Deepika Padukone Quotes

I would just imagine there's a criticism for just about everything, if you want to take something down. No one's invincible. The Jicks are a work in progress and we don't think everything we do is the bee's knees or something, we're just trying our best to get turned on by what we're doing.

I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.

I'm probably tougher on myself than I used to be. I'll revise my lyrics more. Part of that is working with the right people and producers who will say, 'How can you make that better?' Allowing yourself to collaborate with people will push you toward transcendence.

Success and failure are a part of filmmaking.

I don't look at 'Deadpool' and think, 'Oh, that's a perfect movie.' I look at it and go, 'Oh, God, there's so much stuff I could do better.'

Denzel Washington: I like the collaboration, I like seeing people do well, so I really plan to direct the rest of my days.

The best advice I have is keep writing, keep practicing, keep winning, losing and understanding the difference. Never stop learning, never stop pushing yourself. Then find yourself a team you can work well with and help make awesome things happen.

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

I definitely want to work with people who are artists and who are interested in being their best version of themselves.

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.

I think when you make a movie, one of your main focuses as a director is to inspire everyone else to give their best. Like manipulation.

That is an amazing experience, because we with director Christian Petzold know whenever we criticize each other, it's for the best, and you don't find that very often, that you trust each other so much. That's a special thing.

Directing is such alchemy, it's so easy to fail. And I've seen people who are great at their jobs because everybody has a go. Editors, DPs, actors, craft services guy, everybody wants to try it out but it is such a diffuse but necessary set of skills that you never know which one this person might lack.

Until you look forward to all criticism, your Work's not done.

I'm my own biggest critic, and the only way I'm going to improve is to see what I was doing wrong.

I criticize my own work pretty harshly.

I don't care about the size of the roles, or how they're marketed or billed or anything like that. I would love to be a part of stories that tell us about where we've come from, where we are, where we're going - with great directors.

On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.

As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how to just do things and work with good people.

Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.

I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.

I truly feel the best doctors are ones who are criticized by nurses, patients and family. They do not make excuses and learn from their mistakes.

I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.

The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.