I watched a couple of really bad directors work, and I saw how they completely botched it up and missed the visual opportunities of the scene when we….
Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living..
You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles..
That's the main thing, looking for interesting characters, good directors, and experiences where you're growing and learning..
I'll always be attached to telly in one way or another, whether it's a character or producer or director, I just love the medium..
Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire..
The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director ha….
Picking projects, it's always director first and then script. Those two things are pretty much head-to-head..
I am still very surprised that I managed to make that film [Close Up]. When I actually look back on that film, I really feel that I was not the direc….
Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's warm, where it….
I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere wit….
As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make because of the fixed and tigh….
I don't really need a lot of help from a director..
Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, li….
OK, the director makes the movie. But some movies can't get made without someone like me in them..
Those who have themselves for a spiritual director have a fool for a spiritual director..
When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's like when you start to jump ….
I know there were things emanating from me. I was not aware of what attracted all these directors to me..
Sometimes the directors were afraid of what they brought out of me..
If [Donald] Trump wins narrowly, Democrats can blame the loss on FBI director James Comey, who inserted himself late in the campaign in an unpreceden….
To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy..