I think that certain directors are better at choosing actors that match well with each other. And I have feelings about actors and who I think I'd wo….
Lyrical lecture, word architecture, Rap director, the best in my sector. Microphone cool chief, releasin the smooth speech... I get nasty with a p….
Maybe I have just a younger voice than many other directors..
We had a work session [in "Moneyball"] where about 30 scouts came in and we're all riffing. And after it, [director] Bennett Miller said: Look at the….
The thing I love about working with first-time directors is that it's always quite shocking how little difference there is between them and directors….
When you're a director, for two years or at least a year and a half, that's what your life is. So if you're gonna do it, you gotta be ready to do it ….
The program director at a radio station, by the way, is not the superstar. If he was a superstar, he'd be out creating songs, but he's not. But he wa….
I have such amazing memories [about The Hotel New Hampshire movie], because Tony Richardson was such an amazing director, and the subject matter was ….
You never know as a director what other directors do. Because you don't get to see what they do..
To the audience it doesn't really matter how much the director struggled with an actor. It's the result that counts..
The actor shouldn't edit themselves or be anxious. And the actors that I admire are always the ones who are inventive and their imaginative life in f….
I would love to work with Quentin Tarantino - he's my number one. My ultimate. I would love to work with Paul Thomas Anderson, Alexander Payne - Pedr….
A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders..
But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director. Whether I'm French or Australian or whatever, it's r….
There was a Russian director named Elem Klimov, who did his films during the communist days. They were constantly struggling with the authorities and….
Twelve years on sets watching directors, I've taken a bit from everybody and rejected a lot..
In film producing, there is an inherent tension between the director, the money and the producer, and that's what keeps it flowing and honest and acc….
The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to….
I think the perspective that small-town directors bring to films is very different..
(Sometimes when) someone's directing for the first time, they're afraid to include everyone - they have to prove they're the director..
Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control..