As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over..
[Martin Scorsese ] basically works just like any other director. You work the scene, you try to find what's best in it and make it work. That's what ….
I'm communicating with the directors of the Soviet companies, and I see that it is wrong, but when I go to the official discussions, they discuss we ….
Nancy has her vision and she's a formidable force to be reckoned with, and that's similar to most of the male directors I've worked with. The only di….
It doesn't matter if you work with an Oscar winner or if you work with an unknown actor. There is always a collaboration between the director and the….
But you really - I always think that a director has got to adapt to whatever the needs of the actor are. You know, so if you take someone like Eddie ….
I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to ge….
Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors..
If you have the right actors and you can give them the freedom to explore, you've done a lot of your work as a director..
Realizing that my surroundings were going to be built around me, the way that I performed, we helped the directors through the performance, to create….
I am open to keep on discovering new interesting projects, and little by little I have been coming across very beautiful projects with very affection….
I love working fast. I don't relish the director who wants to do 25 to 30 takes, or the actors who insist on doing 25 or 30 takes..
Producers generally don't like me; directors do, generally. Convincing the producers is hard. They can't see the commercial value behind such a face,….
You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer..
When your characters are really living they tell you what they do..
In my case, when you dive into a role, to do well and for you to do well in it, you have to put an enormous amount of faith in the director. But you ….
On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied a….
Directors love to do music, they've been doing that all along..
When Chris Nolan is your director you are like, "I trust that, I'm wrong.".
Being a writer-director can sometimes make you incredibly blinkered..
I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write..