Quotes About Director

As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.

For me, the audition is always the hardest part of the whole process. Once you get on set, once you're in costume, you're with the director, it's so much easier to get in the headspace.

Rob Hardy is such a great director.

I went to Cal Arts and AFI, and I worked on 'Bonfire Of The Vanities.' I got this grant from the Academy to be Brian De Palma's apprentice director. And it was such a harrowing, disillusioning, awful experience.

I was creating characters early. People didn't beat me up. I scared them. I hated authority. I could also get people to do things; I was quite the early director. I could make people laugh enough to get their defences down - and then brainwash them.

The best compliment for a director is that an audience hates their films.

When we were shooting for 'Jatt & Juliet 2,' the director, Anurag Singh did not tell us that this was going to be a sequel. The only brief given to us was that, 'go and have fun on the sets.'

It was Howard Hawks who changed my life.

The director needs to have a vision and clarity in his mind. It's not enough to know the story, he or she should have the knowledge and efficiency to execute it articulately.

If a director can't figure out what they might get from me or whether he or she wants to work with me based on what I've done, then I can't tell them anything more than what they don't know already.

Well, I kind of did the math in my head when I was like, 9. I was like, 'Well, if I want to make films' - because I want to be a director - 'I could just go on a film set and learn there.' And then I ended up falling in love with acting and the set and making friends all the time. And so I've just been doing that ever since.

I act once in awhile if something comes up that seems fun. I like to do it - it's a lot of fun because there's no responsibility. You let other people have the headaches. The director has all of the headaches.

I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.

I'm a director, but I gotta have the hair, the makeup and the heels. My mother would be appalled if I didn't dress up.

For a director, a musical is a special kind of hell.

When you make your first film, there is a hell of a lot to think about, and you've got to have a gut understanding of your material.

There's a heresy which is perpetuated by film school that to be a great director you have to write your own stuff.

When I was going to film school, before film school, my hero was David Lynch.

Clint Eastwood has always been a hero.

An established film director can just pick up the phone and say to a star, 'Hey, are you interested in doing a commercial?'

The director will be like, 'Hey, great take. Do you want to see the playback?' And I'm like, 'Definitely not.'

The director does not have anyone to blame but himself. He or she cannot hide behind anybody. If a film is a hit, everyone gets the credit, but if it flops, only the director can be blamed.

I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway.

I loved 'Highway.' It was amazing. I have watched Imtiaz Ali's other films, too, and he is one of my favourite Bollywood directors, besides Vishal Bhardwaj and Mani Ratnam.