I'm an enormous fan of Ron Howard. I mean, he's the most extraordinary director..
Having a good director is very important. It's crucial. When you do good work with a certain director, you want to work with them again, and hopefull….
I'm very shy. But as a director and especially a female director, absolutely: How I used to walk on the court is how I walk on set. And I have to - I….
In film school, I knew I wanted to be a director, but I found out pretty damn quickly that nobody was just going to hand me a script to direct..
My height can be a problem. A lot of directors and photographers are sometimes not happy because I'm pretty tall and especially if I work with short ….
It's such an intimate experience, being a director, artistically. It's deep and it's satisfying and it's wonderful, on so many levels, but it's also ….
I don't have a director. The audience directs me..
I want to do literally everything. I think I was gifted... I inherited one of the best comedy visionaries as a director..
I look for something that grabs me and that's heartfelt, and that's coming from a good place. I want to work with good actors and with directors that….
There's something mystical and wonderful about being in the room with the actual live performer s on stage that works. In film, it doesn't work so yo….
I rode it once, which was up the driveway in the opening credits of the show. I didn't know how to stop it. I actually nearly killed the director of ….
The contemporary Japanese directors who are well-known in the West - say, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takeshi Kitano, Naomi Kawase - are mostly unknown to Japa….
You can't fix a bad script after you start shooting. The problems on the page only get bigger as they move to the big screen..
Among today's directors I'm of course impressed by Steven Spielberg and Scorsese, and Coppola, even if he seems to have ceased making films, and Stev….
To be a great director, what does it mean exactly? It's not only about a great director, but also about being able to rely on the very special chemis….
I have a side of me that doesn't care. I really enjoy physical comedy, thinking of an idea and pitching it to the director..
I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was..
When a filmmaker does not make films it is as if he is jailed. Even when he is freed from the small jail, he finds himself wandering in a larger jail….
You mustn't look at a film with only one point of view..
It's turned into a world of amateurs. There are amateur actors making millions of dollars, amateur cinematographers, amateur directors... Jesus, thes….
I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all..