Louis Leterrier Quotes

I did a lot of theater, so especially as an on-camera camera actor, there are so many things that aren't in your toolbox. They're somebody else's job. You think about editors and rhythm. Volume isn't even in your control.

I've worked with actors before where I was like, this is not working, and then I've seen their work on the screen and I've been like, Wow, that was a really great performance. Because there are a lot of elements with film. It's not like stage. It's not a kind of performance art anymore; it's a highly tuned kind of collaboration - a symphony.

If you're sitting in the audience, you probably can't see the preparation and work that goes into creating a great scene or a great part, but I can assure you that a good film depends on lot of different things falling perfectly into place.

I would love to work with the great movie actors of our time.

Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.

If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.

I love actors. That's my bread and butter, and I got to work with some amazing ones on '12 Years'.

I love working with great actors.

In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery.

Then there are actors my age like Ethan Hawke, he's in 'Moby Dick,' I love his work. I've been lucky. Alfred Molina, he has real class.

When you're in front of the camera, for a small budget or a big budget movie, there's no difference.

I would love to work with Jack Nicholson, Saoirse Ronan, Michael Shannon and James Franco in the future. I think those actors are amazing, and they are my favourite actors by far.

'Lovelace' was really great. I got to work with the wonderful Amanda Seyfried, Hank Azaria and Peter Sarsgaard, so it can't get no better than that, right? I had a blast, and the film is a very, very well put together movie - from the director to the writing the cast.

I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself.

I remember working on movies like Gettysburg and feeling that Jeff Daniels was kind of a mentor.

I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.

A great screenplay makes everybody step up to the bar and deliver.

I really think the key to a film is the chemistry of people.

We had a great time making 'Chennai Express.' It was a learning experience working with Shah Rukh... it was a positive experience.

I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.

I really want to work in a movie with Quentin Tarantino. I think he makes fantastic movies. I love people that create a different reality for the actors to live in.

There are no great scripts - just great films.

I love being verbal in films.

Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part.

I love the art of filmmaking very much in all aspects.