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Rewriting the negative beliefs you have learned is the essence of becoming the director of your life.
Even if my movies weren't big blockbusters, directors generally liked me, so they would fight for me.
In France, I am so free. I have more freedom than most American directors could dare to even imagine.
It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.
If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing.
I deal with guys in their 20s and early 30s who are presidents of companies, who are movie directors.
What I promise to my actors, and to my director, is to give them the salary and everything they need.
I feel like some of the best talent is on TV right now, with the writing, acting and great directors.
Considering that I'm British and I talk the way I do, I love it when a director takes a chance on me.
Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.
Shaping it is something I would expect to do together with a writer, because that's a director's job.
In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background
I'm not interested in being a celebrity; I'm interested in being a better actor and a better director.
A lot of young directors, they're not confident; they're not open to the emotional level of the scene.
One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.
On Ernst Lubitsch: He could do more with a closed door than other directors could do with an open fly.
Critics don't want to see directors they like make too much of a left turn. That's good for criticism.
Personally Im very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors.
Having a director who is also an actor makes for that very relaxed way of working and it's empowering.
Bad directors are the ones who want to tell you every move, and think they're a better actor than you.
No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.
I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.
Todd [Phillips] doesn't care. That's part of his genius as a director, he will say anything to anybody.
In many cases for an actor it's a comfortable position to be in. But it's harder to fail as a director.
If I really want to do something, I'll go in and do whatever the director feels that he needs me to do.
As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.
I would consider doing any part as long as the script is good and the film has an interesting director.
I always want to challenge myself as a writer. I consider myself more of a writer than I do a director.
I'm always being told by directors that I add chemistry to scenes, so I mean how difficult could it be?
The performance is created by the director. The actor is the material. And I think that has to be true.
When I'm filming a kill scene [as a director], I just get happier and happier as we chop up body parts.
I look at life as being cruise director on the Titanic. I may not get there, but I'm going first class.
I believe, as a producer/director, your duty is to create a beautiful horror film that really resonates.
I love having a master. I have no problem serving my director. That's my job. I want to make them happy.
You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.
The thing I loved the most about being art director was picking the photographers and working with them.
Any director will tell you, no matter how big his budget, that it's always the budget and the day count.
I know there were things emanating from me. I was not aware of what attracted all these directors to me.
I've always been a daddy's girl, and that's served me well in life; most of my directors have been male.
I've had a couple opportunities where I've been on the other side of the audition process as a director.
My main interest in being a director, and the most important thing to me, is that world with the actors.
Martin Campbell is a director who has that ability to marshal so many forces together and create a film.
I'd like to think every director I've worked with has fallen in love with me, I know Dorothy Arzner did.
With RoboCop, I couldn't be happier because it's such a quality director.José Padilha is a young master.
There are lots of good directors I would like to work with; I want to be inspired and challenged by them.
One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.
Directors should not be forced to advocate anything in their works because of their demographic identity.
Ultimately, making movies, if you don't have a big star, it's hard to do. Or if it's not a star director.
A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty.
The best times I had on film sets were the times the director let me express myself, but those were rare.