Thomas Jane Quotes

The directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity of the medium and are interested in catching lightning in a bottle.

It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.

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.

I learn a lot from every director that I work with. I sit on set and watch them, every one.

There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.

You just don't know when you get all the paint across the canvas how it will turn out. When you step back after you've finished, you say, 'This one is not so good. This one is good.'

I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really.

I like to just work with great directors.

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

Even a true artist does not always produce art.

People ask me, 'What's your next film?' And I never know.

I think - in general, I don't think I've been involved in a single movie that turned out the way I anticipated it to turn out. Just because, as an actor, there's only so much that I can bring to a project.

If I tried to somehow wrap my head around the fact that Francis Ford Coppola directed my first movie, there's never a slot into which that ever fits in your mind.

There are certain directors who will start talking to you about something, and suddenly you'll be ready to roll, and you'll realize it was very specific.

I was never a good artist.

You can't just express yourself and it becomes a movie. You have to get beyond that.

I have worked with good directors, and I consider myself very lucky because I think that it is very important.

What I hope 'Mastry' ends up doing is completely undermining or doing away with the notion that artists are a savant: that they do things that can't be articulated, driven by inner turmoil they don't have access to.

I believe in the theory that one cannot make a good film; it just happens.

I can work with both the old, revered filmmakers and new directors. It is amazing how they see me in their world, and then I adapt accordingly.

Once you get the script, you then hope you can get the director that you want. Then you hope he can get the cast he wants. Again, you can go quickly or there can be a million stumbling blocks. There's just no way to know.

Derek Jarman shared the responsibility for making the film. He didn't necessarily know what he wanted - he knew what he didn't want - but you had to keep coming up with stuff.

I never think of myself as a celebrity - or even an actor, actually. I think of myself as a writer-director.

The script is what you've dreamed up - this is what it should be. The film is what you end up with.

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