Linda Blair Quotes

I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.

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

While doing 'Ghazi,' Sankalp said he wanted me for his next film. He is a genius. There is always a mini-war going on in his brain, though he is a reticent person.

And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made.

I've certainly worked with really great directors who haven't acted.

The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.

All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They listen to ideas and make people feel like everyone is making the film.

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.

Tarsem Singh was such a fantastic director.

The most creative director I have worked with is Mani Ratnam.

I do have aspirations when it comes to directing, I suppose, but in a sort of a vague way. It would probably come about if I found a project that I really felt passionate about.

I'm an enormous fan of Ron Howard. I mean, he's the most extraordinary director.

I think Van Sant is the most important American director we have. He takes the most risks. He's just pure to me.

He was an amazing - John McTiernan really was an incredible director, probably the best I've worked with because he constantly busted me when he wasn't getting what he wanted.

When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that director's vision, and I'm totally open for that.

You know as a director what you want, but the film is smarter than you, the film says no, the film says there's something more here.

I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses.

There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.

I'm better suited to be a director, I think. I see myself as the general author. I hate the word 'auteur,' because it sounds so solitary when filmmaking is anything but solitary.

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

Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.

Every director is so different from every other one.

I think every director's different. Every director's got his own style. I mean, when I directed, I basically just screamed for eight hours a day, twelve hours a day.

I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers. I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't matter. And the rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic, and the best idea wins.

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.