“Hours is an understatement. I honestly don't know how the director and editor decide each week what actually makes it on the air. There's of course director and cast commentary on each episode on the DVD. We had a blast recording that.” KnowsCoursesHoursKnow HowAirWeekDirectorsCastsHonestlyEditorsEpisodesBlastCommentaryDvdsUnderstatement Author:Joel McHale
“As a director and an actor, it is very difficult to say "this person was better than another person." I judge by chemistry of the actors but it is difficult being a judge. I will never bash any of the actors.” PersonsActorsDifficultJudgingDirectorsChemistryBash Author:Tommy Wiseau
“At any given day you have to be ready with everything. It can be that the director says "this one's done and I need a new one." And you're like, "oh my god! I only have two months, no way!" So your design approach is completely different. You develop, let's say six things at the same time, and try to be ready everyday to give it away.” WayNeedsGivingTryingTwoDifferentDoneGivenDesignReadyMonthsDirectorsSixApproachEverydayTwo Months Author:Daniel Simon
“You know, boy versus girl. But she's a tough warrior, so I almost treated it like unisex. But it makes a difference how tall the actors are, because I needed to know that if Olivia Wilde sits in a car that the director, Joe Kosinski can still get the angle he wants, as opposed to maybe in another vehicle than Jeff Bridges has to sit in. So that was fascinating. Because in a real car you change everything and adjust it. But here you have one shot.” IfsKnowsWantStillsRealGirlActorsDifferencesBoysCarNeededDirectorsShotsToughTreatedWarriorBridgesMaking A DifferenceFascinatingTallVehicleAngleVersusWildeOliviaUnisex Author:Daniel Simon
“I got very spoiled. Everybody said you will never ever work on such a good movie, you know. I did, because I went on to work on Captain America, which also has a great director, which is Joe Johnston, one of my heroes who designed the old Star Wars movies.” KnowsSaidWarAmericaStarsHeroDirectorsCaptainsSpoiledMy HeroGood MovieWar MovieStar Wars Movie Author:Daniel Simon
“Also one of my heroes is Syd Mead, who designed the vehicles for the first Tron. So, there are so many beautiful things happening here. And working with Joe was great. He's an architect, so I worked with other directors in between who were just about the action.” FirstsActionBeautifulHeroDirectorsHappeningsThings HappenArchitectVehicleBeautiful ThingsMy HeroMead Author:Daniel Simon
“I'd like to decide who comes here. I'd like to be the admissions director of New York.” New YorkDirectorsAdmission Author:Fran Lebowitz
“I think having women behind the cameras is exciting - whether it's as a director or a writer or a producer - because it does feel like we're in the middle of this awakening of realizing that it's important for women to have a voice.” ThinkingFeelsDoeImportantVoiceRealizingBehindsMiddleDirectorsExcitingCamerasAwakeningProducers Author:Mary Elizabeth Ellis
“I also think it's still easy for us - as women, as writers and as directors and producers - to let it fall into the same patterns. Like, "and then the woman brings in the food, because the woman's the one who makes food." It's easy for that to happen, because that's what we've always known.” ThinkingStillsHappensFallEasyKnownDirectorsPatternsProducers Author:Mary Elizabeth Ellis
“[YSL creative director] Hedi [Slimane] is a music-obsessed guy. I might've originally met him through Sky.” MightGuyCreativeSkyMetsDirectorsObsessedYsl Author:Zachary Cole Smith
“Some of my favorite scenes aren't in the movie. Because you, at some point, realize that your responsibility as director is purely to the story. It's not to your pleasure.” StoriesRealizingPleasureResponsibilitySceneDirectorsMy Favorite Author:Mark Ruffalo
“It's a surreal thing because you are there and made up and dressed up as if you're making the film. You do the scene, which is going to be in the film, and I met him [Daniel Craig] and I'm working with the director, and so it is different to just a normal audition.” IfsMadeDifferentFilmMetsSceneDirectorsNormalAuditionsSurrealDressed Up Author:Gemma Arterton
“The casting director on the movie made me aware of her. She told me what to watch Starter For Ten, which I did and thought she was great in. She was just so charming and beautiful. But I felt she could probably look plain if we tried. And when I subsequently met with her, I was so charmed by her vulnerability and sweetness. Those were two qualities that were the most important for that character.” IfsLooksMadeTwoImportantCharacterBeautifulFeltQualityWatchesMetsDirectorsTenVulnerabilityCharmingSweetnessCastingCharmedStartersCasting Directors Author:Nicole Holofcener
“I guess I always knew going into the movie that casting that part would be difficult. Oliver just felt likeable. I felt it would be hard to dislike this man. I don't know why, but I'm sure other directors have felt the same when casting him. Oliver is goofy yet formidable, smart but likeable... I didn't want the character of Alex to be nasty or demonised. I wanted him to be struggling with his actions.” KnowsMenWantHardCharacterWould BeActionWantedFeltDifficultStruggleDirectorsSmartDislikeNastyCastingAlexFormidableGoofyLikeable Author:Nicole Holofcener
“But then male directors also have a hard time getting their movies made... not as hard as women but it's a tough time for any movie this size. And that particular movie [The Hurt Locker] was so specific. It couldn't hurt, of course, and I'm really glad for her, but I don't know how much it will change things, if at all. The film industry is still so sexist.” IfsKnowsMadeStillsHardFilmCoursesHurtKnow HowParticularIndustryDirectorsToughMalesSizeGladHard TimesTough TimesSexistFilm IndustryLockersHurt Locker Author:Nicole Holofcener
“Director Park always talked to me about her in a very innocent way, that the story was of her coming of age and her sexual awakening and her going from girl to woman and that she had the same desires and hopes as other young people in terms of being very infatuated, which comes in the form of her uncle, which is very unconventional.” PeopleWayStoriesAgeFormYoungDesireGirlTermDirectorsAwakeningInnocentParksComing Of AgeUnclesUnconventionalInfatuated Author:Mia Wasikowska
“Director Park asking that if there was a pocket on one side of the piece of clothing then there should be a pocket on the other side. They were a little uncomfortable to wear, yes, because there were a lot of tight, high-waisted things so it was great at the end of the day to slip into some pajamas!” IfsShouldLittlesEndsSidesPiecesDirectorsAskingUncomfortableParksThe End Of The DayPocketsClothingsSlipsPajamas Author:Mia Wasikowska
“I've worked with acting coaches, I've been going out on auditions and meeting with casting directors. But I'm not known as an actress.” ActingKnownDirectorsMeetingsActressesCoachesGoing OutAuditionsCastingCasting Directors Author:Cassie Ventura
“I'd love to direct, and I think I'd be a great director, but... I've been approved by the studio to direct, which I think is a cool jump of faith for them. Or proof that they're really stupid. But I don't think so.” ThinkingStupidDirectorsDirectStudiosProofApprovedReally Stupid Author:Paul Reubens
“I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.” ActorsTelevisionDirectorsProgramProducers Author:James Lipton
“Film works when a director and a star have a connection. You know, when there's something telekinetic between them, there's a partnership, it's like alter egos. It's like James Stewart and Alfred Hitchcock, or Fellini and Mastroianni. I'm not comparing, I'm just saying, if you can come into a relationship where the director and star have such a bond, it's so much easier to make a movie.” IfsKnowsFilmStarsEasierDirectorsEgoConnectionsComparePartnershipJust SayingHitchcockAlter Ego Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
“The director of 500 Days of Summer is doing the Spider-Man movie. That's not necessarily the movies I want to make, but it's all about the story, and if you connect to the story, and you feel you can tell that story better than anyone else, then great. Jon Favreau killed Iron Man, I loved it.” IfsMenWantFeelsStoriesDirectorsSummerIronSpidersSpider ManIron ManSpider Man Movie Author:Katie Aselton
“Every time I feel that I really hit critical mass and I'm in the right place is when I feel like the director and I become a third thing, and that's the character.” FeelsCharacterDirectorsMassThirdsCriticalRight PlaceCritical Mass Author:Robert Downey, Jr.
“I've been very lucky to work with many amazing animators and directors who can interpret and extend the music I make. When it's done well, it can create extra meaning and new context for the song.” WellsDoneSongLuckyDirectorsExtrasAnimator Author:Gotye
“My father was a director, and he used to always tell me, "You should be an actress." When I was 17, he gave me a job so that I'd be in the union.” ShouldJobsUsedFatherDirectorsUnionsActresses Author:Katey Sagal
“And one of the funnest things was watching what they did before the director called action and after the director called cut. And they'd keep their hands in the puppets, they'd stay in character, and then they'd start goofing around with each other and be off of script, and it would get quite blue.” CharacterHandsActionCuttingDirectorsBlueScriptsPuppetsGoofing Around Author:Brian Henson
“I was 17, certainly by the time I was 19, I knew that show business was where I was going to end up, and I had my sights on being a director.” EndsShowsDirectorsSightShow Business Author:Brian Henson
“And so as a director, as a leader, and myself as a director and a leader, I kind of try to make sure that we hold onto the vision and kind of corral it, but by the time you finish whatever the project is, a TV show, a series, a movie, a stage show, it should be a product of what all those people can do, and therefore, it can never be what you imagined it would be in the beginning.” PeopleShouldTryingKindShowsWould BeCan DoLeaderVisionStageTvsProductsDirectorsProjectsSeriesTv Shows Author:Brian Henson
“I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me.” WantYoungActorsFunWatchesHavensDirectorsStudiosScreensHungryProducersWant MeTestedHiringFootloose Author:Kevin Bacon
“I think that's what makes David Ayer really interesting. He likes to make a tough-y movie, but actually he's a character director. He's fascinated by the actual people who decide to have these jobs and the way it affects their lives.” PeopleThinkingWayCharacterJobsInterestingDirectorsToughLikesFascinatedReally Interesting Author:Mireille Enos
“I just realized that I need to be a director - for two reasons. One, directors were already my heroes at this point. I wanted to; when I wanted to be an actor I wanted to work with this director. Not work with this actor, I wanted to work for this director.” NeedsTwoReasonWantedActorsHeroDirectorsMy HeroJust Realized Author:Quentin Tarantino
“Rewriting the negative beliefs you have learned is the essence of becoming the director of your life.” BeliefSelf EsteemBecomingDirectorsNegativeEssenceEsteemRewritingNegative Beliefs Author:Deborah Day
“A lot of new American directors have had mentors who have given them advice. And some of them have had the way paved for them by huge Hollywood directors who saw a younger version of themselves.” WayGivenSawsAdviceHugeDirectorsHollywoodVersionsMentor Author:Julie Delpy
“I've never had help from anyone, ever. I've never had this great director who saw themselves in me, because I'm a French woman in Hollywood. Who could identify with me as a successful director in Hollywood? Nobody. And the few people who could have been mentors, instead they just stole my ideas.” PeopleHas BeensIdeasHelpingSuccessfulSawsDirectorsHollywoodMentorCould Have BeenFrench Woman Author:Julie Delpy
“With the film, you have a bunch of executive producers, directors, writers, scripts. There's, management, lighting, the union and etc. There are so many components a part of that game, so naturally it isn't my world.” WorldFilmGamesDirectorsManagementUnionsScriptsBunchProducersEtcExecutivesComponentsLighting Author:Ashanti
“A guy friend I was speaking to said he was talking to a group of male producersand he was just shocked that they said, "But if we give women directors a job they're going to take jobs away from the men." I almost fell out of my chair. But when I encounter this kind of thing, what I try to do is give a chiropractic adjustment to the mind, quickly.” IfsMenGivingTryingMindKindSaidJobsGuyTalkingGroupsHe ManDirectorsMalesEncountersChairsThey SaidShockedAdjustmentChiropracticGuy Friend Author:Rose McGowan
“A director is what a director wants to be. If you want to force something, you can fight to the death and maybe get fired, but it's your job to help push things along.” IfsWantDifferentHelpingJobsFightingForceSituationDirectors Author:Jon M. Chu
“You have to take away the idea that something you do is right or wrong. I don't think there's a right or a wrong; I think there's an "it works" or "it doesn't work" for the whole. And that's why you need a director you trust, so you can just keep throwing out suggestions.” ThinkingNeedsIdeasWholeDirectorsThrowingSuggestions Author:Susan Sarandon
“With the most interesting directors, the cast comes together to make something magical that nobody counted on.” TogetherInterestingDirectorsCastsMost Interesting Author:Susan Sarandon
“I think you have to be ready to switch gears and go with the team as a director, as opposed to superimposing your own strict idea of the story. There are very few directors that can micromanage and still come out with something that's living and breathing on a page. Wes Anderson is one of those.” ThinkingStillsIdeasStoriesTeamReadyDirectorsPagesBreathingStrictGears Author:Susan Sarandon
“The directors I consider really great have the ability to recognize when something's going in an unexpected direction and see it as a bonus and be able to go with it, as opposed to locking down what they thought was going to happen.” HappensAbleAbilityDirectorsUnexpectedReally GreatBonus Author:Susan Sarandon
“When I got the script for Thelma & Louise, when I met with the director, Ridley Scott, I said, "I don't want to do a revenge film. I'm not interested in doing that moment in the script after they shoot the truck, where it says they jump up and down and they're real happy about it".” WantSaidRealMomentsFilmMetsDirectorsDown AndScriptsRevengeThat MomentNot InterestedTruckUp And Down Author:Susan Sarandon
“There are two parts of me. There's the really critical, film-nerd part of me that loves that, and then there's the part of me where I'm like, "I really didn't like that movie, but I want to work with that director because he loves actors."” WantTwoFilmActorsDirectorsCriticalNerd Author:Anton Yelchin
“I'm sure there are directors who don't like to work with actors and don't know how to be sensitive to actors.” KnowsActorsKnow HowDirectorsSensitive Author:Anton Yelchin
“There was a very important superintendent of Yellowstone, a man who was involved in the founding of the National Park Service itself, Horace Albright. And he became superintendent, which is the boss of Yellowstone Park, in 1919 - from 1919 to 1929. Later, he was director of the park service itself. Albright embraced the idea that in order for the national parks - and Yellowstone in particular - to have support from the American people and from politicians, there needed to be wildlife as spectacle.” PeopleMenImportantIdeasOrderSupportParticularNeededInvolvedPoliticianDirectorsParksBossFoundingWildlifeNational ParksYellowstoneSuperintendents Author:David Quammen
“In acting, you have a writer, a director, a character - you're working through being another person - and the irony I always tell people is when I acted early on as a teenager, it actually kept me out of trouble.” PeoplePersonsCharacterActingTroubleDirectorsTeenagerIrony Author:Juliette Lewis
“Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.” SometimesKnowingDirectorsGood Directors Author:Gary Oldman
“Sometimes directors feel like they have to justify that hat that they are wearing they've got on as a director, and they come in and they tweak and interfere.” FeelsSometimesDirectorsHatsJustifyInterfereTweak Author:Gary Oldman
“We had a work session [in "Moneyball"] where about 30 scouts came in and we're all riffing. And after it, [director] Bennett Miller said: Look at these faces and this is what we have to got to do. We got to get these guys in the scene.” LooksSaidFacesGuySceneDirectorsSession Author:Brad Pitt
“I was introducing [director and producer] Hal Roach - Mr. Roach was 100 years old, he was one of the fathers of early days in films, he put Laurel with Hardy, he created the Our Gang kids, and all these silent movies he did - he was a giant.” YearsKidsFilmFatherDirectorsSilentProducersGiantsIntroducingGangHardyLaurelsRoachesSilent Movies Author:Billy Crystal