Directors Quotes - Page 74

Actors rarely stay in touch with directors after they've filmed together. We go back to real life.

I would love to be a fly on the wall watching other directors and actors to see what their process is like.

Nollywood is a genre, and not the entire Nigerian film industry. However none of the 'New wave' of directors in Nigeria would know what was possible without the Nollywood model, so I'm grateful to them for showing us that our stories are of interest to people other than Nigerians. I would describe myself as a filmmaker, period.

I tend to ... if I decide to do a job, want to be able to trust my director...

I love working with actors. I love visual things. I always intended to be a writer who directs and a director who writes.

What happens often is the script is written and once the director comes on board you have lots of conversations and it mutates again.

I never turned down anything and never argued with any producer or director.

There's only a few directors that can do what Emmerich does on an international scale and on an action scale.

The film is a direct mirror of the director. If your director doesn't know how to dress, there will be an aesthetic of the film that won't come through - whether it's in the costumes if he doesn't know exactly what he wants or the look of the film.

Adrian Lyne is such an incredible director.

I like doing commentary. As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things. I often like the technical commentaries myself.

As a director, you've got to have quite a few projects going because you never know which one will actually come together with the financing and get the green light.

Most of the time I've worked with directors who write their own scripts. The story is more important to me than the part. The project of the film has always been more important to me.

Be what we make, and not who we are.

Every director works differently.

Becoming artistic directors is an enormous responsibility and not one that we take lightly.

The lack of racial diversity and gender diversity and the lack of female directors - those are not fashionable issues. And they're not issues that reside solely within the film industry.

I've worked with acting coaches, I've been going out on auditions and meeting with casting directors. But I'm not known as an actress.

To suddenly be working with one of the top-10 directors in the world, plus the film was in China, I almost blurted out, "How much do I have to pay?" It was just like a dream come true. That was an amazing experience.

Playing Japanese characters and being in environments that are Japanese, like a character's apartment or whatever, if you have directors or art directors who just don't know what' s what with Japanese culture, then pretty soon something's just passed through. I've been through many times where I've pointed out the incorrectness of so much of what's been done to a set.

If someone suddenly lost their director the day before shooting and wanted me to step in, I'd be willing to. But I'd do brain surgery the same way. I'm always up for something new.

At times as an actor, it's often times unclear as to what the directors envision for a project.

Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so advantageous to go to a place that you already have a feel for, a literal and spiritual familiarity.

Even if I loved the script, the director has to be right because it's all about the filmmaker. It's their vision. They're the ones that go back into the editing room and reassemble the film.

That's how I am as a director - if somebody does a really good take, I can't help it, I'm not even aware of it. Actors really, really need positive reinforcement.