The lack of racial diversity and gender diversity and the lack of female directors - those are not fashionable issues. And they're not issues that re….
When you work with directors who really love actors, who love their contribution, it feels amazing. But sometimes when you work with directors, you f….
I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director..
You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director..
Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director..
As soon as you start making a film that's expensive then the studio wants total control over all elements of it because they want to get all their mo….
I think it's possible to be free in a big production. It's the eye of the director and the actor and the story..
I've been able to work with great directors in Israel..
The best directors I've worked with, they all have the same thing in common. They're the first to say, 'I don't know.' If you ask them, 'How are we a….
I always have directors who are somewhat frustrated because they'll reference a beautifully obscure film from the '50s or '60s or '70s, and I've not ….
Any great director is also someone who is incredibly intelligent about whom they hire around them..
My whole family is very artistic - my uncles are all actors and theatre directors..
You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script..
Big Fish was the first movie that we worked on together, and I had already written it. We had another director, but that director didn't do it. So, i….
I guess I probably see myself as a director. If I had to choose, I think that that's the aspect of the process that I'm most excited by..
Curiously enough, I was one of the first to have some say in Hollywood. By sheer accident, I had four successes in a row in the early 30's and, altho….
I feel like a good director provokes you to ask questions about your character, but doesn't answer them for you..
In some way, the relationship between a director and an actor is personal..
Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror..
I had one well known director who kept saying, "Now Clint, this is what ...." And I'd say, "I know. I read the script. I'm the one who cast you as th….
The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate..