Directors Quotes - Page 69

I've never done a movie in that genre, and I love a lot of those movies. I watched the director's [David Freyne] short film [The First Wave], which I loved. And the script was just so good. He's found this way to tell a new story.

But it's cool working with female directors because I'm a girl, so you do relate to them more. You can talk to them about other stuff like clothes and all that.

On the film where I didn't get along with the director, I just decided to not speak to him.

I have worked with another first-time director who was not that open, and it was probably one of the worst experiences I ever had, so my antennas are really out.

I guess I'm not jaded because I still believe that there are good films out there, and there are great directors, and there are great writers. It just takes a little bit more perseverance and a little bit more time to find [them].

I didn't have the problem of finding myself at 45 on the wrong course - I always wanted to be a film director.

When I'm filming a kill scene [as a director], I just get happier and happier as we chop up body parts.

Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore.

When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.

I don't think it's a prize when actors and directors or writers and actors work together more than once. You have a trust and a shorthand and a lot of times you even reach the point, where in the process, you don't even have to talk.

If there's a criteria that really gets me interested in a work besides any type of personal interaction with the theme, it's if I feel like this is the right piece of work for that director at that moment in their career.

The way I see it, when I go out as an actor, it should be on a type of film I'm never going to do as a director.

As my other obligations are beginning to take an inordinate amount of time, I have asked to step down as WMG's board chairman, effective January 31, 2012. However, I will remain a director of the company and in that way, continue my association with Warner Music and its extraordinary people.

Todd [Phillips] doesn't care. That's part of his genius as a director, he will say anything to anybody.

Well, 45-odd years of doing it, so we all pile up the things we like about directors and the things we don't like about directors. And sometimes they're very similar.

I do feel there's certainly some films where you can feel that the directors don't care about the genre and they don't care about their characters.

And people say it all the time: 'You're a celebrity.' No, I'm an actor. I'm a producer. I'm a director. I'm a toad. I'm roadkill. I'm anything but a celebrity.

Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films.

Sometimes things are nothing on paper, but a genius director turns it into something amazing.

More often than not, if you've got a good director and a good script you can't really go wrong.

When I do go to L.A., it is usually for a reason - to meet with a director or something - but I'm always so happy to go back to London.

You can have a great script, or a great director and a bad script, and get a great movie. Nothing really guarantees anything.

I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.

Sirk was every womans dream of a director.

I have always been a great fan of Peter Chan and many other great directors who specialize in anything outside of action.