Felicity Jones Quotes

With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.

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

My approach to working in movies is to empower the director to have power over me and to really support his vision because he's the guy, at the end of the day, who's going to put it all together.

Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.

I have always believed that when a film is being made, it has to be the director's vision.

It was a great experience to work with director A. L. Vijay.

To be honest, the real reason I did 'Drive' was because of Nicolas Winding Refn, the director.

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

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.

I have worked with some great directors.

I am lucky that I have worked with some wonderful directors so far - Madhur Bhandarkar and Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, among others.

I want to work with Darren Aronofsky, Damien Chazelle, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and, of course, Majid Majidi.

Film is a collaborative process, absolutely, but I am a control freak.

Every actor wants to direct.

Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him.

It's so hard to find a director who, when you look at their body of work, you like everything.

I don't even know if I can call myself a director.

The Weinsteins believe in test screenings. I don't. I don't think good films are made that way. Call me crazy, but I'd like to think you need a singular vision to make good art.

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.

I'm better suited to be a director, I think. I see myself as the general author. I hate the word 'auteur,' because it sounds so solitary when filmmaking is anything but solitary.

Tim Story is a fantastic director, and I'm so excited to get to work with him.

Most of the great directors I've worked with - De Palma, Spike Lee - like rehearsals.

In film, you have to let go sometimes.

What you learn when you direct a film, even more so than as a producer, it's a marriage. It's like a relationship with that film so you've got to make sure that it's really something that you want to live with for three years or however long it is. So I haven't found the right thing to marry yet.

I would love to work with Cameron Crowe; he's definitely one of my favorite directors.