Quotes About Film

When I'm directing a film, I can't do any more than appear in a song.

I think if more women had been directing when I was a child, I probably would have gone for directing first. But, as a child, all I wanted to do was make movies.

I say yes to a film depending on who is directing it.

No power on earth can ever get me back to directing a commercial film.

Given a choice, I prefer directing a play to a film.

I want to do directing and acting. I can do them at the same time - it's a challenge, but it's my dream.

I don't even consider directing Burt. I just say, 'Hey, Burt, the camera's here. Read the joke and let's get onto the next shot.'

As far as writing or directing a film, I've worked with enough people who have done that that I know it's just a whole other level of responsibility and chaos and murder that I could not see happening. For now, I'm just going to see what comes. I know what I like and what direction I have.

I don't write tracking shots in my screenplays or any camera directions, but I do try to give a sense of how the action is moving.

I never wanted to be a director.

If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.

I was a director and dialogue and acting coach.

I haven't worked with a director who is a crazy person at all.

I don't believe in director's cuts where you make things longer. The coolest thing was when the Coen brothers did a director's cut of 'Blood Simple,' and they made it shorter.

Karan Johar is absolutely an amazing director. I dream to work with Karan.

I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me.

In cinema, the leading player is the director.

Richard Marquand, on Jedi, was very much an actor's director.

Larry Kasdan is a great director.

As a director he was not that interested in Vader.

Mankiewicz was a brilliant director.

The director had come to Madrid to court me.

For a director, the most challenging scenes are the dialogue scenes.

The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors.