Quotes About Director

My father said he will always support me but just not as an action director. It is a deal between both of us. He is an inspiration because he is a self-made man. I want to set that same example for my kids. I will fight it out.

Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility.

I'm not an art director; I'm just not. I've always been somebody who has a sensibility that I hope is the same sensibility of others.

I'm not a very sentimental person, so you're not going to find schmaltzy scenes in my movies.

'Evil Dead 1' was never supposed to have a sequel.

Yes, Luv Ranjan and I have a sequel in mind for 'De De Pyaar De.'

I didn't direct any of the 'Saw' sequels, but people thought I did.

Cronenberg's a lot of fun, and that a lot of people don't know watching his movies. He doesn't take himself seriously. He's still reinventing himself.

I remember my very first audition for a film. I was in Seattle. They were taping the session, and I just went crazy. The director finally said, 'Zoe, what are you doing? The camera's right here. Just talk to me.' And it took that director saying that to me to change everything.

Of course there are some actors that are better than others and performances that are better than others, but they're always embedded in the greater film. They are mediated through the work of so many other people: the director directs, the lighter sets the scene, the editors edit, the music gets put to it.

I have an image of Shanghai, which is quite different from other directors, I think. The story of Shanghai should happen in back alleys.

I was shocked when Raj Kumar Santhoshi approached me for 'Ghatak.'

When I'm shooting, I don't care who the star is. I have an actor playing a part, and I'm serving the script, not serving anyone's career.

The very first picture that I did, the director came up to me on the street - I was 14 at the time - and asked me if I would be in a short film that he was doing called 'Pigen og Skoene,' which means 'The Girl with the Shoes,' which is a funny title but that is how it is.

I've worked with some of the great cinematographers. So I'm always watching what they do and I'm watching how the director composes his shots, just because I find it interesting as an actor; you're trying to help them out as well.

It is awkward to see a director on the screen.

I can't put much weight into whether the public likes me because the more important thing is that, as an actor, I can truly say that there's not a single director or actor who I've worked with who'd have a bad thing to say about me.

Going into my second film as a director, it's night and day of what it was like going into my first film. It doesn't matter what you know in your head and what you've been taught until you're there and doing it; it's a whole new ball game.

I acted in 'Oomakkuyil' under Balu Mahendra's baton.

'Wake Up Sid' was a very special script. It was director Ayan Mukherjee's first film and it was beautifully written.

Nothing suits a director any better than to hop on a train with his company and go somewhere, no matter where it is, as long as he can get away from the studio. —William Fox, December 27, 1917

Does every conversation with you have to be the director's cut?

For me it was more than passion... it was more like an obsession to become a director.

I couldn't be a director because I couldn't put up with the actors. I don't have the patience. Why, I'd probably kill the actors. Not to mention some of the beautiful actresses.