Quotes About Director

With a stage play, they can't cut a word; you can be in rehearsals every day, you cast it, you cast the director, too; the amount of control for a playwright is almost infinite, so you have that control over the finished product.

It's madness to hand in a script to a director, leave them alone, and for the director not to want the writer there with rehearsals and the shoot.

Sometimes films have no rehearsals - you don't have real rehearsals on the set because the day is so dominated by the schedule.

I've done three Broadway shows; once the curtain goes up, that's it. I mean, you prepare and you rehearse like crazy, but after opening night, the director's not there anymore, you know. He gives you notes during previews after each performance, but opening night, you're on your own.

I guess I'm used to TV where we don't really rehearse. You block it out, and then you just start shooting.

I like to rehearse before blocking.

Many other directors, they have lots of scripts and they never rehearse as much, and you never really have time to be a part of it. With Jean-Luc, you always had time to be a part of it. It's difficult to explain to normal people.

I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.

I wanted to reinvent myself as a director.

You can always hear a director saying, 'Well I don't really know what this piece is saying, so therefore, I reject it.' There are any number of things you can anticipate going wrong, and sometimes they go right. But I think the things you like most are the things that get rejected first. That's just how things work.

There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination on a film, then I get to show you my imagination in a big dumb character.

It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors.

Every relationship should eventually become a long-term relationship. Any director that I meet now isn't just a director. He's potentially a friend, and someone I can call to do a project that I want or that I have.

Having a director who is also an actor makes for that very relaxed way of working and it's empowering.

Rituparno is a very simple director. I have never seen Ritu shouting at anyone. The whole atmosphere on his sets is so relaxed that you don't feel that you are working.

As an actor, I felt nervous only during the release of my film. When I became a director, the anxious moments started once the editing work began.

We should release films without revealing the director's name, as his or her gender would not be a barometer to watch those films.

See I think we are nervous about every movie before it's release, irrespective of who has directed the movie.

When a film is made, its release is decided by its destiny. Nothing is bigger than that, not even me.

I have come to make Hindi films to cater to a certain kind of audience, which looks for entertainment. I feel my strength here as a director will fail if I ever try something experimental.

When I came to know that director Sujoy Ghosh wanted me for a role in a Hindi film, I was very surprised. I had never met him before.

I don't like directing that much to want a career as a director for hire. I like to have as much creative control as possible.

That's the great thing about being a director. You have your list of things you have to worry about and things you don't have to worry about. If you can hire someone or cast someone who equates to not having to worry about, it's great!

I think everything that I've done, I've been involved with for longer. Either you develop it from scratch, or you take something, and you develop it, and you work on the script, but I'm not sure how good I'd be at just sort of taking a piece of material and being a director for hire like that.