Directors Quotes - Page 70

I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story.

As an action director I always try to bring something fresh and new.

Hillary Clinton is guilty, of all the things that Director [James] Comey stated at his press conference and Congressional hearings, and far more. He stated many things, but it's far more and he knows that.

I get involved with projects based on three parameters - the script, the actors involved and the director.

Stallone is a pretty tough director. You don't mess with him.

I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors.

As a director, I never feel that I have the answers.

My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.

When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there.

I don't know what it is, exactly, but there's a negative drag on film sets after the second week or so, a mutinous vibe because the infinite capacities of the directors and everybody else become quite finite and everybody's under the gun and it becomes work.

A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty.

If being an attractive woman got you attention for directing, then the entire best director category would be comprised of models. To me, that is just the most ludicrous connection that you could make.

It is great to work on different scripts with different directors who have different styles. You get so much experience from that.

I know, as an actor, I don't like sharing everything with the director. And it's fine if they don't with me.

Realizing that my surroundings were going to be built around me, the way that I performed, we helped the directors through the performance, to create the world that we were going to be seen in. I was very fascinated with that.

The foreign-language Oscar is something that doesn't go to the producer or the director; it goes to the country.

Michael Winterbottom is one of the great directors of this century.

When I met Quentin [Tarantino], he told me what every actor wishes from any director. He said, "I've been through a Demián Bichir marathon. I've watched everything you've done." Most of the time, they don't even know what you've done.

I’m an actor who’s accustomed to bringing a lot of stuff to the table, and you have to be ready because some of them will be accepted and some of them will be rejected. Then you need a generous, free, fearless, loving director like Tarantino to allow you to take those risks.

I write mostly as a director. That's why my screenplays are very detailed. So I get into the images I see. I like that.

As a director, you always want things to look good. You're always trying to make things look tidy. That's what we're all trained to do.

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That excites me, working with really excellent people, be it wonderful directors or actors or cinematographers and especially writers. My work life is going to a set and having these great experiences and coming home shifted by them.

Rewriting the negative beliefs you have learned is the essence of becoming the director of your life.

We're producing a movie now, 'The Onion' Movie, and it's very difficult for me to be on the set. If I'm not right in the trenches, it's very difficult for me to watch another director, because I'm not involved and it's not exciting.