Isabella Rossellini Quotes

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.

Peter Chelsom and Edgar Wright are totally different directors and worlds apart, but both really accomplished directors who are certain of how they want to make a film.

The reason I took on directing a film myself was because, no matter how skilful a director was or how much I liked the film, there'd always be beats where I'd go, 'Oh... well, that's skilful, in a way, but it doesn't get the flavour I'd intended in the script.'

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 do believe that there are auteurs, in the sense that there are filmmakers with very strong voices and their voices are communicated on to the screen without a lot of compromise.

You become the movie you are making.

I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker.

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

I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.

I want my movies to be audience experiences. As much as I like Michael Haneke, I'm not going to make a Haneke film. That's just not in my DNA.

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

When a director shifts gears as often as does Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, the man behind the emotionally rich debut film 'Amores Perros,' you may wonder if he knows what he wants.

I have a particular taste, I do films according to it and promote it accordingly.

Of course I know what works for me and what kind of tone I want my films to have.

I think the success of any movie is dependent upon it being a singular vision.

You can't make a film for your personal satisfaction. That is why I detest the cinema of people like Mani Kaul.

I knew Spike Jonze would do something really interesting with it.

Frank Miller is more of a visionary than any director I've ever worked with, and he achieves that vision better than anyone I've ever worked with.

I've never been a fan of directors who clutter a piece with all sorts of crazy preconceptions or weird ideas.

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.

Tim also has enough confidence so that it always looks like a Tim Burton film, but it really is collaborative. You're allowed to do it your way but of course he's always going to choose his way.

The great directors managed to dissolve and disappear into the work. They make other people look good.

I'm an artist, and I'm part of every decision in a movie.

I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.

I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films.