Michael Rooker Quotes

I will admit, it's so intoxicating working with Steve Carrell. Creatively and professionally.

These last few years, working with Tim Burton, it's been the best time I've ever had.

I love Malcolm Lee and jumped on the opportunity to work with him as a director.

I'd work with Danny Boyle every day of the week. No matter what he was doing I would do that.

To work with the same director is a great feeling.

Having a connection and chemistry with a director is really key.

In 'Stree', I had a great time working with the whole team and Dinu, being the producer and one of the most important people. And now we are doing another film together, and I'm sure there will be a couple of more films in the future.

As a director/writer/producer, all you ever want is to work with actors who make you look better, who make the work you do seem as good as it can be and even better than it is.

I like working with writer-directors because you can solve problems right there.

Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.

And 'Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll' was a very transitional film for me in that I was one of the producers and you know, came up with the idea with the writer and the producer, as well. But, it was a very collaborative event. You know, I really love working in that way.

I worked with Cameron Crowe, and I'd love to work with him again.

It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.

You have to really work with someone who you think is going to be a collaborator, who you think understands what you want to do with this movie and how you want to do it.

If a filmmaker and I don't get along, it's four weeks of your life, so, whatever. With TV, it's six years.

I worked with the Coen brothers, which had been a dream of mine.

I find I like to work with a lot of the same actors, because I find that there's sort of shorthand there, and there is this unspoken trust, both ways. They trust me and I trust them. And I know what I'm going to get from them, to an extent. It's just fun, kind of creating this little family.

Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me.

I have hardly ever worked with the same director twice. But when you have worked with a director before, you understand his behavior.

I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.

Tim and Fritz Lang I loved working with. Not Hitchcock so much. There was no communication.

I have worked with some very great directors.

I'm used to working with the director and producer, and that's my relationship. It's very simple.

A lot of these roles that I feel like I've had some sort of impact, or that have had an effect on me, have always been with directors who have the time to somehow get to know me. Any good director's going to be curious about who it is that's coming aboard.

I have no directing ambition whatsoever. And as long as I meet filmmakers like Tom Hooper, Stephen Frears, and others who allow that collaboration, I can't see why I would ever want to direct.