I'm actually one who will encourage directors to cut my lines.
As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over.
I think of myself as a meat-and-potatoes kind of director.
Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.
So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals.
I'm not a betting woman, but I have $50 on Secretariat with an old director friend of mine.
When I look around and see how aged cartoonists continue to work on their manga and how movie directors create new movies all the time, I understand that they would never retire. And by the same token, I guess I will still be making games somehow. The only question is whether the younger people will be willing to work with me at that far point in the future.
I like to think of myself as a fairly educated human being, but I'm a very uneducated actor when it comes to movies, directors, producers, actors for that matter.
And when I have lived elsewhere, every two weeks I have to fly back to LA. Even New York directors go there to audition. So I have to be there to a degree.
Sometimes a director is making three films. Perhaps he is shooting a film in Madras and a film in Bombay and he can't leave Madras as some shooting has to be done, so he directs by telephone. The shooting takes place. On schedule.
The director was only invented in the nineteenth century. So directors have only been around for 200 year,s and playwrights have been around since Sophocles and Euripides.
Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.
As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate.
I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time.
I am not a master-class director. I am not a teacher. I am a coach. I dont have a methodology. Each actor is different. And on the film set, you have to be next to them all.
They offered me that film before I did Frida and I said, no, I'm not capable of directing. Then after seeing Julie direct, I was inspired by it. She motivated me to do it, because we don't have role models as woman for directors.
Any great director is also someone who is incredibly intelligent about whom they hire around them.
When you work with directors who really love actors, who love their contribution, it feels amazing. But sometimes when you work with directors, you feel like youre in the way.
In the best of all possible worlds, directors would obsess about the quality of their storytelling, and not the details of their technical methods.
Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such freedom.
I had a hard time watching "Wolf Creek." It is a film with one clear purpose: To establish the commercial credentials of its director by showing his skill at depicting the brutal tracking, torture and mutilation of screaming young women. When the killer severs the spine of one of his victims and calls her "a head on a stick," I wanted to walk out of the theater and keep on walking.
As a producer, I probably am a little stronger than most, since I was a director originally.
Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development.
That was the good thing about having different directors [on series]. You had to stay on your toes.
Directing, I just feel comfortable. I know what I want. I know what I want from my crew. I lead by example. I have limitless energy as a director.
