Quotes About Creativity

Well, this is the second time I've done New Directors.

Sometimes the directors were afraid of what they brought out of me.

I'm actually one who will encourage directors to cut my lines.

Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.

I've worked with very few directors who've asked of me what I asked of myself.

I worked for a lot of directors.

I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films.

Where else do you find great directors? Acting is one of the places.

I like to just work with great directors.

I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.

Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such freedom.

I would love to work with Cameron Crowe; he's definitely one of my favorite directors.

I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.

I think today there are too many directors taking themselves seriously; the only one capable of saying anything really new and interesting is Luis Bunuel. He's a very great director.

I think actors do make really, really wonderful directors.

I want all my films to look distinctly different, like some other directors I admire. But in a way, I can't really take myself completely out of the movies I make.

I'd worked with directors who wouldn't collaborate. Then I've also worked with directors who didn't really know what they wanted. I knew I didn't want to be either one of those guys - or girls.

I want to act, I want to write, and I need to follow good directors.

I get to meet different directors and different people.

There are casting directors with lots of imagination, but also some with not as much imagination.

As a director, you never get to watch other directors work, and you also don't get to collaborate with other directors that much.

The question I always ask is: 'Where are all the women directors in America?' You know, where's the female Martin Scorsese, the female David Lynch?

I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.

Rock n' roll is dirty, and it's bad, and it's either clever or it's not clever.