Frank Oz Quotes

When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that director's vision, and I'm totally open for that.

All the director wants is their idea of the movie to be believed in.

Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you're out of view.

Though all actors do not make good directors, Dhanush is really one of the finest. He knows exactly how to direct an actor to extract the performance the way he wants it. Perhaps that is happening because he is a performer himself.

I don't think there is a movie that I've been on that I wasn't sure I could direct it better. But certainly also, as a director of photography, I have to serve the movie in whatever way I can as a filmmaker.

Directors are the fulcrum of the movie. They guide us well, not merely rein actors in. Whenever we stray, they bring us back on track.

I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is.

Every actor wants to direct.

Acting's fine if the script's written by Paddy Chayefsky and Martin Scorsese directs it, but unless you have something like that, I don't really enjoy acting.

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.

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

Film work can be very interesting, but it also can be awfully boring because who creates the film? The actors? No. It is the director. It's his piece of work.

Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.

If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.

Well, obviously I was excited by the idea that Woody Allen was going to direct it. But at the same time, the script itself and the character was really interesting.

Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.

I love writing. I think writing and directing go hand in hand.

There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a pro.

I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing.

I'm not a huge kind of visual director. For me, it's all about the acting. There's no greater buzz than working with actors and seeing what they can do and how much they can improve on what you'd written. That will always be on the top of my list. It's a real privilege to see it live before anyone else sees it.

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.

It's very rare you get a director who's that invested in the actors. So yeah, when 'Little Fish' came around, there wasn't much negotiation!

After making 'Secretary,' it was a real shock to me to learn that some directors just aren't interested in what actors have to say. They just don't want to collaborate.