Quotes of: Film-directors Keyword

When you're working on a film, it's almost like photographing paintings at a museum. You're photographing somebody else's world. I just try and interpret it and make it real, and make it what the actors are about, what the director is about, and what...

Mary Ellen Mark

I really ought to try and make a film that's a bit more cynical. But I don't think I'd know how to do it. I think what it is, is that if you're a film director, you're basically there because you enjoy manipulating people's emotions.

Nigel Cole

Here is something no real celebrity will ever tell you: film acting is not very fun. Doing the same thing over and over again until, in the director's eyes, you 'get it right' does not allow for very much creative freedom... In terms of sheer adrenal...

Mara Wilson

Awards are important for all directors because they improve your working conditions. You're only as good as your last film, so if you get prizes or large audiences, then you get more money for your next film.

Michael Haneke

My father's films are often very slow for the modern audiences, which are used to a lot of editing. It's the audience that watches the film instead of the director dictating the reaction he wants from you.

Isabella Rossellini

Going into my second film as a director, it's night and day of what it was like going into my first film. It doesn't matter what you know in your head and what you've been taught until you're there and doing it; it's a whole new ball game.

Derek Magyar

Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape ...

Vidya Balan

As a director, you're a bit of a dictator. But I feel that you're a better director if you're open to other people's ideas. It means that it's tougher: you have to be in a choosing process; you have to put the ego aside. As long as everybody's aiming...

Denis Villeneuve

The best times I had on film sets were the times the director let me express myself, but those were rare.

Mara Wilson

It's the first film that I made where the director was not present under the camera, and it threw me.

Leslie Caron

A film is a director's vision... there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have.

Natasha Richardson

Actors rarely stay in touch with directors after they've filmed together. We go back to real life.

Chloe Sevigny

I like to be able to understand the feeling of the director, that a film corresponds to something in his life. Otherwise, it doesn't interest me much.

Louis Garrel

I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story.

Donnie Yen

I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.

Andrea Arnold

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

Alan Cumming

A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.

Alan Parker

You can work really hard on your physicality, on your craft, on the films you do. You can choose the best of directors, the best of productions, get the best technicians, you can put your entire body and soul into the making of a film, but at the end...

Abhishek Bachchan

I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar' on stage. We warmed up for Patti Smith, and then the director Michel Gondry got on the drums to play some songs from the soundtrack to his film Be Kind Re...

Saffron Burrows

I'd love to do a Michel Gondry film. That would be ideal! I'd love to do an Almodovar film; you know, I think he's very, very talented. I don't care that people say he's pretentious. So what? He's a good director; he can be pretentious.

William Moseley

It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don...

Drew Barrymore