Quotes About Directors

The type of producing that I did for many years involved working very closely with directors.

I think I've always wanted to direct, but I didn't go to film school. I was lucky enough to work in movies, and I think those became my film school in terms of acting and watching directors work and also writing and co-writing and producing.

I think that what 'Oz' did is it spawned a great generation of television production. But people know its place in television and just in great dramas. It's the foundation of my career. Most producers, show runners, directors, and casting directors put me in movies based on my performance in that show.

Coming from the industry and maintaining contacts with producers and directors, I am very well aware that costs associated with movie production are a major factor in determining where films get made.

I have worked with several art directors and production designers who are just magnificent. Dave Getz, Paul Felix, Ian Gooding... just amazing artists, and I would say, if I had anything to do with it, I just pick good artists!

Every director works differently.

There are directors who don't cast you for the way you act but for the way you are, the way you behave around the dinner table.

The best actors are always the ones who've directed as well, as they understand all the problems you face.

A lot of our favorite comedies in general are usually directed by writers, whether or not they wrote the original script themselves.

For female directors, there's a whole other set of things we have to think about, particularly when we are casting men, because there are some actors who have never been directed by a woman. Crew members, too.

I would have a problem directing a scene like most directors do, in that TV style. I would get bored, I don't enjoy editing in the classic way.

Every director is completely different.

I am blessed to have got a chance to work with directors like Anurag Kashyap, Vishal Bhardwaj, and Nikhil Advani at such an early age.

There are no bad actors. There are only bad directors who cannot make their actors act.

I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.

Some directors I worked with didn't even know how to read a blueprint, understand a plan.

Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.

A lot of directors, they're creative, but they're different.

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

I feel terrible for directors of TV because all the episodes have to look the same. They make a great series for five or six years, and then when it's canceled, they can't break out on their own.

I decide intuitively what I want to do. When directors like Imtiaz Ali, Ayan Mukerji, Anurag Basu and Anurag Kashyap, who have stories to tell, come to me, why would I not be a part of it?

Most actors who direct do it because they've been directed by so many bad directors.

I'm not the kind of actress who asks a lot of questions of my directors unless it's something I really need to know.

There are some moments where you're so depressed, you cannot see the way, and you're like, 'Whatever. Bite me.' I think all directors feel that way sometimes.