“Its true, Im the youngest, highest-grossing French director. I have a few records, but no one knows or simply doesnt care. Thats good, because I like that. Ultimately, I want to keep working, making a lot of movies, and get better at it. Its about finding great scripts and bringing them to life.” KnowsWantCareRecordsDirectorsFindingsHighestScriptsGet Better Author:Louis Leterrier
“I look at the script first and who's directing it and then talk to the director to find out what his vision of the movie is and if it matches my vision and then we go after it.” IfsFirstsLooksVisionDirectorsScripts Author:Frank Grillo
“I came from advertising. For me it's about protecting the director's vision. That's always the goal. There's keeping things on budget and on time and dealing with selling the movie so that to me is a focus. But also it's about serving the script. We are genre filmmakers, those are the films we love to make, so my perspective is a little different.” LittlesDifferentFilmGoalVisionFocusPerspectiveDirectorsScriptsSellingAdvertisingGenreBudgetsFilmmakerServing Author:Charles Roven
“In the old days when I first was coming up, you would turn up on set in the morning with your coffee, script, and hangover and you would figure out what you were going to do with the day and how you were going to play the scenes. You would rehearse and then invite the crew in to watch the actors go through the scenes. The actors would go away to makeup and costume and the director and the DP would work out how they were going to cover what the actors had just done.” FirstsDonePlayTurnsActorsWatchesMorningFiguresSceneDirectorsScriptsWork OutCoffeeMakeupGoing AwayInvitesCrewCostumesOld DaysHangover Author:Paul Bettany
“As an actor, I know immediately if I'm saying a word that doesn't feel right coming out of my mouth, and I know how to change it. But as a director watching something, or even as a writer reading a script, sometimes it's not always clear what needs to be fixed.” IfsKnowsNeedsFeelsSometimesReadingActorsKnow HowClearDirectorsMouthsScriptsFixedComing OutFeels RightWriters Reading Author:Scott Foley
“I don't think the written word is important in movies anymore and the really great movies are done by great directors who in many cases write their own scripts. I think it's gotten to be more of a visual thing than an audible thing.” ThinkingWritingImportantDoneCasesWrittenDirectorsScriptsVisualsReally GreatWritten Word Author:Anita Loos
“For me, each film, each script is like a little journey in itself, and I'm reinventing the wheel. It's like how do I make this film. That's part of the pleasure and that's why I'm not a normal professional director.” LittlesFilmPleasureJourneyDirectorsNormalScriptsWheelsReinventing Author:Pawel Pawlikowski
“The test for me, when I read other people's scripts, is whether I feel like there's something about me that is the best person to tell this story. I have a pretty high bar for myself. There's a lot of scripts that I read and think, "Oh, this is great, but I think there are 50 other directors who could bring this to the cinema."” PeopleThinkingFeelsPersonsStoriesDirectorsTestsScriptsBarsCinemaBest Person Author:Francesca Gregorini
“I never practice before, I never work hours on a script. I just choose my characters and trust them, and after that, it's about the director taking your hand.” CharacterHandsHoursPracticeDirectorsScripts Author:Melanie Laurent
“I would say it was the directors. We have to give credit to the directors for this, because in the script, we just said, "Gru's Minions do this or do that" in the initial draft. And then, they came up with the characters' design and the philosophical concept of the Minions. And then, we started writing to that. We have to give a lot of credit to them.” GivingWritingSaidCharacterDesignDirectorsConceptsPhilosophicalScriptsCreditInitialsMinionsCharacter Design Author:Cinco Paul
“I did a film called The Jesuit, which was an independent film. I did that shortly after Mistresses. I was still feeling soft and I was nursing, but it was a character I'd never played before. That was a Paul Schrader script, with an up-and-coming Mexican director, named Alfonso Ulloa. That has Tim Roth and Paz Vega in it, and I enjoyed that, as well.” WellsStillsCharacterFeelingsFilmDirectorsIndependentScriptsEnjoyedMexicanMistressVegasNursingIndependent FilmJesuit Author:Shannyn Sossamon
“It helps, if you've directed, to be able to write a script that is director-friendly. You're really telling them [directors], "This is how it works on this show." It takes some of the guesswork out of it.” IfsWritingHelpingShowsAbleDirectorsScriptsWork OutFriendlyGuesswork Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino
“When you're an actor, you're very much exposed, but in a strange way you're totally protected behind a character, behind a script, behind a director.” WayCharacterActorsBehindsStrangeDirectorsScriptsExposedProtected Author:Mathieu Demy
“Yeah, well I can't see a situation where I wouldn't at least re-write as a director something I was going to direct. At the moment, I wouldn't direct anything that I hadn't written. I can now say, as everybody else says, that it all depends on the script.” WritingWellsI CanMomentsSituationWrittenDependsDirectorsDirectYeahScripts Author:William Monahan
“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
“I'm trying to work only with established, respected directors. I took a lot of bad scripts and worked for a lot of lazy directors, and it was discouraging to go to the screenings and see that the director had added nothing, the editor had added nothing, there was nothing to see.” TryingDirectorsScriptsLazyEditorsDiscouragingScreening Author:Michael Caine
“I was meeting a lot of directors and reading scripts, and I was like, "Well, I'd love to play this part," but I couldn't.” WellsPlayReadingDirectorsMeetingsScripts Author:Joel Kinnaman
“My criteria for doing theater has always been slightly different than my criteria with movies, in that there are a lot of reasons to do films, having to do with location, money, and first and foremost having to do with script and role and director.” FirstsDifferentReasonFilmRolesDirectorsTheaterScriptsLocationCriteria Author:Stephen Lang
“If I'm a director and I read a script and I say yeah I really want to do this, I would never walk away because the deal wasn't very good - that I wasn't getting paid very much or that the chances that I would see anything on the back end were remote because of the financial waterfall and the way it's structured. I would never use that as a reason not to do something.” IfsWayWantEndsReasonUseChanceWalksDealsDirectorsPaidYeahVery GoodFinancialScriptsWaterfalls Author:Steven Soderbergh
“You can have a great script, or a great director and a bad script, and get a great movie. Nothing really guarantees anything.” DirectorsScriptsGuarantees Author:Douglas Booth
“More often than not, if you've got a good director and a good script you can't really go wrong.” IfsDirectorsScriptsGood Directors Author:Douglas Booth
“All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that you have a script and it's very linear.” WayKindFilmIndividualViewsDirectorsScriptsFilmmakingLinear Author:Paul Greengrass
“I knew [Jesse Owens'] name, but I really didn't remember what it is he had done, so I felt like I had to get refreshed. So I read the script and I realized like, wow, this is an incredible human being. I told my manager, however I had to do it, let me see the director; I got to play him.” HumansDonePlayRememberNamesFeltHuman BeingsDirectorsLet MeIncrediblesScriptsI RealizedManagersWow Author:Stephan James
“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
“When I read the script [of Good Kill], it read like a science fiction film. And Andrew [writer/director Andrew Niccol] is known for sci-fi. But when I spoke to him, he said this picture was 100% factual, which blew my mind. I realized then how little I knew about the drone program. And I felt that, if I knew so little about it, there must be others who should be educated about what's going on.” IfsShouldMindLittlesSaidFilmFeltFictionKnownDirectorsProgramScience FictionScriptsI RealizedEducatedSpokesSci FiAndrewDronesFactual Author:Zoe Kravitz
“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
“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
“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
“I've never done a movie in that genre, and I love a lot of those movies. I watched the director's [David Freyne] short film [The First Wave], which I loved. And the script was just so good. He's found this way to tell a new story.” WayFirstsDoneStoriesFilmFoundDirectorsScriptsWaveGenreShort Films Author:Ellen Page
“I want to have a great director, and also a great producer and co-stars. And there should be a tight script. After all, regardless of how the film turns out, I must have fun doing the film!” WantShouldFilmTurnsFunStarsDirectorsScriptsProducersHaving Fun Author:Kajol