As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers..
I'm first and foremost interested in the story, the characters..
It's dangerous for one actor to advise another one, especially when you're not in charge. On the set, I'm never gonna tell another person, "Here's wh….
I don't think you can be a director without a kind of sense of competitiveness..
I love animals. With animals you never know what you're getting. Everybody says don't mess with animals and little kids in movies but those are the f….
You hear stories about directors using manipulation to get actors to do certain things, but I think when you're working with professional actors, it'….
I started as a director, but I was too bored with actors. I preferred to act..
I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors..
At times, there are misunderstandings [during shooting]. Especially with green screen and not really knowing what it is that you're looking at, you r….
I started as a director and just fell upon acting..
With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them..
I certainly like the actor to have as much lee-way as possible. In the same way that director Bong was generous enough to let me create, you have to ….
I've done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading..
Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women..
Time management is a big part of the director's job..
This man (Bergman) is one of the few film directors-perhaps the only one in the world-to have said as much about human nature as Dostoevsky or Camus..
That's the greatest sin a director can commit; to make a film simply because he wants to make a film..
I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say..
Director and producers have to take all the risks they can. We developed this film with the possibility to create departing from a blank page and to ….
By the time May rolls around, I'm probably going to want to spend a month on an island. But if Steven Spielberg or Steven Soderbergh or any number of….
I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn't want to be told what to do. I had no ident….