Quotes About Director

Each director is different. Clint Eastwood and Chris Nolan are completely different, and I need to adjust to the story and character and the director and just my duty as an actor.

A director in films is closer allied to the writer than anyone else.

It was okay but then I found myself in that position of being merely a screenwriter. And you are merely the screenwriter, and there's no way around it. You don't have the same clout as the director.

When you are in the biggest clubs, and you are fighting for the best players with a lot of money, maybe the work of a sporting director is not so difficult.

I'd like to be a director who gives my actors complete freedom while collaborating with them to find performances.

Certainly there is a lot of collaboration, but there is also a lot of clarity that has to be had in the vision that you have for the film when you come in as the director. Without that, there's no bullseye to be aiming for.

With most good scripts and good shows, they expect the actor to bring some of their ideas to the backstory of the character. It's always a good collaboration between the actor and the writer and the director to try stuff out during the process.

I think every actor would probably say that it's always a collaboration. And if you ask directors, they'll tell you that they expect the actors to bring something. They don't want to be thinking for everybody.

I mean, life is kind of like your own movie. You collect your characters to play your friends or acquaintances, your lovers. You're the casting director of your own life.

Chris Columbus was really interesting to watch how he works with children.

I think 'Main Hoon Na' is like the comeback of a Manmohan Desai film. Farah Khan made you laugh, cry and dance.

When a director is making a movie after four years, it's not considered his comeback. It should be same with actors.

After the blockbuster 'Magadheera,' I made a film with comedian Sunil as the hero. If I am interested in making a film - big or small - I will go ahead and make it.

I think I'm ready to bring my style to a comedic movie as a director.

I've always wanted to be a very commercial director, or I had dreams of making these movies into blockbusters. And with each movie, they tell me it's not that way.

I feel one shouldn't turn director unless one is compelled to tell a story.

I've worked with Farah Khan who is a competent woman director, and Farah and I had a great professional equation and we are still best of friends.

When a director you admire says that he wants to work with you, it's always a compliment, very good for your ego.

In the 1990s music was a beautiful collaborative process between the composer, lyricist and director. They would exchange ideas and magic used to happen.

But it can be tough for new composers as directors tend to block you out.

One of the major aspects of film composing is that it's not so much a musical thing as it is communicating your ideas with the director, who often does not come from a musical background.

No director wants to make films with stars. It is a compulsion for them.

I conceived the original 'Deus Ex' and was the project director on the game.

When you hear that you're going to be working with a first-time director, sometimes that can be a concern to people.