Penelope Cruz Quotes

I had attraction to work with Ang Lee. I wanted to work with him.

Use people whom you're excited by and who share your excitement... The ideal collaboration is one in which the actor and director are saying to each other, 'I can't believe how lucky we are to be making a movie together.'

David Fincher is a longtime friend. As a director, my wife had worked with him as a makeup artist when he would do Madonna videos years before, and his child and my oldest child were in preschool together, so we're kind of dad-friends through that, too.

If the chemistry between me and the artist is good, then that's half the battle.

Larry Kasdan has made some of my favorite movies of all time so just to be working with him was a pleasure. Now that I have, I not only respect his work but I just love and respect him as a person.

I love Malcolm Lee and jumped on the opportunity to work with him as a director.

In this artistic world, you might as well find a way to work with somebody that you have admiration for.

I loved Jack because of every little thing about him. The way he laughed, the way he made me smile, the way he'd stay up until nine in the morning watching zombie movies he'd seen a hundred times, and the way he could never hold a grudge. I loved him because I loved him, not because it was fate or destiny or in my blood, We had chosen each other, and that felt more powerful and more magical.

But I would love to work with David Lynch, if I could. He's my hero.

Dusty Rhodes really liked me, I bonded with him.

My greatest chemistry is with the fans. There is a deep, deep connection.

I'm so honored that there are people, peers, that I'm inspired by and looked up to for years and actually want me to do my thing with them. It's quite the honor, and it's been wonderful to see everybody's fan base kind of melting together.

I've worked with Farah Khan who is a competent woman director, and Farah and I had a great professional equation and we are still best of friends.

There's not a lot of things that I'm confident about in life, but the way I feel about food is my one thing that I really feel such a strong connection to.

I am very pleased to be working with director Woo.

I've produced two docs for Cameron Crowe, and I've always loved him as a filmmaker.

I love Krishna Vamsi very much as a director, and after working with him, I also started to like him personally.

We can be in the studio with the hottest producer, but we might not be able to create any magic! It's not about the hottest. It's about who we feel we have that connection with, and that's who we're going to be working with.

I've been told that my voice is very distinctive. I've been told people feel extremely connected to it.

Whenever anybody asked me, 'Who is your number one director to work with?' I would always say Tim Burton.

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

I've dated a few musicians in my life, and it's kind of always been that way for me. You unite through creativity and share that process and more together.

One of the things I'm most proud of in Atlanta is that I had a great relationship with our fans and I think they knew what I was all about. They respected me, showed me nothing but love.

Firoz Nadiadwala is a close friend; he was the first person who asked me to direct a film for him. I would like to have him as my producer for my directorial debut.

When I do a film, I try and see how in tune I am with the director.