Rupert Sanders Quotes

I make movies based on gut.

I can only go with my gut and say what I would like to do, and then my producer comes in and makes it happen.

I think, you have to forget about intellect, to a degree. Intuition is very important when you're working with a lens, I believe, for what the lens is doing, too.

You make a movie and it's like convincing people to go on an expedition with you. You think you know where it's going to end up, and you're hoping and guessing. But, when people trust you and get involved, based on that trust, it's a really nice feeling to be able to have everything pay off.

If a leader goes with their gut, it should be after listening first to people they trust.

You don't make a film because the audience is ready for it. You make a film because you have questions that are in your gut.

I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.

You have to listen to the movie while you're making it. I think that's important.

Making a movie is a lot of problem solving.

I like to do things sort of intuitively, I think.

I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.

My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.

I choose films based on gut instinct.

As a director, when you embrace a project, you try to understand as much as you can about its world, and you do that by embracing and engaging with people who are in that world. Then it's down to your best instincts, which is what most directing is about anyway.

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

In order to make a film, you have to operate on many different levels, making all these different forms of expression converse, and so I just followed that intuition.

John Logan pretty much does the Woody Allen thing of just bringing people in and meeting them.

One thing I've learned as an actor as well as a producer is to trust my own instinct. When I first started acting I would sometimes have ideas about certain things, whether it's a scene, or a character or certain dialogue, that wouldn't be followed. I was never in a position to have the power to press the matter. Sometimes it wasn't even about my character. But I'd watch the movie afterwards and think I was right.

Being a director it's mean - digging deep in yourself as well. I think the deeper I understood the material and the script and the themes and the characters, I felt the more confident I was and the more I could bring to the movie. So I was lucky to have my actors because they were right there with me in the deep end.

I feel like people can feel when something is natural. I think they can tell.

As a director myself, you really appreciate collaborating with people who are trying to help you find what you need and what you want.

I think I'm true to myself - you hear that actors have like plans. I'm gonna do this type of movie, then I'm gonna play this kind of character, and that'll get me from A to B. I've never done that. I honestly just follow my gut and I don't think you can go wrong with that.

Sometimes I'll trust my gut more than my head. Logical information might lead me in one direction and my feelings in another. Whereas I would have followed my head ten years ago, now I'm as likely or more likely to go with my gut feeling. It's ironic - you'd think the opposite would be true as you move to the top but it's not.

When I made my first film, I think the thing was probably helped me the most was that it was such an unusual thing to do in the early 50s for someone who actually go and make a film. People thought it was impossible. It really is terribly easy. All anybody needs is a camera, a tape recorder, and some imagination.

I like it when people are kind and I like people who are looking for collaborators. Sometimes you can feel like a moving prop, and that could be amazing, you can be a prop in somebody's incredible vision, but I'm more interested in people who are looking for actors they can collaborate with and make something together with. I like stretching myself, I like trying new things out, but I'm really interested in working with directors who have a very specific style and a unique way of working.