There are some actresses who cannot function on the set without having a close relationship with their directors. Their way of communicating with the….
I like working with a first time director. I'm more likely to work with a first time director than I am a second time director..
Force Majeure is a jolt. You won't know what hit you. Director Ostlund shifts gears from humor to psychological thriller with cunning skill..
If everyone's comfortable, you can pretty much make any kind of movie that the director wants..
Women think in Sirk's films. Something which has never struck me with other directors. None of them. Usually women are always reacting, doing what wo….
All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do, it's not very loud. That d….
I'm very interested in directing actors - many directors direct cameras..
I'm a huge fan of the director, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and his work, and I knew he was going to be an amazing actor's director, based on the pe….
When I was younger, I would mess about and have a laugh with everyone. I was doing Atonement when I was about 12, and as we went to do this very seri….
It's mostly directors whom I get starstruck around..
When I was making films [early in my career] there were very, very few female directors, and there were certainly no women on set, which made taking ….
As an actor, I know immediately if I'm saying a word that doesn't feel right coming out of my mouth, and I know how to change it. But as a director w….
I'm not as eager to go just work to work. I have another life outside of it, and if I'm pretty sure the movie's not going to have a life, or if it's ….
And when I have lived elsewhere, every two weeks I have to fly back to LA. Even New York directors go there to audition. So I have to be there to a d….
(As) a director who is a writer, I have respect for writers, so I'm less likely to step on an idea or a line..
I'd love to direct a film, but I don't think I have the temperament for it. I'm very hyper, and I want things to be done ASAP. If I turn director, I ….
I feel I should defer to the writers and the directors because theyre the ones who have the complete vision. They see things through from the beginni….
It's so sad to me [see the director's versions of films] because it shows how the filmmaker never got to make the film he had originally envisioned. ….
There are some directors, lesser in confidence or skill, who make the actor feel very uncomfortable because you feel you're auditioning for them, eve….
What you want is a comfortable environment that you feel you can invent in. Because film is such a lumbering, technical, huge, great Neanderthal thin….
There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard..