Quotes About Director

In music, what is very important is temporality of space and length, based on the breathing space the director gives the music within the film, by separating the music from various elements of reality, like noises, dialogues... That's how you treat music properly, but it doesn't always happen this way. Music is often blamed, but it's not its fault.

It's nice, because after you've worked with various directors and producers enough times, they start to know your voice and what you're capable of.

A few years back I was asked if I would go and meet a director and his various acolytes, and it occurred to me halfway through the meeting that what I was doing was auditioning. And I thought, 'Well, hang on buddy. I've done half a century of this.'

My dad battled various financial mishaps for years before achieving success as a stunt director, but my parents ensured that my brother and I knew all about the family's struggle. We knew from where each piece of furniture came from.

'Analyze This' is a good movie because Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal are really good. But without the material to put on the play, of course, they couldn't be good. For me, it starts with the writing. I always think that the writer is doing the vast majority of the director's work, in a sense.

I'm supposed to be the director of a television company, but I've only ever seen that company as a vehicle for making the kind of programmes we wanted to make, getting our ideas on the screen.

I basically went from finishing 'Venom.' I had a week off with my family. And then went straight into prep on 'Zombieland 2.'

The director of 'Independence Day,' 'Godzilla' and 'The Patriot' has certain attributes, all of which are given full vent in 'The Day After Tomorrow.' He's crude, stupid, slick, cornball, predictable, laughable, relentless, trivial and, the sum of all these, ridiculous. He's never made a movie you could believe and he still hasn't.

I've directed things that other people have written before, and I've written things and given them to other directors. So I'm very versatile in terms of that, and I enjoy all of it.

Everyone that knows me already know that I rarely stray from my black jeans, black T-shirt and a black jacket - tailored or leather. I like to have a uniform and one that's versatile. I'm a very hands-on Creative Director, and I need to feel comfortable and be able to move between both casual and more formal attire at the same time.

He considers the theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander an amputated version of what his original film was, and he doesn't really like the shorter film.

I WAS SITTING in one of our director's scuffed chairs next to a man who clearly knew me, since he'd nodded with some familiarity when I entered. I couldn't, however, place him beyond his being a federal prosecutor. About my age—forty—and short, a bit doughy, with hair in need of a trim. A fox's eyes. Aaron

Hence, once the director calls cut on a take, May will often roar, 'Get me pussy,' and Munn will appear with the furiously mewing orb of animals. This is not to be mistaken for anything else. He's not Donald Trump.

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together to create what they need.

That was okay [ working with George Clooney]. One of these days I'll work with a good director.

I learn a lot from every director that I work with. I sit on set and watch them, every one.

After directing movies, I respect any director in this world, because making a movie as a director is tons and tons of work.

When I do a film, usually I work from my director. That's my boss. The director is interpreting the writer's vision, and we all interpret it, and they create their own vision as well.

I try to offer as much as I can to the director so he has as much to work with as possible to create the character that, really, he wants to create in a sense.

I really hope that I get to work with Chris [Nolan] some day.

Every director works differently but one thing's important: they must have a vision. If they don't have a vision I don't care how they work.

I'm just trying to find a good project. Work with a good director, someone I really admire. Find a good role.

It's so hard to find a director who, when you look at their body of work, you like everything.

As a 25 year director of a non-profit program I began to see the need to shift from only doing projects/programs to also doing policy work.