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 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….
The contemporary Japanese directors who are well-known in the West - say, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takeshi Kitano, Naomi Kawase - are mostly unknown to Japa….
I do not know if it is true that all actors want to direct and all directors want to act, but in 1972 I tried directing and decided I had better stic….
I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer..
I think to be a good director you have to be a good person and you have to care about people..
You have to move really fast, as a director in television. If you're able to keep things moving on set, everybody has more fun, and when everybody ha….
There's very exciting directors who haven't made a feature yet. That's what's cool about the job - the ever-changing landscape of people you could po….
Every film you work on is different, and that's part of what it's like for anybody who works on a film, is to learn how to work with others. Learn fr….
OSS 117 and maybe Un Balcon Sur La Mer directed by Nicole Garcia. It's a typical French movie with typical French themes with French actors, a French….
In France, I have lots of opportunities. Maybe now I'll be offered films in America. It's the encounter, with the director and the story that counts..
I think when you pay attention to the shots, you're aware of the fact that there's a director. Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow….
The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to ….
Whether you're a cameraman or a director, you should ask yourself every now and then, 'What am I trying to do?' Be honest and keep things very simple..
I thought all I had to do was to buy a camera and become a film director. So when I left school I worked at a telephone company, which gave me the mo….
What I promise to my actors, and to my director, is to give them the salary and everything they need..
By every measure, John Kennedy's sex life was compulsive and reckless. At one level, it had clear public consequences. Knowledge of Kennedy's behavio….
As a director who does not like to write, I am always looking for scripts that I can contribute to through directing. I don't want to do the same thi….
I've tried to stay out of the frame more as a director..
There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know..
I love test screenings. Some directors don't, I know. But I love it. I think it's because I come from the theatre and in the theatre, previews are wh….