“I am not interested in simply working as a director. If I am not making movies that I want to make, that I feel passionate about, or that I feel are hopefully at the level of cinematic quality that I feel they should be then I am not really that interested.” IfsWantFeelsShouldLevelsQualityDirectorsPassionateHopefullyNot InterestedCinematic Author:Brad Furman
“Again, I want to give credit where credit is due to our voice director, Collette Sunderman, who is someone that works out an incredible juggling act. I refer to it as juggling cats with vertigo, and the cats don't have vertigo, but the juggler has vertigo.” WantGivingVoiceDirectorsCatIncrediblesWork OutCreditDuesJugglingJugglersVertigo Author:Jeph Loeb
“I hope, my career is never predictable. And my interests are diverse in that way. I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting I take to the pen and I write something I want to direct. And then when I'm tired of taking on too much responsibility as a director I then look for an acting gig. And I've made it very clear that I'm interested in voiceover work. I mean, I'm always looking for voiceover gigs. I love that.” WayWantFeelsWritingLooksMeanMadeInterestActingResponsibilityCareersClearToo MuchLuckyDirectorsDirectTiredMade ItPensDiverseGigsPredictableI'm TiredBurnt Out Author:Lake Bell
“As a director, you have to go in with a really, really, really clear picture of what you want. That's the point of my commentaries. It's so difficult because you're the harshest critic.” WantDifficultClearDirectorsCriticsWhat You WantCommentary Author:David Slade
“If everyone's comfortable, you can pretty much make any kind of movie that the director wants.” IfsWantKindDirectorsComfortable Author:Jeff Fahey
“I always like playing the bad guys. They have more fun! I want a director to come up to me and say, "You can't get too weird!" That's a good thing. I loved hearing that. Let me play. I like to play around.” WantPlayGuyFunDirectorsLet MeGood ThingsCome UpHearingBad Guys Author:James Badge Dale
“I don't want to get locked into any one type of genre. I just want to constantly be working with amazing directors and amazing actors, and just always pushing the envelope on what I can do, as an actor.” WantI CanActorsCan DoTypeDirectorsGenrePushingLockedEnvelopesPushing The Envelope Author:Nico Tortorella
“For me, creatively, I'd suffocate if I played the same thing, over and over again. I want challenges. I want to sit down with a director and be like, "I've never done this before, but it's going to be exciting. It's scary, but really thrilling, so let's do it!"” IfsWantDoneChallengesDirectorsExcitingScaryThrilling Author:Alexander Skarsgard
“I want to be fulfilled creatively as an actress and get to be in roles that are meaningful and impactful. I hope the same thing for myself as a director, one day. I want to make things that have an impact on how we look at the world.” WorldWantLooksRolesOne DayDirectorsImpactActressesMeaningfulFulfilled Author:Amandla Stenberg
“You don't pick black actors or black directors because they are black. You pick them because they are good. If you lend somebody 50 million dollars you want you're money back. You don't care if they are oppressed. You just want you're money back.” IfsWantCareActorsBlackMillionsDirectorsPicksDollarsDon't CareOppressedMillion Dollars Author:Denzel Washington
“The greatest directors are the greatest users. They use people's talents to tell the story that they want to tell.” PeopleWantStoriesUseTalentDirectorsUsers Author:Janusz Kaminski
“As a director you want to show the truth of people and sometimes that's unflattering, or it's not something that people want to see.” PeopleWantSometimesShowsDirectors Author:Julian Jarrold
“You would be surprised how many directors don't know what they want. They might not know what they want until they see it, they might know what they want but no idea how to get it out of the actor, then you've both got a problem.” KnowsWantIdeasProblemMightWould BeActorsDirectorsNo IdeaWant U Author:Ian Mckellen
“There are directors, and I think this is true of all directors, it would be true if I was a director - If the actor didn't want to do what I was suggesting, I would let him do it his way, and then I would say to him, "Just give me one where you do what the director wants", and that, of course, is the take that's used.” IfsThinkingWayWantGivingWould BeUsedCoursesActorsDirectorsGive MeBeing TrueSuggesting Author:Ian Mckellen
“Sometimes directors get hired into TV shows, and it's so formulaic and they're a slave to whatever everybody wants them to do. But everyone came in with their own style, and it blended together with the Helix style that was set, and at the same time, they're bringing their own ideas and their own input. It was really fun working with all of them.” WantIdeasSometimesShowsTogetherFunStyleTvsDirectorsSlaveTv ShowsInput Author:Kyra Zagorsky
“Having a good director is very important. It's crucial. When you do good work with a certain director, you want to work with them again, and hopefully vice versa.” WantImportantCertainDirectorsVicesHopefullyCrucialGood WorkVice VersaGood Directors Author:Giles Matthey
“As a director myself, you want to have colleagues and collaborators that respect your authority as the director. I'm very comfortable with that, and I've done a lot of work in second unit.” WantDoneDirectorsAuthorityComfortableUnitsColleaguesCollaborators Author:Roman Coppola
“I think what's fun about the fairytales is just seeing what everybody interprets them as, which comes from the different directors and what they want to do with them.” ThinkingWantDifferentFunSeeingDirectorsFairytale Author:Colleen Atwood
“There are so many directors that I want to work with, but I can't tell you that there's one role. If I knew it, I would write it for myself.” IfsWantWritingI CanRolesDirectors Author:Ayelet Zurer
“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
“Deb Zane, our casting director on the Hunger Games was very sanguine, from the beginning, about just blocking out what everybody else says that they want.” WantGamesDirectorsHungerBlockCastingCasting DirectorsSanguine Author:Nina Jacobson
“I'm a huge fan of director's cuts or reassemblies if they're good, but I remember being really excited about the restored version of Apocalypse Now, and then I preferred the original film. Kingdom of Heaven as a director's cut is the real picture, but in fact someone recently told me that there was another cut, the original first cut, which he said was just extraordinary. I've never seen it - and of course now I want to, if it exists, and so would everybody else.” IfsWantFirstsSaidRealFactsRememberFilmCoursesHeavenCuttingFansHugeDirectorsOriginalsExtraordinaryExcitedKingdomsVersionsBeing RealNow And ThenApocalypseKingdom Of Heaven Author:William Monahan
“I don't think many actors are the best judge of careers. I think generally we have good instincts about what we can do in terms of acting. And often they become directors, which I don't want to be.” ThinkingWantActorsTermCan DoActingCareersJudgingDirectorsInstinct Author:Hugh Jackman
“As a director, your job is to make sure no one for any reason is taken out of the film. Sometimes it's impossible and sometimes things don't come out the way you want them to, but I think you have to work really hard at making the world engrossing and details are a major part of that.” ThinkingWorldWayWantSometimesHardReasonJobsFilmTakenImpossibleDirectorsMajorsDetails Author:Cary Fukunaga
“As a director, you want to be really connected to every part of your set, from your actors all the way to your camera operators. Everybody is a part of the creative process, and if they feel like they're part of a team versus just being a tool, they're going to give you something special.” IfsWayWantGivingFeelsActorsProcessCreativeTeamSpecialDirectorsToolsCamerasConnectedCreative ProcessJust BeingVersusSomething SpecialOperators Author:Eric Balfour
“One of the great things about this cast is that we've been able to take actors of relatively the same age group that would never usually meet. You know, like bridging the comedy/drama world that for some reason casting directors never really want to bridge or you get into one community and that's kind of it.” KnowsWorldWantKindReasonAgeAbleActorsCommunityComedyGroupsDramaDirectorsCastsGreat ThingsBridgesCastingCasting Directors Author:Alison Pill
“I didn't want to be around anybody because it was just too much for my brain. But, as an actress, you hope you get those meaty roles that push you into the extremities of that psychology. I like doing independent films because there's more room for you to be creative, and the director allowed me to just go wherever I needed to go. It was emotional. I had to cry a lot.” WantFilmRoomsBrainRolesCreativePsychologyToo MuchCryEmotionalNeededDirectorsIndependentActressesBe CreativeIndependent FilmExtremity Author:Tinsel Korey
“One thing that is true in TV is that you do hire the directors. As the writer, it's very different than in features, where you feel like, "If I want this to be this way, I better direct it."” IfsWayWantFeelsDifferentOne ThingTvsDirectorsDirectFeatures Author:Zak Penn
“I really want to meet and work with JJ Abrams. Everyone talks about what a nice director he is, and he has kids and stuff, so he sounds really awesome, not to mention he makes awesome movies.” WantKidsStuffSoundNiceDirectorsAbramReally Awesome Author:Ty Simpkins
“Some of my best experiences are with writer/directors. Guy Ritchie is one. I feel they have a clearer view of what they want to do. They haven't got to try and interpret someone's writing; it's all theirs. I really admire that.” WantFeelsWritingTryingGuyViewsHavensDirectorsAdmireBest Experiences Author:Jason Statham
“As somebody who makes his living in the movie business and wants to contribute to it, I think that the best chance I have of doing that is just consistently working with great directors.” ThinkingWantChanceDirectorsConsistentlyMovie Business Author:Matt Damon
“Being known as a writer did change the relationships I had with directors. The rap on actors is that they always want to inflate their parts. But when directors know you write screenplays and have a different view of things, you really get invited into the huddle in a much fuller way. And those collaborations end in friendships.” KnowsWayWantWritingDifferentEndsActorsViewsKnownDirectorsRapCollaborationInvitedScreenplaysDifferent Views Author:Matt Damon
“If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.” IfsWantDirectorsScreenwriters Author:Akira Kurosawa
“We were doing this close-up of my character on a cell phone, and the director's just like "Cut! Can we get somebody else's hand in there?" I do bite my fingernails, and you don't want to see a fat, bitten thumbnail on a 30-foot movie screen, so I get somebody with really nice, sexy hands and put 'em in there.” WantCharacterHandsNiceCuttingFeetDirectorsPhonesSexyScreensFatsCellsEmsBitesCell PhoneReally NiceFingernails Author:Miles Teller
“Whenever I've been asked to be in a film, directors only want me to play myself... I'm fascinated by the thought of being an actor, but it's too hard. And I think Shakespeare-which has been suggested to me-might be a bit of a stretch.” ThinkingWantHas BeensHardPlayMightFilmActorsBitsDirectorsFascinatedWant MeFilm Directors Author:Tom Jones
“With actors and directors, it's a conversation that you have. You have to learn each other's language and learn how to communicate with each other effectively. It's really nice when you can have that communication on a level where they walk up to you and you can see by the expression on their face what they want. You don't even have to talk, it just like, "Got it!" And, you know what they want before they even ask for it.” KnowsWantFacesActorsAsksLanguageWalksLevelsNiceExpressionCommunicationDirectorsConversationCommunicateUp To YouReally Nice Author:Ashton Kutcher
“Certainly as actors, and maybe as directors, you've got to hang on to something childlike. You've got to know what play is. I haven't worked with Mike Leigh, but I know him very well and there's something open in his eyes about what's in front of him. And the same is true of Alfonso in a Mexican, mad way. There's an enthusiastic response to something. Neil Jordan, the same, when he gets excited . You just want to know there's a human being in there.” KnowsWayWantHumansWellsPlayEyeActorsHuman BeingsFrontsHavensLike YouDirectorsMadResponseExcitedHis EyesMexicanMikeEnthusiasticJordanChildlike Author:Alan Rickman
“There are some directors who don't like the set much. They like post-production, where you have all the ingredients in the can - you've got all the footage, all the music, the various effects - and then you have to do the alchemy necessary to make it all good, a long and very key process of putting everything together and making it into the cogent thing that you want.” WantLongTogetherProcessEffectsKeysDirectorsProductionsVariousPostsIngredientsAlchemyPost Production Author:Fred Melamed
“No matter what, when you major in theater arts whether you want to write or be a director or design scenery or whatever, when you are a freshman at UCLA then - I guess it's still the same way - you had to take an acting class.” WayWantWritingArtStillsMatterActingClassDesignDirectorsMajorsTheaterNo Matter WhatSceneryFreshmanActing ClassesUcla Author:Carol Burnett
“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
“The choice that you really have is that you can go and work for TV which is so badly paid that you have to really churn them out which I think probably helps you develop certain muscles. I'm not sure though that you really want to have those muscles as a director.” ThinkingWantHelpingCertainChoicesTvsDirectorsPaidNot SureMuscles Author:Robert Schwentke
“For my first movie, I think my first cut was like three hours, because when you first direct a movie, you want to keep everything. But I'm not one of those directors who falls in love with the stuff they've done. Already when I'm doing my first cut, I'm willing to cut out everything that is necessary.” ThinkingWantFirstsDoneFallThreeStuffHoursCuttingWillingDirectorsDirectFalling In Love Author:Alejandro Amenabar
“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
“All the studios are owned by multinational corporations, which are not usually bastions of the left. So all the actors, writers, and directors - or at least a great majority of them - live in fear because we're all insecure, we all want that next job, we all want to be loved, and we don't want to piss off some studio chief who won't hire us for the next movie.” WantJobsNextActorsLeftDirectorsMajorityStudiosChiefsCorporationsInsecureMultinationalsMultinational Corporations Author:Paul Haggis
“Well, Keith Alexander, the former director of the NSA wants to say every company in the United States falls under one of two categories, those that have been hacked and those that don't yet know it.” KnowsWantWellsHas BeensTwoStatesFallUnitedCompanyUnited StatesDirectorsFormerCategoriesNsaKeithHacked Author:Ted Koppel
“Look, if I were running the FBI, you know, I probably would want to have backdoors as well, so I'm sympathetic to the director's view. But there is risk if you put that backdoor in. There's no question you enhance the risk, number one. Number two, there are the privacy implications that are of concern to parties.” IfsKnowsWantWellsLooksTwoRunningViewsPartyNumbersRiskDirectorsConcernPrivacyImplicationsSympatheticFbiBackdoor Author:Rod Beckstrom
“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
“I try to offer as much as I can to the director so he has as much to work with as possible to create the character that, really, he wants to create in a sense.” WantTryingI CanCharacterOffersDirectors Author:Karen Allen
“Great directors turn in mediocre work and first-time directors turn in exceptional work. No matter how good a person can talk about what he wants, you never know.” KnowsWantFirstsPersonsMatterTurnsDirectorsFirst TimeMediocreExceptional Author:Thomas Jane
“I don't really think I have the personality. I am not very external. I don't want to dance on the table and do impressions. So I think that the way I approach it is really loving story. That's my first love - the words. The words and the story and how to create images. I guess I come at that as a director. I think that's much more in my personality to be a director, so that's kind of informed my acting.” ThinkingWayWantFirstsKindStoriesActingPersonalityDirectorsApproachTablesImpressionFirst Love Author:Jodie Foster