Zack Snyder Quotes

He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.

I don't enter into particulars with [Ennio Morricone]. I give him the feeling and the suggestions of the characters.

It was a pleasure to have somebody else be the boss. It wouldn't have been nearly as much fun any other way. He's been around and made a lot of movies and he's a great straightforward person to work for. And it was a pleasure to see other people to pick up characters that you've sketched out loosely on paper and make them into something fascinating.

Tom [Cruise] is a great producer himself. He's got great sense of story. It's always great to have the perspective of the person who's playing the character in your film.

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

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 think the biggest lesson that I take from 'Avatar' on any set that I go to is just work ethic. Working with Jim Cameron, you're used to working very, very long days and you're very meticulous about details. He's very, very picky about little details, little character-isms and things.

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.

My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.

Eventually, everyone said, Why don't you direct? It would save time. And that's how it started.

I think the toughest thing is to describe what a producer does because they basically do everything. They follow a project from the start through the rest of its life and, along the way, are a part of every single aspect of its growth. It's tremendously enriching, though, because you get to know and live with the movie in its entirety.

What is important to me is that people know I respect the business of making movies.

Jerry Weintraub, the producer, might be a pain in the ass, but he really knows how to treat his actors.

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

Every time you say yes to a film there's a certain percentage of your yes that has to do with the director, a certain percentage to do with the story, a certain percentage with the character, the location, etc.

On a very small scale, I kind of understand why the directors that I work with do certain things. I don't consider myself an incredible director. I'm not ready to do movies by any means. But, I feel like I can be a better actress now that I've been on the other side and kind of understand the process and more of the technical aspects of it.

I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really.

Working with and collaborating with and for Peter Jackson was an incredible experience because he is such a phenomenal filmmaker.

I had a really good time working with Jim Cameron. A lot of people didn't, but I did as I got on with him really quite well. For a director who spends most of his time looking down a lens or in the digitisation studio or working out some graphics, he is actually very good with actors.

Director of any film is very important, and an actor has to leave himself in his hands to mould.

Directors tend to be more underrated than overrated because it's a quiet job and people don't really understand it.

I'd like to work with David Lynch again.

I keep saying this, but the most important part of directing is casting, and the rest of it is pretty easy.

I was saying to myself that I would love to try it once, just one time, to know what it's like to make a movie in Hollywood. I was so curious because most of my favorite directors were there. There's a history; there's a way of working.

I have got good films, and I am thankful to Aditya Chopra. He put a lot of faith in me.