Baran bo Odar Quotes

I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.

Part of an actor's job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how he tries to work.

I think, at the end of the day, filmmaking is a team, but eventually there's got to be a captain.

I haven't worked with a director who is a crazy person at all.

The hardest thing about a musical is making sure everybody is working on the same damn show. That is the monster.

No actor can give his best performance without the help of the director.

Your crew becomes your family and you trust the director and the other actors on the set, and it's a very safe place.

Mel is a great director because he's not just a director, he's an actor, so he knows how to direct actors. I loved working with him. He's great as a director. He's so intelligent. He's generous. I really loved him.

I'm learning more and more to share creativity with the crew and actors. A film crew is more powerful if you listen to them, but it does make my job more tough because I have to listen.

Every film you work on is different, and that's part of what it's like for anybody who works on a film, is to learn how to work with others. Learn from top to bottom. Actors have to learn how to work with the director and the director has to learn how to work with actors, and that's not just those two departments.

I'm an actress who likes a strong, communicative director.

I'd worked with directors who wouldn't collaborate. Then I've also worked with directors who didn't really know what they wanted. I knew I didn't want to be either one of those guys - or girls.

Usually in features, I'm the lead. I consider the director the captain, but I consider myself the first mate, and it's up to me to keep in contact with the heart of the crew.

On my set, people have to respect the actor's process. I totally respect what actors do. I give them whatever time they need, and I never scream out directions from the camera. I take the time to walk up to them and talk to them personally.

Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

What I say about actors is you always want to find an actor you can play ball with. You throw the ball at them and you want them to throw it back. Your ball playing is a lot better when you play with good ballplayers, like any sport. Every actor I know feels the same way.

Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun.

When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.

When a relationship with a director is really working, you have the same idea at the same time. You go, 'Look, this isn't working,' and they'll go, 'I know it's not working. What are we gonna do?' And you go and try something else.

I see my actors as my collaborators.

I like working with Kenneth Branagh.

As a director, it just makes my life fantastic to work with people like Elizabeth Hawthorne.

The only thing that I can contribute as director is to work with the performers in a way that brings out the drama.

As a director, one of my biggest jobs is trying to see what actually works for the actor.

And being an actor already means that working with cast as a director, I have a clear understanding of their position and that collaboration is great and useful.