Helen Mirren Quotes

Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you're not going to get anywhere.

I've worked with a lot of great directors.

I can count on one hand the directors who actually directed me.

There's always been a struggle with filmmakers between art and industry, and you have to find a balance.

I'm very thankful to directors and filmmakers who consider me in their films, and I hope I'm able to do justice to their films.

My father always watches my films and gives his opinion. I am even ready to reshoot at times if he asks me to.

It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.

When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me.

Movies are certainly a director's medium, so getting the opportunity to work with really good directors is everything to me.

Every director is different, but the insights from new people on set give you a different opinion and perspective, which is always embraced, in some way.

The difference between being an actor and a director is simple. The director has to hide his panic; the actor doesn't.

To get into another person's mindset and what they are trying to do with their project is a challenge, and it is what I like.

In a way, editing is not unlike the movies. The best books, just like the best movies, are a collaboration. They're only as good as the compromise made between the artists involved.

And I just want to work with good directors and good people.

When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that director's vision, and I'm totally open for that.

I'm a believer in trusting the director.

I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.

I have so much respect for directors. It's a tremendous amount of pressure; you have to keep steadfast and keep what you know is right.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it. But you look at the project and think, 'Gee, there are a lot of good directors who could do that.' I'd like to do something only I can do.

I'm a filmmaker; I want to make films. I don't want to sit in a hotel room waiting to make films, and I can control my thing in Denmark; I can make the film I want to make... of course, I have to write a good script, all that, but if I do my job, it will happen.

If you can sing together, you can live together.

As far as writing or directing a film, I've worked with enough people who have done that that I know it's just a whole other level of responsibility and chaos and murder that I could not see happening. For now, I'm just going to see what comes. I know what I like and what direction I have.

If we have any hope for survival of the music that we all love, compassion must replace name-calling, fairness must replace greed, and we need to come together as a musical community and try to understand each other's problems.

I'm a filmmaker. I'm always searching for the truth in everything I do. I demand it from my writing partner and my crew, actors, and so hopefully, we're making people think.