Maika Monroe Quotes

I would love to work with Christopher Nolan, 100 percent.

For me the most moving moment came when I first started working on 2001. I was already in awe of him, and he had very much already become Stanley Kubrick by the time the film started.

Tim Story is a fantastic director, and I'm so excited to get to work with him.

I always loved doing a movie with Daldry. That's always a huge factor for me.

Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century.

I think that any actor - any artist, period - would love to work with an artist like Lee Daniels.

Obviously I would love to work with all these great directors like the Coen Brothers, Tarantino. Robert Rodriguez is a dream director of mine.

Well, you don't make any demands to Steven Spielberg.

To be honest, the real reason I did 'Drive' was because of Nicolas Winding Refn, the director.

Quentin Tarantino is a genius. I want to do every single film with him.

I would love to work with Cameron Crowe; he's definitely one of my favorite directors.

I would love to work with Quentin Tarantino - he's my number one. My ultimate. I would love to work with Paul Thomas Anderson, Alexander Payne - Pedro Almodovar wouldn't be too shabby. There are so many good directors, but those are some of my favorites.

I would love to work with Shane Meadows - great director.

My approach to working in movies is to empower the director to have power over me and to really support his vision because he's the guy, at the end of the day, who's going to put it all together.

But I would love to work with David Lynch, if I could. He's my hero.

I want to work with Darren Aronofsky, Damien Chazelle, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and, of course, Majid Majidi.

Kubrick showed us something special. Every film was a challenge, and a direct assault on cinema's conventions.

I know I don't go looking for directors. I always wonder why they chose me.

Unfortunately for critics and audiences alike, I have made several films, and some films with really terrific actors. And I say this at my own peril, but Marion Cotillard is the best actor I've ever worked with.

The only person who can, with impunity, make the movie he wants to make, has got to be Steven Spielberg.

The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.

I love David Fincher and I think he's a genius.

Stanley Kubrick, I had been told, hates interviews. It's hard to know what to expect of the man if you've only seen his films. One senses in those films painstaking craftsmanship, a furious intellect at work, a single-minded devotion.

I remember those days with Bergman with great nostalgia. We were aware that the films were going to be quite important, and the work felt meaningful.

When you produce and direct, your movies are different to you. They're not just something you act in.