“Directors who have inspired me include Billy Wilder, Federico Fellini, lngmar Bergman, John Ford, Orson Welles, Werner Herzog, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, Francis Ford Coppola and Ernst Lubitsch. In art school, I studied painters like Edward Hopper, who used urban motifs, Franz Kafka is my favorite novelist. My approach to film stems from my art background, as I go beyond the story to the sub-conscious mood created by sound and images.” ArtStoriesSchoolFilmUsedSoundDirectorsApproachConsciousInspiredMy FavoriteMoodBackgroundsPainterNovelistsStemUrbanArt SchoolStanleyHitchcockWilderMotifsBergman Author:David Lynch
“I don't come to work as an actor. There are many directors who can direct without ever having acted and do a great job and connect with their actors and lead them to excellent performances without themselves having had an acting background.” JobsActorsActingDirectorsDirectPerformancesBackgroundsExcellentGreat JobExcellent Performance Author:Abdellatif Kechiche
“A director can come from anywhere, but having a story background, if you have nothing else, is probably a good thing to have because it's really the one tool you need.” IfsNeedsStoriesDirectorsToolsGood ThingsBackgrounds Author:Dan Scanlon
“Some directors don't tell you that it's not your fault, so you get increasingly depressed that you're not delivering what's required, and then you discover it's not you at all, it's something in the background that's out of focus.” FocusDirectorsFaultsBackgroundsDelivering Author:Ian Mckellen