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A good director is very well prepared, and knows exactly how he's going to cut the film, so the shooting is as efficient as possible.
What happens often is the script is written and once the director comes on board you have lots of conversations and it mutates again.
You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.
I'm pretty much a character-driven film director and my movies are smaller. I don't do a lot of coverage. I use lots of master shots.
I've worked with acting coaches, I've been going out on auditions and meeting with casting directors. But I'm not known as an actress.
I always want to do something I haven't done before and get to work with other actors, writers, or directors that I want to work with.
I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.
I am blessed to have got a chance to work with directors like Anurag Kashyap, Vishal Bhardwaj, and Nikhil Advani at such an early age.
(Sometimes when) someone's directing for the first time, they're afraid to include everyone - they have to prove they're the director.
In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.
I wanted to work on a cable show and with a writer/director because that's a much more fulfilling and freeing experience, as an actor.
I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.
It's really hard as a screenwriter, you feel like you have a vision and then you turn it over to a director and you have to let it go.
The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you dont have to shave or hold your stomach in anymore.
There are directors who, their direction is high, but then when you challenge it, it crumbles. They can't back up what they're asking.
As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over.
When you're really working well with a director then you can be as outrageous as you like and so can he. And there's no worry about it.
As a director, you always want things to look good. You're always trying to make things look tidy. That's what we're all trained to do.
When I do go to L.A., it is usually for a reason - to meet with a director or something - but I'm always so happy to go back to London.
There`s only one list that`s more illustrious than the list of directors who won the Palme d`Or. It`s the list of directors who didn`t.
I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.
Some directors were brilliant in the silent era but never felt at home in sound. It's like a sculptor being forced to take up painting.
There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.
They say that theater is the actor's medium, television is the writer's medium and film is the director's medium, and it's really true.
Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work.
So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.
Ang Lee's been nominated for best director for "Life of Pi," which is what I'm going to call the six weeks after I take this dress off.
A first preview is not exactly a pleasant experience for directors and actors. You're never as raw as when the audience first comes in.
I worked with Roger Moore on three episodes of The Saint. He is a lovely man, a good director, and was my favourite actor to work with.
I guess I probably see myself as a director. If I had to choose, I think that that's the aspect of the process that I'm most excited by.
A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.
As an actor, you want a director who makes you feel comfortable in a place that you can really create and try a lot of different things.
I'm always 100% committed to a character, a story and a director, and with Michael Mann it was 1,000%. I don't know how to explain this.
I think a lot of good directors listen to music while they're working. The songs just don't become a part of the film. They're replaced.
I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on.
And there was a very famous man called Michael Powell, who probably is the greatest director all round, except possibly a couple of men.
Writer-director John Roecker's debut, Live Freaky! Die Freaky! will have you convulsing on the floor ... with nausea, laughter, or both.
The secret is you need a director who refuses to walk away and you need a director willing to put their whole career behind the project.
I basically put myself into directors' hands and let them tell me what to do, and the more they told me what to do, the more I liked it.
Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire.
I wish that every director was as interested in doing as much in camera and with physical objects as much as possible as J.J. Abrams is.
If there's any relevant influence we may have with an investor, with a studio, with a director, with an actor, I think we have to fight.
Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that.
There's nothing worse than a director that keeps changing their mind. Because, unlike the directors I work with, I'm not decisive at all.
Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such freedom.
As a director, you should choose a project that will educate you and enrich your life, because you're going to be doing it for two years.
An actor really suffers when the director isn't prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do it fast.
Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.
I joke around sometimes and say that the DP [director of photography] is like a shrink for the director, but there's some truth in there.
As a writer, you have to be willing to kill your darlings, and I'm a writer first. As a director, I've got no problem cutting the scenes.