Quotes About Director

For me, 'Gulabo Sitabo' is a satire... I wanted to do satire and I think it's turned out exactly how I wanted it to be.

Scorsese is very nice. He's small; he's energetic.

I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?

All I can say is working with Ridley Scott is a dream come true.

If you have a screaming angry director, everyone else will be panicked as well.

What I do have to get across is the truth of the moment within the given scene. It's my job, as a director and screenwriter, to create the environment in which all those moments will come together eventually.

I like to write, and I would love to be a screenwriter one day and a director.

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

I think I have been stereotyped as an action director in Hollywood, so all I got were the action scripts.

I love reading different scripts and helping create different looks, different environments. Sometimes you go to meet a director over a particular script, and they'll say, 'I want you to do this because I want it to look like Shawshank,' and I'm like, 'Well, I'm not that interested in doing that again.'

My brother advises me on what kind of films to do, which directors to work with and which scripts have potential.

After listening to several scripts, I zeroed in on director Hanu Raghavapudi's script and that's how 'Lie' happened.

'Barton Fink' owed something to Roman Polanski. As a director, he always goes beyond the obvious narrative drift.

Ambition is important for any manager or coach, owner or director.

When you look at me see the father, the awesome dad, the author, film director, business owner, champion, friend, Hufflepuff beast.

The last thing a director needs is an actress who feels an ownership towards a particular character.

I've been accused, many times, as a writer/director, of my pace being too leisurely and too long.

In Hollywood there's no real material. They would send me stuff, but I hadn't even seen the director. If I don't see the director's eyes, I'm not going. I'm not even going to pack my bags.

When a comedian can turn hero and has the will power to work out for a six pack, he can easily fit into the director's scheme of things.

I like acting for myself as a director. I act and I know that I'll have a chance to have some say in what gets used and that I'll be able to give myself enough takes and be on the same page as myself about how the scene should play.

But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.

I think everyone's different but in comedy, I try to do my scene to make the director and the other actors laugh. If I can make them laugh and we have the same sensibility, then I'm on the right page.

Plays are not written but rewritten, and much of the rewriting takes place at the behest of the director, whose job it is to grapple with the myriad complexities of moving a play from the page to the stage.

When I was younger I didn't really know what a director did: I knew I loved movies and I figured the actors made it up! And then when you get to 12 years old you start thinking, What does a director do? It was really an organic beginning: this looks like something I want to do, I can't believe people get paid to do it!