Ruby Dee Quotes

You need these experiences. Just know that sometimes, the director has a specific look in mind.

When it comes to writing musicals, you write the best piece you can. Then, its destiny is in the hands of the actors and the director.

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

A film is a director's vision... there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have.

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 can be a smarty-pants director, but that won't matter if the movie doesn't work emotionally as well as intellectually.

Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.

I think what makes a good actor's director is somebody who understands what I'm doing and is respectful of it, but who also has a vision and is directing me toward their vision in a way that feels productive.

I believe that the director is really the soul. It is a collaborative effort, but the director is the one who needs to have that vision. It could be a great script, but it starts from there. You need to have good material, at least, but if you don't have someone with vision, it's just words.

The dream, I think, with any project is it starts with an idea, and then somebody writes it, and the writer hopes that a director comes on and makes this piece of material visual, and both the director and writer hope that they can have actors come in and bring something to it that neither one of them expected, elevating it along the way.

Baz Luhrmann is a very visual director. He needs to see things as they would unfold in his world.

Your job as a director is to study the show, understand the show, understand the vibe, the tone, the characters.

I would say that all my films have more content than a 'content-driven film.' It is not easy to make such films.

Filmmaking is a creative process so there is a lot of collaboration that happens on set between an actor and director, but at the end of the day, we're there to actualize the director's vision and things happen organically.

The thing is, as a film director, you're essentially alone: You have to tell a story primarily through pictures, and only you know the film you see in your head.

Directing talent is very nebulous. You know, it's not in front of you like an actor's performance.

A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together.

As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.

My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, they're storytellers because they're directing where your focus is going to be as an audience.

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.

Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from, and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.

Every frame and every scene has to have an intention.

I feel like a lot of directing is casting.

I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.

There's got to be something you want to tell and that's the engine which spurs all of the work you have to do in order to create the story, but you have to love some sort of nugget of what you're telling to be a filmmaker.