Taylor Handley Quotes

I have very strong relationships with my actors when I'm shooting. When you love an actor's work, you always feel you have to go further, and you make several films together. One film just gives you time to get acquainted.

Sometimes when an actor and director work together for the first time, it's not as if there's a suspicion, but there is tentativeness, a certain amount of a right of passage you have to go through in order to get there. When it's already there from the beginning, it's such a plus.

The relationship between an actress and her director is often a very close one.

I find I like to work with a lot of the same actors, because I find that there's sort of shorthand there, and there is this unspoken trust, both ways. They trust me and I trust them. And I know what I'm going to get from them, to an extent. It's just fun, kind of creating this little family.

I'm used to working with the director and producer, and that's my relationship. It's very simple.

I've worked with Tim Burton five times, and it's just like being part of a family; life doesn't get much better than that.

I see my actors as my collaborators.

I care a lot about who I'm working with as directors and other actors.

It's important that the director and actor have good chemistry, and not just the actors.

I tend to get hired because the filmmakers like what I do, so there's usually not that much conflict about the direction.

I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with.

Use people whom you're excited by and who share your excitement... The ideal collaboration is one in which the actor and director are saying to each other, 'I can't believe how lucky we are to be making a movie together.'

Working with Omarion is pretty amazing. That's like my brother. He's really cool.

I would never butt heads with Rob Zombie. I don't know anybody that's in acting that ever butted heads with Rob Zombie. I adore Rob. I adore him. I adore working with him. I adore knowing him. I'm happy to consider myself a friend and someone who he hires. I just think he's great.

Out of all the actors I have worked with, I love working with Larry Hagman the most. We were very close and it was just a wonderful time.

What goes on between the actor and director is sacred.

The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very, very collaborative.

From that first meeting, I totally loved working with Joey, it was a real collaboration.

I mean, I'm willing to do anything with Chris Chulack - he's one of my favorite directors I've ever worked with, and I just think he's a fantastic man, and a great creator, and a good friend.

I'd work with Danny Boyle every day of the week. No matter what he was doing I would do that.

I believe the better I can write on my own, the better I can be of service in a co-write. The big thing with a co-write is trust, and it's not so much what you get the first time you sit down with that writer. It's the relationship that you build that you're in. So you can trust throwing out all your ideas and how strong you think they might be.

I think the movie business, you meet people, and you work intensely with them, and you have these relationships - there's an intimacy to it and a familiarity to the relationship because you're having to let go of all your barriers so you can let people in and work with them.

I have two or three guys that I'm really close to. We have a great friendship, and I think that helps our songwriting relationship. It's hard to start... with new people and cover the ground that I've covered with those guys.

To work with the same director is a great feeling.

If you understand each other's way of thinking, you understand what kind of film someone is trying to make, and all the ideas that I come up with will fit into that film.