Directors Quotes - Page 10

If you're creative, they let you be the showrunner, producer. The first thing my partner and I did as producers was hire ourselves as directors - because who else would hire me?

The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet.

I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.

Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.

I think a good director casts a film so that the actors bring a lot to the table.

You are the director of your own life story. Don't cast idiots or people will walk out during your 2nd act.

There are times when directors just don't know what they're doing.

Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases.

You can't see any movie nowadays really without it having some sort of CGI treatment, albeit whether it's a creature or an environment, something like that. To make a point, sort of poetically in that case, but clearly it was a drama and how do you approach it? Well, I think what you're supposed to do is what the text dictates. What you bring to it and everything you need to know should be there, and pay attention to your director.

Hollywood needs more women directors, and Mama Ava needs a carafe and a half of that sweet vino divino.

I am lucky, that is all. Lucky because there are a lot of people - producers, directors, people who buy tickets - who put confidence in me.

For me, creatively, I'd suffocate if I played the same thing, over and over again. I want challenges. I want to sit down with a director and be like, "I've never done this before, but it's going to be exciting. It's scary, but really thrilling, so let's do it!"

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high - you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.

It's a roll of the dice when you're a first time director so I prefer to work with people that know more than I do, but that happens less and less as you get older.

When I work, I work very hard. So I look to work with people who have that level of dedication. And I depend on that from everyone. From the director to my crews that I work with.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.

I try to just make what I want to make or what I would want to see. I try not to think about the audience too much.

Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.

I've acted with all types, I've directed all types. What you want to understand as a director, is what actors have to offer. They'll get at it however they get at it. If you can understand that, you can get your work done.

Good directors can bring certain things out of you, with their intensity or gentleness or sensitivity or understanding. They can make an actor feel he can do no wrong.

In Europe, Henk Tennekes was dismissed as research director of the Royal Dutch Meteorological Society after questioning the scientific underpinnings of global warming.

My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.

If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly.