Ayelet Zurer Quotes

A good project but a poor director will always make a mediocre film, but an average script and good director can make a good film, as he will put in everything to make the film look good.

A script is only as good as the director who's making it.

There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.

The true excitement comes from the actors - that gives you the true drama - and whatever I can do with the camera, that's icing on the cake.

A filmmaker has to have faith in talent.

Haseeb Hassan is a fantastic director. He really understands characters and their relationships. He always gives sound advice and direction.

Films work due to scripts, characters, and what you see on screen.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

I look for the character to be something interesting, the script to have a good story and be original, and a director that I admire.

I still have my talent to produce and direct.

If I get lucky and I can choose, I would always choose a really good story and screenplay, even if I don't know the director. If there's a good screenplay, there's a chance that something good is going to happen.

Do you know what I'm working on now? My first feature as a director.

I want to direct, produce, and write, learning as I go.

I would love to direct some day. It's a good job for a control freak.

There are three things that are important for a film. Number one is story, number two is story, number three is story. Good actors can save a bad script and make it bearable, but good actors can't make a bad script good - they can just make it bearable.

In my own life, I've written scripts that I want to direct, so I would love to take my own creativity in a way where I could tell my own story. That does inspire me, the idea of becoming a director.

Usually, if you've got a great script, everything falls into place.

At the end of the day, it is about what you are doing in the film.

You never know where your next movie is going to come from. You just have to fall in love with something because it's going to be taking up every moment of spare time in your life for about two years. You're going to be dreaming about it and thinking about it and becoming obsessed with it.

'Basha' is the best screenplay in my career.

I would love to work with Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich, Omar Epps, Martin Scorsese, Josh Mond, Woody Allen, Paul Thomas Anderson, and David O. Russell, just to name a few. Those guys are absolutely brilliant at what they do.

To get the film in your head on the screen, first you have to take it out of your head and explain it to everyone who is working with you. This will take work and planning.

Writing a screenplay is an act of faith. First, that it's interesting enough that anyone would want to make it. Secondly, that anybody would want to watch it, let alone enjoy it.

I am not interested in doing a film on the basis of a good story. I want a proper screenplay.

Everything that is somehow related to direction and filmmaking fascinates me, like cinematography.