Peter Jackson is a wonderful man. He's a great director. He's found his niche in life.
We had a great dramatic society in school, and that's where I first got exposure both as an actor and director.
My passion is becoming involved in good work, whether that means as an actor or writer or director or producer or all - that is not as important to me.
Any good director, and I've worked with a few that I would call very good, they know how to disarm any anxieties very quickly.
A lot of really good directors have a killer in them, as if they'd do anything to get that image. But that comes with the terrain and I don't mind it.
I'm just trying to find a good project. Work with a good director, someone I really admire. Find a good role.
You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you more miserable and get a good take.
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.
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.
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 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.
