I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director..
When I came to England, the first director I met was Charles Sturridge, who told me, 'You speak like somebody out of the 1950s..
I like to audition for good projects because if it's a good project, it's an opportunity to get in front of a casting director..
My ideal role would be the lead in a film with a director that I really appreciate and admire..
During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable de….
The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conduc….
Now, before you make a movie, you have to have a script, and before you have a script, you have to have a story; though some avant-garde directors ha….
The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate. When you communicate comfortably, regardless of what you're saying, it can alwa….
There's good directors and bad directors. Some of the critics are really conscientious and really try to do what they can popularize the work or to e….
I love being on set, because I've basically grown up on a set. And now I love to contribute as a director and help steer the ship, if you will..
The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you..
On working with director Werner Herzog: I have to shoot without any breaks. I yell at Herzog and hit him. I have to fight for every sequence. I wish ….
It's really hard as a screenwriter, you feel like you have a vision and then you turn it over to a director and you have to let it go..
The theater audience is the ultimate teacher, instructing the actor on the degree to which he has executed both the author's and the director's inten….
I started working with James [Schamus] early on, and my role as an executive producer was more about being involved in the conversations of putting t….
I am not funny. The writers were funny. My directors were funny. The situations were funny… What I am is brave. I have never been scared. Not when I ….
This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, the….
When you do a rewrite, it's really about serving the director's vision, and what the director needs to go into that script..
[Out To Sea] began a relationship I had with [director] Martha Coolidge for a few years that was wonderful, and she certainly cast me in the best rol….
The director, of course, was Bob Fosse. But again, I worked with my father to prepare for the role..
Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied..