“I'm always looking for a way to surprise audiences. That's, I feel, my job as a director. I felt that Amy Adams playing a tough woman in 'The Fighter' was a surprise. People saw her as a princess.” PeopleWayFeelsJobsFeltAudienceSawsDirectorsToughSurpriseFighterPrincessAmyTough Women Author:David O. Russell
“Stallone is a pretty tough director. You don't mess with him.” DirectorsToughMess Author:Dolph Lundgren
“We really enjoy that, having a relationship with writers, developing material and getting a director, actors, that we have kind of that family kind of as a group we're going to do it together mentality in a project. Then the tough part is - so what actually goes has very little to do with us sometimes.” KindLittlesSometimesTogetherActorsEnjoyGroupsMaterialsDirectorsProjectsToughDevelopingMentality Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman
“A writer/director is a tough thing to gauge when someone hasn't directed a movie before. You just don't know. Sometimes it will be a great script that's written beautifully, and then the director who has also written it does not have the facility to translate it.” KnowsDoeSometimesWrittenDirectorsToughScriptsTranslateFacilityGaugesTough Things Author:Richard Ayoade
“People think women directors are tough. Truth is, I'm a pussycat and I hate conflict. I just want everyone to be happy on set.” PeopleThinkingWantHateTruth IsDirectorsConflictToughI Hate Author:Julie Delpy
“I'm not tough when it comes to people criticizing the people that I protect, and those are the actors. It makes them scared to do it again for another director.” PeopleActorsDirectorsProtectToughScaredCriticize Author:Lee Daniels
“We, as women, often believe that we have to endear ourselves by acting modestly. But that leads personnel directors to think: Anyone who gives themselves away so cheaply cannot be very good. On that point, women need to get much, much more self-confident and tough.” ThinkingNeedsGivingBelieveSelfActingDirectorsToughVery GoodPersonnelSelf Confident Author:Kristina Schroder
“You know, boy versus girl. But she's a tough warrior, so I almost treated it like unisex. But it makes a difference how tall the actors are, because I needed to know that if Olivia Wilde sits in a car that the director, Joe Kosinski can still get the angle he wants, as opposed to maybe in another vehicle than Jeff Bridges has to sit in. So that was fascinating. Because in a real car you change everything and adjust it. But here you have one shot.” IfsKnowsWantStillsRealGirlActorsDifferencesBoysCarNeededDirectorsShotsToughTreatedWarriorBridgesMaking A DifferenceFascinatingTallVehicleAngleVersusWildeOliviaUnisex Author:Daniel Simon
“But then male directors also have a hard time getting their movies made... not as hard as women but it's a tough time for any movie this size. And that particular movie [The Hurt Locker] was so specific. It couldn't hurt, of course, and I'm really glad for her, but I don't know how much it will change things, if at all. The film industry is still so sexist.” IfsKnowsMadeStillsHardFilmCoursesHurtKnow HowParticularIndustryDirectorsToughMalesSizeGladHard TimesTough TimesSexistFilm IndustryLockersHurt Locker Author:Nicole Holofcener
“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
“When you're a screenwriter, it's like being a mechanic. You open the hood of the story, the director is the driver, and he says, "What do you think? It's a little tough."” ThinkingLittlesStoriesDirectorsToughDriversMechanicHoodScreenwriters Author:Thomas Bidegain
“I think Jesse Eisenberg is such a great writer. He was a great director and really tough.” ThinkingDirectorsToughGreat Writers Author:Parker Posey
“It is tough to be a woman. Also as an actor, but more so as a director. And even more today, when distributors and producers are looking at different kinds of films and maybe not necessarily what a woman would want to do.” WantKindDifferentTodayFilmActorsDirectorsToughProducersDifferent KindsDistributors Author:Liv Ullmann
“Those first memories of my modeling career are not my favorite. At the beginning, it was tough. I was very lucky, my career took off very quickly, but still. All the memories I have about first casting in general - they're not nice. Just because there's so many girls, so much competition. I don't blame those casting directors, they see so many girls and they can't be nice to everybody. But you don't feel like a person, you feel like a number.” FeelsFirstsPersonsStillsGirlMemoriesNumbersCareersNiceLuckyDirectorsToughBlameCompetitionMy FavoriteBeing NiceCastingModelingCasting Directors Author:Bianca Balti