Louis Leterrier Quotes

I did a lot of theater, so especially as an on-camera camera actor, there are so many things that aren't in your toolbox. They're somebody else's job. You think about editors and rhythm. Volume isn't even in your control.

You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie.

You have to have wonderful actors for material, particularly difficult material that requires complicated performances.

It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it.

I always go for just really, hopefully, great writing and great acting, being in the company of great actors.

When you're on set with an actor like Derek Jacobi, it's not hard to tell the truth when you're looking in his eyes, and he's so open and creative and ready to play.

A lot of actors, we aren't that special; you get a well-written scene, and it's virtually actor-proof.

As a director, you see something in someone; you know it's there, you just got to go get it. You do that with any actor. That's your job.

I wrote 'Aadukalam' keeping Dhanush in mind. As an actor, he delivers exactly what I need and sometimes more.

For me, the more talented the actor is that I'm working with, the easier my job is because the circumstances of a scene are easier to believe when the people around you are in the moment just as much as you are.

I like a lot of takes. I just go on until the actors get it right.

It's not easy to act, but to direct to act. It goes form one place to the next. It's not heading for the punchline, and also it's not about scoring goals. It's about passing the ball, and the goals will come by themselves.

To be a great actor you just need to comprehend, so that's why I became a writer.

The process of doing a play is an organic one, and the process of doing a film is totally inorganic.

The great thing about stage is that you have more control. The stage is yours. The time is yours. Film is really the editor's medium.

I'll say it, I love working with actors, I'm a fan of actors. They bring so much, and they can also break a movie, but when it works I give it all to the actors. I'll say it, I think that 'The Transporter' is great not because of my direction, it really is great because Jason Statham was great in it.

There's so much emphasis on Daniel Day-Lewis and his process, which is appropriately his own. But I was just blown away by his generosity as an actor. He's so giving as an actor that he just naturally commands the focus on set.

In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression.

That's the only way to do it. Just like an actor. You can get a great performance if you do a bunch of takes and edit it. You find the moments and string them together.

Actors always feel more comfortable when there's an actor directing, in terms of vocabulary and breaking down a scene.

When you get a good script, and the director gives you proper lines, half your job is done.

I think like an actor when I'm acting, and I think like a director when I'm directing.

They were always my favourite scenes working with Don Warrington. He's such a brilliant actor, he has such a presence, you don't have to act with him you just react you know he's so good.

It is very nice to have good actors with you.

There's so much control of the audience's experience when you're on stage doing a play, whereas when working on camera, there's a lot of people that have to do a lot of things exactly right for anything that I do to matter at all.