Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
I do a film because I like the story and I want to give life to a character - I don't necessarily have to agree with the director.
The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.
Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids to direct me.
I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine.'
If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing.
I love having a master. I have no problem serving my director. That's my job. I want to make them happy.
Do you know what I'm working on now? My first feature as a director.
A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.
I was called the greatest director in Europe, but I was just a hard worker.
There were many, many other 'Django' films following mine, with other actors and directors, but there is only one 'Django.'
One of the things that takes a bit of getting used to on an American series is having a different director, and often writer, every week.
I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.
You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.
I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.
The majority of people know me as a dancer, but they don't also know that I'm a director, a songwriter and a producer.
Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process.
I'm not a director to make an action or horror film. That's not for me.
Long before I ever started acting, believe it or not, I always knew I wanted to be a director.
I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.
