Quotes About Director

Mainstream or budget films don't matter to me. What matters is the script, the director and the part, not necessarily in that order though.

I love watching movies. I am a big movie buff.

I didn't have a burning desire to be a writer or director - writer probably more so, certainly not a director.

He was an amazing - John McTiernan really was an incredible director, probably the best I've worked with because he constantly busted me when he wasn't getting what he wanted.

I try to choose characters that are very different; I think I have succeeded in that. A big role or a small one does not bother me at all. What matters is that I should have a rapport with the director.

My father Kamran Khan was a successful producer, director and actor in B-grade films.

Due to God's grace and a good director, I became successful.

A music director cannot and should not be chosen on the basis of a first date. It is not so difficult to make a good impression with a single appearance, usually containing some of a conductor's party pieces, works they have performed successfully many times before.

Lots of people said that I have been a comic actor for such a long time, but as a director I was very serious.

I'll tell you one thing. I've never heard a director saying that the dailies suck.

I think, when you're a director, you get sucked into your project whether you like it or not, right?

It's kind of interesting to be a director who is all of a sudden being an actor playing an agent. This is my whole world!

When then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sued me in 2003 over my stewardship as a director of the New York Stock Exchange, the NYSE's legal expenses were more than $100 million, which made it perhaps the priciest litigation in the state's history.

I think as an action director; it comes kind of naturally to me to a certain extent, because I've done so much action myself - as my MRIs would suggest!

In 1977, I wrote a series of poems about a character, Black Bart, a former cattle rustler-turned-alchemist. A good friend, Claude Purdy, who is a stage director, suggested I turn the poems into a play.

Loveleen Tandon, the casting director of 'Brick Lane,' understood my capacity and suggested my name to director Sarah Gavron. The film has such universal appeal that given a chance I would like to remake it in Hindi.

I chose to dive into a pool of cold water in 'Ooty' though the director suggested that we use a stuntman. I was pleased with the applause but I took precautions.

My agent suggested me to EastEnders casting director, Julia Crampsie, who I already knew. I'm delighted that Julia said, He's not old enough is he?' My agent told her how old I really am and she said Oh'!

The director is the boss on the set. We don't take away anyone's creative freedom. There are many production houses which get into creative calls. I just give suggestions.

I made this film 'The Beach,' which didn't take place in a city, and it didn't really suit me.

If I get a good character, a suitable role, a good producer-director, only then will I do a film.

I'm better suited to be a director, I think. I see myself as the general author. I hate the word 'auteur,' because it sounds so solitary when filmmaking is anything but solitary.

Whenever rejected, I thought maybe the director saw someone better suited for that role than me. I didn't think of it as so and so is someone's son or relative who got preference.

I am better suited to be behind the camera. Frankly, I don't miss being an actor.