Quotes About 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 think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.

What's weird is that I work with these directors and then I start channeling them. I kind of turn into them a bit - which is cool when you're working with Clint Eastwood.

I like to just work with great directors.

Everybody just asks me 'Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?' First, I don't know. Second, I never dreamed about that; I just dreamed about making movies with Tarantino. So if I can make movies with a lot of amazing directors - yes.

Television is certainly a writers-led medium. They're the ones who are there, they're the ones that are conferencing or whatever, with directors coming and going.

Every director's so different. Everybody has their own modus operandi and I love getting to know different directors in the way they work. David O. Russell is very exciting to be with because he's got a mind like quicksilver.

I've been lucky to learn by playing all kinds of roles and watching all kinds of really good cinematographers, actors, and directors for many years before people were even aware of me in terms of audience.

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

Louis Malle is maybe one of my favorite directors, but I love Tarantino.

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

I have so much respect for television actors and directors. We're on set doing 16-hour days, and that's just what we do.

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.

First time films are hard. Even with some of the greatest directors, you look back at their first film, and you are just going, 'That movie is kind of bad.'

I've constantly done my best to get the best material I can get with the best directors I can get to direct me.

I'm very interested in directing actors - many directors direct cameras.

Working with actors really depends on the actor. Most of the directors I've worked with don't really know how to speak to actors, actually; some of the best directors don't.

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.

There are younger directors, and anybody over 30 is ancient to them, because they're not that old.

Actors know how to talk to other actors in a way that sometimes other directors just don't.

You work with great directors and terrible directors, and so you learn; you take what you think will work for you.

I guess once you've been acting for a long time, you glean the great bits of good directors and the bad bits from other directors, and you know the way that you would like to be directed.