Richard Gere Quotes

Your director is your everything and you devote yourself to them and you want to help create their vision.

As a director myself, you want to have colleagues and collaborators that respect your authority as the director. I'm very comfortable with that, and I've done a lot of work in second unit.

I really love the experience of moving things around, in terms of being a director.

You can only have one voice on set, and that has to be the director.

I'd never directed before and this movie's too important to me to put in the hands of some guy who has never directed. Even if it's me.

An actor is only a part of the film, not the whole, and very often, he is moulded by the director. That is why a good director can make so much difference to a film.

I've never directed anything before 'Mad Men,' so I don't feel I have any advice for the other directors.

The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of view, they set the rhythm and they make the final decisions.

A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.

I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship.

Films are a director's medium. We're all stemming from the director.

I would say that the energy on set is always the energy of the director because he's the boss.

I don't think film is the writer's medium, and so I was interested to see what a director would do with it.

One of the problems of a director on the set is that we become overwhelmed by all the factors and threads of production, that sometimes we can't focus on our main job, which is steering the performances to create the whole film.

I'm not really a guy who wants to be a director, anyway.

Every director works differently but one thing's important: they must have a vision. If they don't have a vision I don't care how they work.

I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.

Throughout whatever I do, I always just say "Director" first. I am directing the storylines and I'm creating what it is.

I think when you pay attention to the shots, you're aware of the fact that there's a director. Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel.

Most directors prefer to direct everything themselves. I thought I could on Lord Of The Rings, but very quickly found out that the sheer scale prevented it.

He [Oliver Stone] is great. I really like working with directors who know what they want and aren't afraid to tell you, "Do it like this. Don't do it like that."

A director is what a director wants to be. If you want to force something, you can fight to the death and maybe get fired, but it's your job to help push things along.

Directing is exhausting, but not for the actual directing part, when you say "Action!" and give creative notes. As a director, the exhausting part is that you are a professional answer-machine.

Normally, I'm a very controlling director. Directors are controlling. It's part of the job, but there's various degrees of it and the constructs I normally work on are very controlling constructs.

To me, one of the main things that a director does is create the tone of his movie.