An action choreographer is kind of like a dance choreographer. You choreograph the moves and you let the director, cinematographer take into positioning their cameras.
With 'Anna Karenina,' I just think it's a stunning visual tour de force for a director who is at the top of his game.
A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.
In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a serial kisser refuses to leave me.
A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.
I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm.
As a director, or just a film fan who wants to enjoy the festival, Cannes is the worst place to be. But it must be a paradise for distributors and importers.
Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal.
Honestly, as a director, at least for me, if I start doing the same thing over and over again, I'm going to get bored really quickly.
I tend to project my father figure onto any director that I'm working with, or mother, if I'm working with a female, or it can be confused.
The whole world of 'Game of Thrones' was realized with such detail, with directors and writers who really geeked out and really loved all the little bits of it.
I think audiences, producers and directors included, develop crushes on actors (actresses in particular) and then lose interest and move on to the next one.
They call David O. Russell the actor whisperer because he can get stuff out of actors that maybe some other directors can't.
Usually directors hire me because I'm what they are looking for. But once in a while, and it's very rare, they will hire me and then try to make me over.
A lot of times passion projects or films are difficult to make because they don't have proven directors attached to them.
All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.
I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation.
When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.
I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.
I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors.
When I feel like being a director, I write a novel.
