Kurt Russell Quotes

I always used to associate good directors as being ones who are totally extreme and have an answer for everything and there are no loose ends.

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They listen to ideas and make people feel like everyone is making the film.

I have always believed that when a film is being made, it has to be the director's vision.

All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that you have a script and it's very linear.

With a film, you try to keep your vision in it. I think with 'The American' and 'Control' I managed to do that.

Films are a director's medium. We're all stemming from the director.

I always try to approach a film from the point of view of the director.

I think the success of any movie is dependent upon it being a singular vision.

He [Oliver Stone] is great. I really like working with directors who know what they want and aren't afraid to tell you, "Do it like this. Don't do it like that."

The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.

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.

Tim also has enough confidence so that it always looks like a Tim Burton film, but it really is collaborative. You're allowed to do it your way but of course he's always going to choose his way.

To me, the director is the most important, rather than the story.

Although filmmaking is collaborative and involves trust, ultimately it is the director who holds the whole picture together in their head.

The reason I took on directing a film myself was because, no matter how skilful a director was or how much I liked the film, there'd always be beats where I'd go, 'Oh... well, that's skilful, in a way, but it doesn't get the flavour I'd intended in the script.'

I think people think of auteurs as being a dictator shouting over everyone about his vision. That's not the way I think of auteurs or the way I work.

I always wanted to direct. Directing is a lot more of a commitment though, a lot more time. I like directors who do very few takes, they know what they want.

Your director is your everything and you devote yourself to them and you want to help create their vision.

You know I want to be a director, but you could never truly see the movies in my head and that, Ed, is why we broke up.

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

The best films are because of nobody but the director.

I can't imagine any director directing a screenplay of mine, because the great directors all have very personal styles, and the ones that don't are not very interesting directors.

My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while framing a better shot.

I do believe that there are auteurs, in the sense that there are filmmakers with very strong voices and their voices are communicated on to the screen without a lot of compromise.