Douglas Booth Quotes

I love working with directors who have good taste. It's incredible when a director can say something and things open up for you. I went to The University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and some of my best experiences on sets have been working with other alums.

Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.

I love the process of working with a filmmaker and the writers and the actors.

My biggest inspiration is to work with interesting filmmakers and learn from them in any way that I can.

For me, it was all about working with an inspirational filmmaker.

I've been really lucky in terms of film projects with people, terrific actors and also writers and directors that I really respect.

Obviously I would love to work with all these great directors like the Coen Brothers, Tarantino. Robert Rodriguez is a dream director of mine.

Films are not mathematics - that's the first thing you need to understand. At least, that's how I feel. They are not words on paper. Films are made with people, with teams and with individual bundles of creativity coming together to fulfill the vision of an individual who is the director of the film.

I definitely managed to do different kinds of things. My focus is usually who the director is, because at the end of the day the director is the storyteller, what the movie is all about. I don't want to participate in something that I don't think is constructive storytelling.

Tim Story is a fantastic director, and I'm so excited to get to work with him.

I guess I feel like it's a gift to meet those talented artists like George Lucas and Oliver Stone, Spike Lee and Richard Kelly. Even if it's a small role, it's a gift to be working that closely with them.

When the director has a vision for a piece that I've never heard before, and they can back that up with visuals, and they talk a good game, I get really interested in the world that they're trying to create.

You go through this business and you meet people that you bond with, and you get to go make movies with them. It's wonderful. What I've always dreamt of, in my career, is to have a brotherhood of collaborators, and go in and out of working with them. I'm just starting to get that, and it's really lovely.

I would love to work with Cameron Crowe; he's definitely one of my favorite directors.

With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.

I have no directing ambition whatsoever. And as long as I meet filmmakers like Tom Hooper, Stephen Frears, and others who allow that collaboration, I can't see why I would ever want to direct.

I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.

I'd work with Danny Boyle every day of the week. No matter what he was doing I would do that.

I just enjoy working with really wonderful actors and amazing creative people and I hope to keep doing that, no matter where.

I would love to work with Shane Meadows - great director.

Over the years with movies, I've given directors notes.

In the life of a director - these days in particular - when it really does take so long to do a movie, with a few exceptions, actors may never work with a director again, even if they're great friends.

Denis Villeneuve is such a wonderful filmmaker. I just feel nothing but grateful to have worked with him and to have a chance to learn his language of filming.

I want to work with Darren Aronofsky, Damien Chazelle, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and, of course, Majid Majidi.

I am very happy to be working with so many talented directors and writers, who are penning scripts that are interesting for me.