Directors Quotes - Page 33

The first film is everything you want to say and how you want to say it. Lots of directors will do that and do it really well, but the second film is not so easy.

I think that you can't make a movie without a script. But you also can't make movies without actors. You also can't make movies without technicians. And there has to be just one person in charge of everybody, and to me that one person is the director.

I still think that movies are amazing; I respect actors and directors.

I'd like to think every director I've worked with has fallen in love with me, I know Dorothy Arzner did.

There are many amazing female directors that made work in more skewed times, so we should be thankful for the boundaries they pushed through.

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.

The worst is when I talk myself into something. Sometimes you take things because you want to work with a certain actor, or you want to work with a director, even if the script or the part's not that great.

I adapt to directors, I don't like making directors adapt to me. If I'm with Clint Eastwood then I'll do two takes, if I'm with Fincher I'll do 50 - though the thought of that sounds horrible.

Joe Mantello is the uber director. I wrote him a card tonight saying basically, 'Will you adopt me?'

If everyone's comfortable, you can pretty much make any kind of movie that the director wants.

Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel.

It would be horrible to be micro-managed! I don't think directors can really micro-manage people. It's just impossible.

It's quite liberating to have a director stand beside the camera and say: "Do this now, and do that now..." It's also a bit sordid but it liberates an actor, I think.

OK, the director makes the movie. But some movies can't get made without someone like me in them.

To be a great director, what does it mean exactly? It's not only about a great director, but also about being able to rely on the very special chemistry that goes between them. It not only has to be a great director, but the great director has to make his relationship to you, the actor, very special.

I depend on good editors and a good director. It's up to the way they shoot it, the lighting and all that. I like how small you can be on TV.

If you're sounding right, you're probably walking right, and vice versa. If you get the footwork right - if you get even one line right in a rehearsal, the director will say, do you know when you said that, it was exactly the character. You were - really landed on it.

When parents watch scientist after scientist describe the dangers of GM foods, I wouldn't want to be a stubborn food service director trying to stand in their way.

I was lucky to have my wife as the art director, and it turned out to be quite something - a great success. I'm very proud of it.

The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes I'm the woman.

It's possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can't make a good movie from a bad script.

As a consumer of entertainment, as a director, I'm always interested in questions of identity and who someone is and how they're perceived and who they are versus who they thought they'd be.

The test for me, when I read other people's scripts, is whether I feel like there's something about me that is the best person to tell this story. I have a pretty high bar for myself. There's a lot of scripts that I read and think, "Oh, this is great, but I think there are 50 other directors who could bring this to the cinema."

The collages I never wanted to sell. I thought it was a very private thing, so I kept the collages. Then, in the end, I had a big collage in the Pinault Collection in Venice and the director of the [Centre] Pompidou said, "Did you make big collages like this in the '60s?" I said yes, so he came to the studio and said, "Let's make an exhibition in the Pompidou."

I'm not interested in making movies only with female protagonists. I think it's ridiculous to think that a female director can't direct men. That makes no sense to me.