David Thewlis Quotes

I have enjoyed all the artists I've worked with.

If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.

All of the directors I've worked with I have loved and would work with again. I have no favorites.

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

I worked with people I admire; Josh Lucas, who I'd worked with many many years ago on a pilot called The Class of 61 and Kurt Russell, and so there were a variety of different people that I enjoyed working with.

I mean, it's amazing that I get to meet all these people. I've learned so much from all of them. I just worked with Sofia Coppola and that was amazing. I learned so much from her. I can't even describe how much fun I had.

'The Replacements' is where I met Jon Favreau, and we just clicked like, you know, like kids at a camp. And he wrote my next movie, which was 'Made.'

To me, the more dialogue amongst creative types, the better. It keeps people on their toes, and competition is healthy.

I've done so many movies and TV that you get to be friends with everyone.

My collaborations tend to be pretty organic. It starts off with me being a fan first.

I share different relationships with all directors. I share a beautiful working relationship with Anurag Kashyap. Sriram Raghavan is such an inspiration and I have always wanted to work with them. I gel really well with filmmakers like these.

This is the good thing about commercials, is one week I'm working with Derek Cianfrance and the next week I'm working with another really good friend.

I'm glad that so many directors are keen to work with me.

Some of the artists I've been working with it's been just work, you know what I'm saying? But in the industry I feel like the relationship is stronger than the work sometimes.

These actors who were in 'Dope' are the actors I want to continue to collaborate and make films with from here on out.

When people get to see me interact with the creative giants, they see the perspective and the respect. A lot of times, people don't have that respect, from a music perspective, with the music people.

I've only ever gone into studio films with people I really like.

When you think back in history about producers and artists or writers who've had good synergy, a lot of times they date, or they're married, or there's a friendship and a kinship.

Actors and directors work on things together. That's how I like to work, anyway. I don't want to be told what to do. I want to share it with someone and work it out together.

Having a connection and chemistry with a director is really key.

When you have a situation where you're hanging out with 20 or 30 other artists, then there's insane amounts of creativity in the room.

Working with Hrithik Roshan was amazing. I have learned so much from him.

I think whether you're old or young, we're all trying to do the same thing, and it's random who we click with. Ideally, you'd want to collaborate with a Christopher Nolan or somebody like that, starting out, and build those friendships.

I'm lucky to be surrounded by incredibly talented people at Pixar, of course, and I learn a lot from them each and every day.

That is always really fun when you get to work with a director you understand and uses references you can identify with.