I believe young female directors in particular should always remind themselves of the truths of their own stories and not let outsiders influence the….
I've always just wanted to tell stories, and create stuff, and I think "Creator" or "Director" would probably be the two words that I go to first..
Throughout whatever I do, I always just say "Director" first. I am directing the storylines and I'm creating what it is..
Sometimes a director is making three films. Perhaps he is shooting a film in Madras and a film in Bombay and he can't leave Madras as some shooting h….
I have been incredibly fortunate to be able to work with good directors and for me it's not really a plan each time I'm on a set with one of them; I ….
I love working with actors. I love visual things. I always intended to be a writer who directs and a director who writes..
The good part of working in TV is it's like being a studio director in old Hollywood and approaching different genres. It's a chance to try out diffe….
Every actor. every director, everybody needs an Oscar. You have to have that little statue in Hollywood or else you are nothing..
When you grow up in the [film] industry, the director is your father. You follow your father's lead, but you make your own way..
As an actor and director, you have to take risks, even though I don't like saying that word. You can make a mistake..
I view filmmaking as a director's medium..
I always go back to the original material. I want a good connection as the composer and writer of the score to the director and to the source materia….
Richard Marquand, on Jedi, was very much an actor's director..
Steve Zaillian is just the sweetest. A very, very wonderful and interesting director..
When you're not gaping at Megan Fox enough to listen to what the director's saying, you can get some work done..
I don't want to infantilize the actor; I want to empower the actor. Actors can be many things, but all of the really good ones are really great story….
And I think being a good director is being able to be completely tyrannical and you?ve got to be an absolute dictator while at the same time, you hav….
Deb Zane, our casting director on the Hunger Games was very sanguine, from the beginning, about just blocking out what everybody else says that they ….
I like meeting directors. It can be helpful because sometimes when you meet filmmakers you find out if you like them and if they like you, and that i….
It would be horrible to be micro-managed! I don't think directors can really micro-manage people. It's just impossible..
It's quite liberating to have a director stand beside the camera and say: "Do this now, and do that now..." It's also a bit sordid but it liberates a….