If you have a screaming angry director, everyone else will be panicked as well.
I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me.
I think of myself as a meat-and-potatoes kind of director.
I started my career as an actor, but I've been a director for 15 years now.
Part of an actor's job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how he tries to work.
To work with a director that has emotional commitment and passion toward the characters, and the piece, and the experiences, it only enriches your work.
It's so hard to find a director who, when you look at their body of work, you like everything.
When I make films, I work with Mike Leigh, who's the most prolific director in England.
You can be a smarty-pants director, but that won't matter if the movie doesn't work emotionally as well as intellectually.
I happen to have worked with male directors who don't understand women at all. Not at all. I'm flabbergasted by their ignorance.
a dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. a man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
Karna is a good man, but he sees good even in what is bad. His seeing it as good doesn't make the bad good, but makes his goodness look bad.
Taking the first step with the good thought, the second with the good word, and the third with the good deed, I enter paradise.
A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.
I try to be a good person. I know what my downfalls are, so that's a good thing.
When you hire good people, and you provide good jobs and good wages and a career, good things are going to happen.
Typecasting is a good thing. It's good to be known for what you do.
It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.
I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan.
The best times I had on film sets were the times the director let me express myself, but those were rare.
