Eric Bana Quotes

I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.

I like working with a first time director. I'm more likely to work with a first time director than I am a second time director.

I've had a couple opportunities where I've been on the other side of the audition process as a director.

I believe my signal of maturity as a filmmaker iswhen I'll actually acknowledge the fact that the first take is usuallythe best.

When I went to Sundance for 'Afternoon Delight,' I came back feeling like I wanted to take my experience that I learned from directing and bring that into a series.

I continually marvel at people who can make films that reach five hundred million people. How do you do that? Everybody's different - I don't know how that works.

Every director works differently.

I think I have more of a director's brain than an actor's brain, in a way.

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

The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!

I never wanted to be a director. I came into this industry by the little door, so I never learned anything; I never went to school. Actors will tell you I'm very precise. I just have the intuition of doing things.

I'd like to work with any actress from whom I can learn-one who has had many experiences with many directors and is willing to share some of her knowledge with me.

I have immense admiration for the writer/directors and director/actors who just seamlessly do both jobs at the same time.

John Boorman was the best director I've ever had.

New directors are safe. They tell you the full story and since they are new, they try to put their heart and soul into the project.

Good films that get made are so few and far between. I want to write and direct more, but only so I can keep a fresh perspective.

People don't know what filmmaking is even after they have made ten films.

I've learned more about directing from five years of television than I could have in ten years of film.

As actors, we have the opportunity to work with many directors. Directors only work with themselves and other actors. They never know what it is like to work with another director. So that relationship that one has with a director is entirely always the king.

I don't think you can be a director without a kind of sense of competitiveness.

Stepping out of the director's chair completely and into a scene as an actor was weird. It was more excitement about directing than anything, but I was on a high from being a director and enjoying that process so much that going back to being an actor was almost secondary because I really was loving directing.

I feel like a lot of the young actors that are just coming up are really good. I think directors are directing better.

It's been 50 years since I was on the roof of my parents' house shooting Hag in a Black Leather Jacket when I didn't even know there was such a thing as editing. I thought you just shot the film and showed it. That's exactly what I did. I'm not that different 50 years later.

It's not often I get to do a film that turns out good. Plus, there just aren't that many great directors out there. There are a thousand different decisions that need to be made with each script and it's the good directors that can make those decisions. It's a long and complicated process in regards to what looks good on paper. Working on a bad film can be fun too. It can be a good exercise that gets you writing.

I've done lots of films with first directors, so it's not unusual for me.