Quotes About Director

I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director.

I can't act. I simply must be myself, do the things that seem natural to me. When I get with a director who wants me to act, I'll be lost.

As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director.

One thing I know is that I don't want to be a director for hire, making genre films.

If everyone's comfortable, you can pretty much make any kind of movie that the director wants.

The first film is everything you want to say and how you want to say it. Lots of directors will do that and do it really well, but the second film is not so easy.

As an actor, you're a color of paint on someone else's palette. But as a director, it's your canvas and you make the painting you want to make.

When I was a kid it was much more difficult. You're trying to understand what the director wants. It's a learning process. Now, you go in and it's more of a collaboration.

It's a collaborative art form where we can both learn something from the other. That's what you want from the relationship with a director.

As a director, you have to go in with a really, really, really clear picture of what you want. That's the point of my commentaries. It's so difficult because you're the harshest critic.

Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.

When you can find a strong character and a director that does want to protect the integrity of all characters, female and male, then you have a good deal.

Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which isn't very common. I like to do my characters, if it's not specific in the script, as myself.

I'm not really a guy who wants to be a director, anyway.

I've watched other directors as an actor and I picked up little things here and there about cameras, [but] I wouldn't consider myself the guy you'd want to hire to do Star Trek.

There were movies that always made me want to be a director. You see brilliant scenes and the way the emotions were handled. I thought, I'd really like to do that.

You pick projects for the part, the director, and the script. I just want to do different, interesting stuff.

I think a good director can embrace any genre and it's the kind of thing where you always want to do something different. You always want to challenge yourself.

You realize as a director that when you are cutting a film, you want to have alternatives. You need color and choices. You don't want four takes that are identical.

When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that director's vision, and I'm totally open for that.

I saw Alien when I was 8 years old. To me, it was like a combination of Jaws and Star Wars and that's the movie that made me want to be a director.

The idea that a film is created in the editing room - it's only a certain kind of movie that's made in the editing room and it's not one that I really want to see.

I believe that design must be integrally wedded to editorial content. Some people read images, others read words, but most of us read both. So the overall design, art, photography, text, and sometimes even the typography should be, in the best of cases, considered "content." Hence the art director's content must complement the editor's content.

Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.