Bad directors are the ones who want to tell you every move, and think they're a better actor than you.
The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of view, they set the rhythm and they make the final decisions.
It is in the consideration of Love as the director of your behavior, that all the laws of any religion are fulfilled.
I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!
When I'm playing as an actor, I don't want to interfere at all with the director. I'm just an actor. I'm totally respectful.
Theatre is really difficult, so it's important that you have a director that kind of understands that and is really hands on.
When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.
Yet as a director, I don't feel you have to identify with your characters as a requirement to make a movie.
I didn't make 'Wild Bill' because I wanted to become a director; I just wanted to make 'Wild Bill.'
Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique.
I wish that every director was as interested in doing as much in camera and with physical objects as much as possible as J.J. Abrams is.
I'd love it if doors open for me in America. There are directors I'd love to work with there. I'll always do theater, but I've got to pay the mortgage.
The director is a Canadian, Jeff Stephenson, and any time I get a script that has any Canadian component, I'm always immediately much more interested.
First time films are hard. Even with some of the greatest directors, you look back at their first film, and you are just going, 'That movie is kind of bad.'
To me it's like, every time I'm a director, like today, you're the captain of the ship, so you better dress like it. You're the host of the party.
From time to time, there are people in the film industry who appear on the horizon with a unique vision. South African director Neill Blomkamp is one of those rare people.
The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'
I found it to be more challenging to be in a huge effects movie, because a lot of the things aren't there. You have to trust the director and react to nothing.
I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.
I've discovered just how symbiotic the relationship is between writers, directors and actors. They ask the same questions and strip down texts in exactly the same way.
Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire.
