Monica Bellucci Quotes

There are definitely directors I want to work with like Dibakar Banerji, Zoya Akhtar, Vishal Bharadwaj, and so many more.

Stephen Daldry would be a director that I would love to work with as well as Peter Jackson, Tim Burton, and I'm very lucky to have worked with Isabel Coixet, who is also one of my favourite 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 think that any actor - any artist, period - would love to work with an artist like Lee Daniels.

I wanted to work with Mike Leigh. I had my list of British people I wanted to work with, and I wanted to work with David Lynch and Woody Allen.

The Coen Brothers, Peter Jackson, and Guillermo del Toro have really made something of themselves and impacted people. I'd love to work with them sometime, too.

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

I have worked with some very great directors.

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

Working with the Coens was a dream come true.

I did my first film with Francis Ford Copploa, which spoiled the hell out of me.

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

I've been fortunate to work with some amazing Asian filmmakers in independent film.

Our film society back home is so different from here. Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language. It's just figuring things out and understanding the codes and how the system of Hollywood compares to that of Norway. We don't even have agents. There's no studio system, no managers.

Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

When I came out to Hollywood, I discovered the perfect place for my creative madness - Cannon Pictures.

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

Everybody is always trying to make the best movie they can. It's a process.

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

I thought that making movies was drab. I'd lived through that. And I didn't want to use my parents, ever... They didn't want to push me into this business.

Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such freedom.

I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.

Hollywood is a town; it's not a medium. And cinema is a medium you can practice anywhere.

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