickly found out that the sheer scale prevented it.
In practically every film you experience, you can see the director following the text. Illustrating the words first, making the pictures after, and, alas, so often not making pictures at all, but holding up the camera to do its mimetic worst.
The challenge to me as a director was for the audience to see the film as going on in a straight line, so that they did not sense all of these break-ups. I did not want a film to be a collage of all these images.
For me, each film, each script is like a little journey in itself, and I'm reinventing the wheel. It's like how do I make this film. That's part of the pleasure and that's why I'm not a normal professional director.
I miss that process of getting the script and reading it and working on it. Every actor has their own way of memorizing their lines, and the whole process of starting to work with the other actors and the director, and doing rehearsals, and going to the location, and going through wardrobe.
