Max Greenfield Quotes

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.

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.

In the case of 'Blood Stone,' the producers, EON, Michael Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, David Wilson and Gregg Wilson, had an idea for a story and had a lot of it done. And I came in, worked with them, fleshed it out.

When I sign on for a project, I'm there to give the director all the material he or she might need to tell their story, and that's the number one priority.

A film is a director's vision... there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have.

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.

I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.

I enjoy co-directing or even being there just for support because you get to see your script come to aural life in front of you.

I love the process of working with a filmmaker and the writers and the actors.

Every film is a human encounter. It's people trying to collaborate and create something together.

The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something. What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.

A great movie evolves when everybody has the same vision in their heads.

I definitely managed to do different kinds of things. My focus is usually who the director is, because at the end of the day the director is the storyteller, what the movie is all about. I don't want to participate in something that I don't think is constructive storytelling.

I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

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 found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation.

It slightly depends on your perspective, sort of how you look at these things, but when I sit down to write a script, I'm not planning to write a script; I'm planning to make a film, and so I only see the script as being just a step there.

When the director has a vision for a piece that I've never heard before, and they can back that up with visuals, and they talk a good game, I get really interested in the world that they're trying to create.

To me, the director is the most important, rather than the story.

When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.

Movies are very hard to make, to get it all to come together. So many people have their say in what the end product of films are.

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.

The first work of the director is to set a mood so that the actor's work can take place, so that the actor can create. And in order to do that, you have to communicate, communicate with the actors. And direction is about communication on all levels.

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