Kurt Russell Quotes

As an actor you have to bring to the table your creative input. But when a director like Ridley Scott says I want you to do this this way, you know when he gets to the editing room he has a reason for it. It's like watching a masterpiece.

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

I believe that the director is really the soul. It is a collaborative effort, but the director is the one who needs to have that vision. It could be a great script, but it starts from there. You need to have good material, at least, but if you don't have someone with vision, it's just words.

There is a director for a reason, because a director knows what's best for the movie. You just give your director as much as you can to work with, and hopefully, the decisions they make are going to be great.

As an actor, you have to believe in the point of view of a director; as a director, you have to be able to express what your point of view is and invite everybody to join you on that journey. So it's always about opening up.

I think that I'm a pretty great producer, but the vision behind Batman is Chris Nolan. I'm there to do my best to help execute that vision, and I think I do a really good job, but the vision is Chris Nolan.

In the best of all possible worlds, directors would obsess about the quality of their storytelling, and not the details of their technical methods.

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.

When you are acting, you are just one piece of the puzzle. You don't see how everything fits together. It feels like you have less authorship over the entire product. In directing, you take the entire picture into account, so you're challenged in a different way.

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

The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.

I find directing more satisfying.

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 feel I should defer to the writers and the directors because they're the ones who have the complete vision. They see things through from the beginning to the end. I'm responsible for one small part, so my scope is much more limited than theirs.

I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker.

The great directors managed to dissolve and disappear into the work. They make other people look good.

When I sign on for a project, I'm there to give the director all the material he or she might need to tell their story, and that's the number one priority.

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

Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision.

When the director has a vision for a piece that I've never heard before, and they can back that up with visuals, and they talk a good game, I get really interested in the world that they're trying to create.

There is no sense in doing a wonderful script with somebody who can't direct because that is a disaster.

Directing is a unique endeavor where you are in charge of so many people. As a writer, it is sort of the opposite.

Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.

Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you've gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.

You need these experiences. Just know that sometimes, the director has a specific look in mind.