Jason Statham Quotes

And I just want to work with good directors and good people.

I like to just work with great directors.

Acting's fine if the script's written by Paddy Chayefsky and Martin Scorsese directs it, but unless you have something like that, I don't really enjoy acting.

Films are not mathematics - that's the first thing you need to understand. At least, that's how I feel. They are not words on paper. Films are made with people, with teams and with individual bundles of creativity coming together to fulfill the vision of an individual who is the director of the film.

Working with Sam Mendes was a dream come true. He's unbelievable as a director.

I would love to just keep working with really great directors who really inspire me.

I am very much open to doing cinematography for any talented filmmaker, if the script is good.

In the film industry you never really know if all the various ingredients will come together - sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't. As an actor, you don't have much control over those things. It's a director's medium in that sense. All you can really do is minimise the risks of being involved in something that might not work and look for something that also suits you.

I have a long list of filmmakers I want to work with. But I have also always had this touch of reality, that if it doesn't happen, it's okay.

I want to do good stories, and I want to work with really interesting people. And if it's Noah Hawley forever, that's also amazing.

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.

I'm truly humbled to work with epic minds like Nitesh Tiwari and Kabir Khan.

After I made my first short film that wasn't terrible, people were interested in potentially developing a feature with me. Every time I read a script, it was a bizarre, too-dark, genre-less thing that no one wanted to make.

My brother advises me on what kind of films to do, which directors to work with and which scripts have potential.

No actor can give his best performance without the help of the director.

I want to do sensible films.

The concept of making a movie in which the director dictates is kind of exotic - and absolutely not truthful. Directing means allowing a great deal of collaboration and listening and having the ability to change your mind.

I am very happy to be working with so many talented directors and writers, who are penning scripts that are interesting for me.

Film is a team thing. There is no auteur.

I write all my scripts with Salman in mind. He understands me perfectly on the sets.

Working with Thiagarajan Kumararaja in 'Super Deluxe' was absolutely mind-blowing.

I don't have specific people. There are so many people that I admire and there's directors that I'm desperate to work with that haven't even made a movie yet, probably.

I'm a big fan of the Pixar movies, and Ed Catmull, who wrote a book about his experiences producing them, talks about how it takes three or four years to get it right.

I've been acting for many years now, and I find there's nothing I enjoy more than making films with my friends and people I like, who also are the funniest people around.

No film ever ends up exactly as you would like it to, but with minor exceptions, THX came out pretty much as I had visualized it, thanks to some excellent assistance -- and a whole lot of luck.