Being an actor is great; you chill in your trailer, and they bring you a breakfast burrito and coffee. But as director, you're responsible for every little thing.
Do you imagine Sergio Leone with a philosophy? Come on! He was a primitive of movies, a great director on set.
I would be a terrible director, I could never write anything. One of my great strengths is that I know all of my weaknesses.
I always used to say, as a director, that I could make anybody good in a movie if you found the right part. It all comes down to casting.
You have to write a good score that you feel good about. At least, you're supposed to. But, if the director hates it, it ain't going to be in the movie!
I majored in Chinese Studies. I'm probably the only director of chicken Indian zombie movies who can speak pretty good Mandarin.
The directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity of the medium and are interested in catching lightning in a bottle.
There are two qualities that I've noticed in good directors: One is that they have their vision very strongly in place; and two is that they listen to everyone's opinion and still remember their vision.
Good directors can bring certain things out of you, with their intensity or gentleness or sensitivity or understanding. They can make an actor feel he can do no wrong.
Directors sometimes have good ideas that I wished I'd had, not on rewriting but simply on staging.
In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny.
A director recommended me for the role on 'Soap.' They said, 'She plays heavy roles, murderesses and the like.' He said, 'On stage, she could be very very funny.'
I loved being in the room with Mamet as a director - he is the most generous, funny, delightful person to work for every day.
In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
I'm always surprised when some director says, 'When I saw this film, that changed my life.' I don't have that.
I love the work, I love being in front of the camera and working with actors and directors and creating something. For me, it's like learning everyday.
I love those films where I feel the director's confidence - where he doesn't need to overdo it with the shots and the cuts.
Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
I don't like actors who try to talk directors into making their part bigger and that's really lame.
