Phil Foglio Quotes

James Wan is somebody who doesn't have any problem coming in and directing somebody else's script, he'll be the director for hire and he has his own style and he loves that.

I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

It's only the filmmaker. The script is really, really second. And there's a huge gap between filmmaker and script for me. I almost don't care about the story that they're telling; I really only care about who wants to tell it.

The director's very important to me, particularly when the director has a recognizable style.

I have always believed Chandra Barot is a very talented director.

When a director shifts gears as often as does Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, the man behind the emotionally rich debut film 'Amores Perros,' you may wonder if he knows what he wants.

I feel Prawaal Raman is an amazing director with great films in his pocket like 'Gayab.'

Whenever anybody asked me, 'Who is your number one director to work with?' I would always say Tim Burton.

'Zakhm' was my last film as a director.

I do believe that there are auteurs, in the sense that there are filmmakers with very strong voices and their voices are communicated on to the screen without a lot of compromise.

Frank Miller is more of a visionary than any director I've ever worked with, and he achieves that vision better than anyone I've ever worked with.

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

Tim also has enough confidence so that it always looks like a Tim Burton film, but it really is collaborative. You're allowed to do it your way but of course he's always going to choose his way.

I'm in awe of directors like the Coen brothers who can shoot their script and edit it, and that's the movie. They're not discovering the movie in postproduction. They're editing the script they shot.

To me, the director is the most important, rather than the story.

I don't really believe in the auteur theory.

The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.

They know you're not Alfred Hitchcock, but you need to be enough Alfred Hitchcock for them not to be bothered by it. That's a reassuring thing.

All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They listen to ideas and make people feel like everyone is making the film.

Jonathan Demme is a very sharp editor of his movies.

Although filmmaking is collaborative and involves trust, ultimately it is the director who holds the whole picture together in their head.

Michael Winterbottom is one of the great directors of this century.

You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.

I don't quite know what an auteur is.