Benedict Wong Quotes

The idea of working with Steven Spielberg was very attractive. He's such a master. He knows the language of the camera and of filmmaking, which gives him a great freedom.

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

I would love to see Steven Spielberg working. I just think he's the greatest living director.

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

I admire Ridley Scott, and I'm thrilled to be making a movie for him.

Shaji Kailas is an amazing director.

Michael Mann's always been one of my heroes.

J.J. Abrams is an all-time hero of mine, really lovely to be working with him.

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

The first person to make me realize there was someone behind the film was Steven Spielberg.

I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?

I really love Hitchcock; I think he was a complete genius, to me one of the best directors. Such a sense of how to put things together.

Rob Hardy is such a great director.

Steven Spielberg was my idol growing up. I knew that all of his movies have a very specific message and point of view, and the always are really epic.

I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.

I don't think it would be possible for me to respect people like Ridley Scott or James Cameron more than I already do. They're gods of filmmaking.

And I had never thought I'd get to work with a Sanjay Leela Bhansali. He is the master of period films. He makes everything with so much love.

Steven Spielberg name is synonymous with Hollywood. You sometimes meet people who revel in their own mythology, and he doesn't feel like that, at all. He's very approachable, accessible and sweet. Even if he wasn't, I'd have to say that because the man runs everything.

It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

I now truly believe it is impossible for me to make a bad movie.

I have worked with some great directors.

I would love to direct a feature and have Robert Connolly produce it. That would be really fab.

The most common thing over the years is, 'What's it like to work with David Lynch?' That's absolutely the fascination, whether it's people that are in the industry or it's just diehard fans. Because he's our modern-day master. We're lucky enough to be alive at the time that an absolute master and genius is working.

Steven Spielberg was a huge part of my childhood, like everyone's, I guess.

David Fincher is a genius.