Quotes About Director

If you want to be a director, work with writers and find different ways of telling stories with film, then do a course. This way you can consolidate what you've learnt and use the course to go further.

Rod Lurie is one of the most wonderful directors I have had the pleasure to work with. He shoots like Clint Eastwood: no fuss. When he gets it, he knows it - one or two takes.

I grew as an actress, and I feel I gained a lot, whenever I have worked with any great director in the past.

Any artiste would die to be a part of a film like 'Gandhi My Father.' Director Feroz Abbas Khan had a very clear vision about what he wanted to make.

With 'Family and Loyalty,' I didn't already have an idea for that video. So I called Fab Five Freddy. I wanted to get a director that I didn't have to explain Gang Starr to and he was with it.

Whatever understanding I have of filmmaking is because of my stint as an assistant director on 'Gangs of Wasseypur.'

Gary Ross is amazing.

I love a couple of Fulci things. I just had a gas watching them. It's not what I would do, but I loved watching them. They were fun.

When a director shifts gears as often as does Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, the man behind the emotionally rich debut film 'Amores Perros,' you may wonder if he knows what he wants.

I loved being in the room with Mamet as a director - he is the most generous, funny, delightful person to work for every day.

I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.

Pete Docter's a genius isn't he?

Comedy is one of the hardest genres. You can tell if it's working or not. If the director is convinced of the vision, you have to have faith in that.

I think it is best that if you are the writer you just leave the director to it. With the caveat that you state, 'Be gentle with the script. And if there are changes, consult me.'

I was fascinated by the story of FW Murnau, one of the most famous directors in Germany, where I come from.

David Cromer, from Chicago, I think is the most gifted young director in America.

The director's job is full of all sorts of annoyances and details - like how many cars are on the street. Ugh. I don't want it. I like my gig. And I feel that for the next 30 years or so I can keep learning more about it.

I am glad to be in demand as a director.

If you're an actor, you have to look spiffing. But as the director, you don't need to look so glamorous.

I had to get a job, and of course, the job was 'The Godfather.' That made me be something I didn't know I was going to be. I became a big-shot director.

Lee Marvin was my godfather and a very close friend of my father's. My father directed the very successful 'Point Blank' in which Lee Marvin starred.

I was in a commercial when I was three. My godfather was a director and a producer of commercials. He took me in along with his kids and I couldn't remember my lines. I giggled my way through the commercial and they kept it.

I don't know how you can tell a good actor in the movies. I really don't. I think you simply just do the part and hope to God that the director has a good cutter and a good editor, and it'll all get cut and put together so that you look good in it.

What a good actor brings to a script is something, sometimes, even directors can't imagine. The director should always have the last say though.