Roy Orbison Quotes

If you do television, and it's great, it's the best job there is. Every week it's another opportunity to really make that work and figure out how to make it work better. I love that it's like theater too, and the audience, and it's so short, like twenty minutes... It's like a Haiku or something.

I love working with actors. I love visual things. I always intended to be a writer who directs and a director who writes.

I shot this wonderful picture called American Saint a couple of years ago, which is still looking for release.

I just produced Criminal, this remake of Nine Queens, and one of the things that appealed to me about Nine Queens is that it was a performance piece, and that's the most fun.

I was never attracted to being a very proficient singer or player. I suppose I was interested in creating a vision; in the same way I was very drawn to tension within cinema.

Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision.

I'm from the creative side of Hollywood. I'm up for anyone that wants to support my work. If you have eyeballs and give me a budget and are nice to me, I'm in.

It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me.

I enjoy co-directing or even being there just for support because you get to see your script come to aural life in front of you.

There is a company in Barcelona called Headless, and I was a huge fan. I love their style. I had been trying to work with them for years. 'A Monster Calls' was the perfect project to work on with them.

I love working with Bob Zemeckis. I think he's amazing and wonderful to work with.

There's some beautiful filmmaking on television. I'm getting a lot of my artistic sustenance from what's happening there.

A movie is like a city. There's, like, 150 people working, and it's all because of something that came out of your head.

Well, Babyface brings his savoir faire to every project. He's a very easy producer to work with, very detailed in listening to everything.

I would like to thank the 49 actors who appear on screen in 'Whiplash' for realizing Damien Chazelle's vision so beautifully.

Good directing is good writing and good casting.

Roger Ballen is pretty much a member of Die Antwoord, it would be safe to say.

Normally sports day is once a year for kids, where you have fun, and everybody is jostling. For us, making movies is like having sports day everyday: competing with each other, doing your best. It's like that except we don't get awards every day in our sports day.

It was a lot of fun working with Braun Strowman.

We're a band that really... It's important to us to write music and put it out there and to work together.

I love performance, but I'm quite happy making videos as well, and I'm inordinately happy writing songs.

I'd like to produce something with Kanye. Like, my production plus his, I think he'd make something really cool.

I worked with Michael Bay on 'Transformers,' and I got to work with the writer of 'Transformers,' who's this really great guy whom I loved.

If your director knows what he wants on screen, it makes things easier.

I do have aspirations when it comes to directing, I suppose, but in a sort of a vague way. It would probably come about if I found a project that I really felt passionate about.