“I'm not really a director for hire. You read these scripts and go, 'This is a really great script, but Paul Greengrass would make this so much better than me.' I usually say, 'I know who would be good for this. It's not me.” KnowsWould BeDirectorsScriptsBe GoodReally Great Author:Stephen Daldry
“There are times when you work with directors on set, and things are a bit rudderless, and those can be good directors.” BitsDirectorsBe GoodGood Directors Author:Grant Heslov
“The thing that I think a director has to have in order to make a movie really work, and to certainly make a film that feels personal, which I hope this one does, is that you have to have a sense of the feeling that you want to create in people, the tone which you want to tell the story, and the basic themes you want to come out. You can't compromise on those because you are then not making the movie that you are going to be good at telling.” PeopleThinkingWantFeelsDoeStoriesFeelingsFilmOrderDirectorsBe GoodCompromiseToneTheme Author:George Nolfi
“There are certain directors where you know you're going to be good or you're not going to be there. There are people where you kind of know that if you miss the mark then it'll probably not be in the movie and that's very reassuring.” PeopleIfsKnowsKindCertainMissingDirectorsMarkBe GoodReassuring Author:Christopher Walken
“I thought I'd become a funeral director when I wasn't going to be an actor. I thought I would be good at helping some people with the grieving process and with trying to get them to talk about and understand who this person was.” PeopleTryingPersonsHelpingWould BeActorsProcessDirectorsBe GoodGrievingFuneralGrieving Process Author:Angelina Jolie