Eve Arnold Quotes

I share an office with Jason Sudeikis, and I'm friends with him, so I end up writing for him a lot.

Scott Aukerman and Judd Apatow are two people who I owe a lot to, and it's always great to work with Scott whenever I can.

David Fincher is a longtime friend. As a director, my wife had worked with him as a makeup artist when he would do Madonna videos years before, and his child and my oldest child were in preschool together, so we're kind of dad-friends through that, too.

Jennifer Aniston and I have always just really gotten along well... I was just fortunate to be a good fit for parts in her films.

Now I want to work with Octavia Spencer, because I met her and she's really funny.

Robert Mapplethorpe, I met in 1967. He was a student at Pratt, though even as a student a fully formed artist. We went through many things in our life together. He became my loved one, then my best friend.

As far as an actor-director connection, I think those can develop, and when they do, they're really great, and you just cultivate it like you would any relationship or friendship. If you find that something special, it helps down the line when you want to do more projects with each other.

I'd been working with Chuck Lorre since the dawn of time, starting with 'Dharma and Greg,' so when I get a call about a really cool opportunity to work with him, I say yes, even before I know what it is.

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

Don Was is a friend of mine; we've done projects together over the years.

Sometimes when an actor and director work together for the first time, it's not as if there's a suspicion, but there is tentativeness, a certain amount of a right of passage you have to go through in order to get there. When it's already there from the beginning, it's such a plus.

It's important that the director and actor have good chemistry, and not just the actors.

I've worked with Judd since 'Undeclared,' and once you work with Judd you never stop working with Judd.

I know Alexandra Shipp personally, and that would be really cool to work with her.

Joel Little and I have this certain chemistry we have when we work together.

My chemistry with Salman goes long back, and we have a great equation. Doing a film with him is no less than a dream.

I've worked with Jagapathi Babu in four films and the two of us are great friends.

I had the great fortune to actually become friends with Sam [Fuller] and ultimately collaborate with him on White Dog, which we wrote together.

What I love about directing is finding common ground in complementary palate with wardrobe, set design, the camera department, the makeup department, et cetera. I love figuring out that synergy. To have everything work in concert is amazing, I love working with that kind of logic. Directing is a cavalcade of taste decisions - this one or that one, but I raather enjoy it and am in the process of setting up the next endeavor.

Paul Laverty is a wonderful writer and we've worked together for a quarter of a century.

I loved working with Janel Parrish and Anna Cathcart.

I really love working with Ramona from Nite Jewel. We've kind of grown up together.

Jack Nicholson and I have been friends ever since we met while doing 'The King of Marvin Gardens.'

I am very pleased to be working with director Woo.

We can be in the studio with the hottest producer, but we might not be able to create any magic! It's not about the hottest. It's about who we feel we have that connection with, and that's who we're going to be working with.