“And then, once you've written, you meet producers and directors and actors. You get to meet interesting, talented, creative, artistic people, and it also staves off a bit of creative stagnation when you can't act, which is the reality of the industry. So often, you can't act because there are just too many cars and not enough car parks. But, I love writing and I'll never stop doing that.” PeopleWritingEnoughRealityActorsBitsInterestingCreativeWrittenCarIndustryDirectorsProducersArtisticParksStagnationCreative ArtCar Parks Author:Josh Lawson
“I will say that I'm going to take full credit for this. I knew Josh [Hutcherson] was going to be a star. One of the things you do, as a music video director, is spot talent. Th at's one of my things. I don't just do random people.” PeopleStarsTalentDirectorsCreditVideoSpotsJosh Author:Joseph M. Kahn
“I've done so many movies with first-time directors, and honestly I just go with gut instinct. People that usually can tell me a good story, and talk to me about why the movie is the movie they want to make. I just go with my gut.” PeopleWantFirstsDoneStoriesDirectorsFirst TimeInstinctHonestlyGutsGood StoryTalk To MeGut Instinct Author:Neal H. Moritz
“I think there's a perception of me that I'm the dark lord of all that is scary and gory, but that's completely false. I love musicals. My house is very bright and lit. It's not what people would really expect from a Saw director, but I think that's what allows me to do the things that I do.” PeopleThinkingHouseDarkLordSawsDirectorsPerceptionScaryLitI Love Music Author:Darren Lynn Bousman
“I don't think people realizemilie-autumn-devils-carnivale that, once you turn your director's cut in, it's no longer yours.” PeopleThinkingTurnsCuttingDirectorsDevilAutumn Author:Darren Lynn Bousman
“Every director is different, but the insights from new people on set give you a different opinion and perspective, which is always embraced, in some way.” PeopleWayGivingDifferentOpinionPerspectiveDirectorsInsightDifferent Opinions Author:Dominique McElligott
“I have always firmly believed that every director should be judged solely by their work, and not by their work based on their gender. Hollywood is supposedly a community of forward thinking and progressive people yet this horrific situation for women directors persists. Gender discrimination stigmatizes our entire industry. Change is essential. Gender neutral hiring is essential.” PeopleThinkingShouldCommunitySituationIndustryDirectorsEssentialsHollywoodGenderDiscriminationProgressiveJudgedPersistHiringHorrificForward ThinkingGender GapGender Discrimination Author:Kathryn Bigelow
“My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's terrible habit for an actor, but that's a good habit for director. So I became a director.” PeopleIfsWayActorsHabitTerribleDirectorsTendenciesWhat IfGood Habits Author:David Mamet
“A film can be big or small - I have to just fall in love with it. To connect with the character, the script, and the director. Sometimes they say to you, 'You should do that for your career; it's a big thing, people will go and see it,' but I wouldn't be able to, because my heart wouldn't be in it. I would drive people quite mad.” PeopleShouldHeartSometimesCharacterBigsAbleFilmFallCareersMy HeartDirectorsMadFalling In LoveScriptsBig Things Author:Eva Green
“You are the director of your own life story. Don't cast idiots or people will walk out during your 2nd act.” PeopleStoriesWalksDirectorsCastsIdiotLife Story Author:Dane Cook
“The best and most talented directors - and I think it goes for people too - are the most confident in giving room to their actors and trusting them.” PeopleThinkingGivingActorsRoomsDirectors Author:Ari Graynor
“Because I've always aspired to direct and produce, I've literally worked with about 200 directors and countless producers, so what I appreciate is how, through osmosis and through actually asking questions and through people offering wisdom, there's a lot in there.” PeopleProduceDirectorsAppreciateDirectAskingProducersOfferingAsking QuestionsOsmosis Author:Malik Yoba
“I think directors can be a little insensitive to how vulnerable an actor is, when he's giving a performance. Part of the job of an actor is to invite scrutiny, but with that, the people around them have to nurture that and put them in an environment where they feel safe and they feel like they can risk something.” PeopleThinkingGivingFeelsLittlesJobsActorsEnvironmentRiskDirectorsSafePerformancesVulnerableInvitesNurtureScrutinyInsensitive Author:Eric Balfour
“But, yeah, it was just the regular audition process. There were a couple people telling me about it and that they were looking for the actors, but my manager is pretty good at sorting that out. And, (casting director) Rene Haynes cast me in Into the West, and she's always kept in touch and been a real big supporter of my career.” PeopleRealBigsActorsProcessCareersCoupleDirectorsYeahWestCastsManagersAuditionsSupporterCastingSortingCasting Directors Author:Tinsel Korey
“I really like the director [for Weeds]. I don't know if you've spoken to him yet but he's really, really intelligent. He was just really kind when I met him and nice and really told me why I should play the part...and kind of really didn't argue with him. He's just really, really smart and assembled these really great people. I felt like he really knows how to enlist his intelligence to get you - I don't know - he's really hard to argue with I find.” PeopleIfsKnowsShouldKindHardPlayFeltKnow HowNiceMetsDirectorsSmartIntelligentArguingWeedReally GreatGreat PeopleReally Smart Author:Mary-Louise Parker
“People are mystified by it and so they kind of think, the acting community thinks they're gonna be replaced by CG characters and animators think they're gonna be replaced by performance capture (and) a lot of directors, particularly European directors, who have no experience of it.” PeopleThinkingKindCharacterCommunityActingDirectorsPerformancesCaptureReplacedAnimator Author:Andy Serkis
“I like characters. I like spirited characters whether they exist in fiction or real life. Whether they're the invention of artistic people or directors, musicians. I think music and art and fashion designers inspire me and I like characters.” PeopleThinkingArtRealCharacterFictionFashionInspireDirectorsMusicianReal LifeInventionArtisticDesignerFashion DesignerSpirited Author:Marc Jacobs
“I'd love to do a Michel Gondry film. That would be ideal! I'd love to do an Almodovar film; you know, I think he's very, very talented. I don't care that people say he's pretentious. So what? He's a good director; he can be pretentious.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWould BeCareFilmDirectorsIdealsDon't CareI Don't CarePretentiousGood DirectorsAlmodovar Author:William Moseley
“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
“The techniques of different directors are very different, and people have different ways of expressing ideas in film. I'm happiest when working with a director as I would be if I were an actor. I'm wanting to provide a really good performance.” PeopleIfsWayIdeasDifferentWould BeFilmActorsDirectorsPerformancesTechniqueDifferent WaysExpressing Ideas Author:Howard Shore
“A lot of people love Tarantino’s films because they’re spectacular, they’re beautiful, they’re wonderful. He hires the best group of artists - not only actors, but everyone around: best photographers, best set designers, best production designers, costume designers. A lot of people love his films because they’re bloody, they’re gory, they’re savage. But very few people see that he’s a very political director.” PeopleBeautifulFilmPoliticalArtistActorsWonderfulGroupsDirectorsPhotographerProductionsDesignerBloodySavagesCostumesSpectacularTarantino Author:Demian Bichir
“There's a voice inside of me that I know people will relate to; I just haven't really had the opportunity to let it flourish. To sit there and explain to a guy what it's like to be a kick-ass woman is hard. I think there're only a handful of directors out there that get it.” PeopleThinkingKnowsHardGuyOpportunityVoiceHavensDirectorsAssRelateKicksHandfulKick Ass Author:Michelle Rodriguez
“If you're onstage and you're improvising and nothing's happening, people are racing for the door. But the director can go shopping later and pick up pieces and moments and insert them.” PeopleIfsMomentsPiecesDoorsDirectorsHappeningsPicksRacingShoppingImprovisingInsert Author:Gary Cole
“I'm just trying to choose interesting, quirky projects or things with interesting directors or just movies that have a lot of people I like attached to them so I know I'm going to have a good time.” PeopleKnowsTryingInterestingDirectorsProjectsGood TimesHaving A Good TimeQuirky Author:Douglas Booth
“The only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors, directors, musicians, set designers, and photographers. In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.” PeopleWayLittlesActorsDirectorsMusicianHollywoodPhotographerDesignerProgressiveOpen MindOpen MindedMake Out Author:Adam McKay
“When you're a music director, you have people constantly sending you music and trying to get - I mean, I'm sure you have the exact same thing when you do a magazine - that you have people constantly wanting to get your attention. And I think I learnt a lot from being on that end of things, when I was trying to book the tour, the first tour we did.” PeopleThinkingTryingFirstsMeanBookEndsAttentionDirectorsMagazines Author:Chris Baio
“Exodus is a very large organization. My board of directors is supportive of me as the president of Exodus and are very much involved in my decision-making and those types of things. They're a wonderful and balanced group of people and I'm grateful for their support. Within the membership we have 270 or so members within the network of Exodus whether that's a local member ministry, a counselor or one of our members of our church association.” PeoplePresidentChurchDecisionSupportWonderfulGroupsTypeInvolvedDirectorsMembersOrganizationGratefulLocalsBoardsDecision MakingAssociationBalancedMinistrySupportiveMembershipCounselorBoard Of DirectorsExodus Author:Alan Chambers
“Alejandro Amenabar is a different kind of director than I lot of the directors I've asked for. He really asks you to enter his dream as opposed to, you know, a guy like Sidney Lumet or something is going to ask you to create a character almost like a documentary. He wants you to make the people really real and he's going to capture it like a documentarian.” PeopleKnowsWantKindDifferentRealCharacterDreamGuyAsksDirectorsCaptureDifferent KindsDocumentaries Author:Ethan Hawke
“I think that what a lot of people tell you, a lot of the job of the director is having an opinion about everything.” PeopleThinkingJobsOpinionDirectors Author:Etan Cohen
“In some cases, people are silent; they're being complacent. But we're also seeing people speak out against some of these raids, these arrests. So for example, the Townhouse Gallery - the outreach director gave an interview to Ahram Online, which is a semi-official news agency here. And he sort of dismissed it, played it down. But the publisher from the publishing house - the Merit Publishing House, which was raided - he said this won't scare us; we will continue to dream of a free country, a country with social justice, and this won't silence us.” PeopleSaidCountryDreamHouseSpeakSocialJusticeSilenceCasesSeeingExampleDirectorsNewsSocial JusticeSilentMeritAgencyOfficialsInterviewsOnlineScarePublishingPublishersGallerySpeaks OutComplacentFree CountryOutreachPublishing House Author:Leila Fadel
“I think that there is a real beauty to the live aspect of the theater, and the working with a director for a month on a script in the isolation of a room and really deeply delving into who are these people, what is the story we're telling, how do we want to tell it?” PeopleThinkingWantRealStoriesRoomsMonthsDirectorsAspectTheaterScriptsIsolationReal BeautyReally DeepDelving Author:Karen Allen
“The thing I noticed, have learned the most about directors, is: when they're very confident in themselves, they're open to creativity from other people. If they're scared or nervous, then they shut off and nobody's ideas [count].” PeopleIfsIdeasCreativityDirectorsScaredNervous Author:Geena Davis
“In my experience, directors who are the most comfortable with themselves and confident in their work give you and everybody on the crew the freedom and the space to create. It's the people who are more insecure who feel the need to control and micromanage.” PeopleNeedsGivingFeelsSpaceDirectorsComfortableCrewInsecure Author:Sarah Gadon
“The director Denis [Villeneuve] is actually an actor (he's from Sons of Anarchy and he's a great character actor) and he's also a screenwriter (he wrote What Lies Beneath). It blows my mind to see when people from one sector move to another and excel. I think Sicario was one of the best directed and written films. It did get [a nomination for best] cinematography, though.” PeopleThinkingMindCharacterFilmMovingLyingActorsWrittenSonDirectorsBlowAnarchyScreenwritersNominationsGreat CharacterCharacter ActorsCinematography Author:Bun B
“There's people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you're compassionate.” PeopleThinkingWellsDirectorsAskingMotherhoodCompassionateTransfersBeing A MomMulti Tasking Author:Angelina Jolie
“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
“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 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'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
“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
“The vast majority of people support the idea of an enlightened, modern union of countries demonstrating solidarity. Film director Wim Wenders recently summed up the problem to me very well. He said the idea of Europe has become an administration, and now people think that the administration is the idea. But that doesn't mean we should give up on the idea - it means we should change the administration.” PeopleThinkingGivingShouldWellsMeanSaidIdeasCountryProblemFilmSupportModernDirectorsGiving UpEuropeMajorityUnionsAdministrationEnlightenedSolidarityDemonstratingFilm Directors Author:Martin Schulz
“People have curiosity, they have intelligence, they have interest in understanding their peers. But producers and directors of cinema have decided that the seats in the theaters have been made to transform people's minds to lazy minds.” PeopleMindHas BeensMadeUnderstandingInterestDirectorsDecidedTheaterCuriosityProducersCinemaSeatsLazyPeers Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“I didn't just see myself as a film director here [in Life And Nothing More], but also as an observer of people who had been condemned to death.” PeopleFilmDirectorsObserversFilm Directors Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“I know it sounds earnest, but I do really feel in my bones that acting is just a small part of the equation when you are making a movie. The director really is in charge. Actors are as important or unimportant as the rest of the people around them.” PeopleKnowsFeelsImportantActorsSoundActingDirectorsBonesEquationsEarnestUnimportantSmall Parts Author:Julia Stiles
“I've always been a huge fan of Patricia's [Rozema ], as a director and as a writer, and she's a friend. For me, Patricia is one of those people who can cross genre in a way that I think has been pretty incredible, if you look at her career and the versatility of her work.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayLooksHas BeensCareersFansHugeDirectorsCrossesIncrediblesGenreVersatility Author:Ellen Page
“I don't have specific people. There are so many people that I admire and there's directors that I'm desperate to work with that haven't even made a movie yet, probably.” PeopleMadeHavensDirectorsAdmireDesperate Author:Jamie Dornan
“There's very exciting directors who haven't made a feature yet. That's what's cool about the job - the ever-changing landscape of people you could potentially work with.” PeopleMadeJobsHavensDirectorsExcitingLandscapeFeatures Author:Jamie Dornan