Quotes About Directors

I've always maintained that film directors understand architecture a hundred times better than architects do.

We used to do four or five films at a time and were not able to experiment with too many things. But, the heart was in the right place and everybody worked passionately. We had wonderful directors like Bimal Roy, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Raj Kapoor.

There's a lot of other movies I like, but I don't even pay attention to directors to tell you the truth.

Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.

Reviewers are certainly entitled to their own opinions. I've become buddies with enough writers and directors, and to be perfectly honest, the ones that have lasted a long time don't pay a lot of attention to the reviews.

I watch a lot of movies, I watch a lot of old movies, I watch a lot of great performances, and I watch a lot of great directors.

Though all actors do not make good directors, Dhanush is really one of the finest. He knows exactly how to direct an actor to extract the performance the way he wants it. Perhaps that is happening because he is a performer himself.

Now, many directors could and would say, So what? It's just a movie. You don't have to believe in giant monkeys to direct King Kong.

A lot of directors tend to manipulate actors' vulnerability to get what they want, and that can work.

Sometimes I call directors. Sometimes I just meet with them. It just happens. It's not that I'm pushy. It comes naturally. But I go ahead. I don't stay in my armchair, waiting for the phone to ring.

Now that I have started acting in Bengali films, I will look forward to working with various directors.

I was a big fan of Luc Besson and obviously Ridley Scott.

The biggest thing I learned is directors don't make a lot of money on a movie.

I know a lot of editors who are very bitter about the directors they work with. They feel they could have done a better job, and I say to them, 'Oh really? Why don't you go try - it's not easy.'

Every manager feels a responsibility to his board of directors and the public and the players.

The top Bengali directors in Bollywood know about me and the work that I have done. I have worked with everyone, from Anurag Basu, Pradeep Sarkar to Shoojit Sircar.

I tapped into my potential in Bengali films, which I don't think directors in Bollywood were able to understand.

Most movies are too brightly lit. I think that may come from a lot of directors having watched too much TV.

It's not so important to me where I work. A lot of good writers and directors and actors come out of Hollywood, so obviously it would be great to work there, but there's some great stuff coming out of Britain, so I'm going to see what comes from all angles.

History is rife with stories of directors who got so obsessed that their films went massively over budget - out of control.

I'm a movie buff.

There are really only a handful of directors who have a final cut clause in Hollywood. You only get that power if you've made a couple of hundred-million-dollar successes.

I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.

In the old days, before there was such a thing as film schools, directors learned the camera by watching other directors, and learning from their own dailies, and listening to the cameraman, and seeing what would work. Some of those guys could cut their movies in their head.