George Clooney Quotes

As a director myself, you really appreciate collaborating with people who are trying to help you find what you need and what you want.

It's the people that ultimately are less talented or have less confidence in what they're doing that then try to micro-manage, which lends itself to a less than ideal film.

And I just want to work with good directors and good people.

The most important thing for Quentin and the most important thing for me is to make the best film possible.

I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.

I find that all great directors, and I would include Ben Affleck and Clint Eastwood in that, they have great confidence. And with great confidence comes great freedom for the actor.

Because I've made a film with such an amazing director as Tarantino, I'm much more conscious of working with good directors from now on, so that's what's important to me. I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.

I like to just work with great directors.

As an actress you can participate, you can be a co-author, help the director. But I always wanted to be able to make the big decisions.

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

There are a lot of directors I'd still love to work with. Paul Thomas Anderson is someone I'd love to work with. I think Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu is very talented. Ang Lee is very talented. I mean, there are a lot of people. There are many great directors out there.

I've worked with Terrence Malick, Werner Herzog, Olive Stone and David Gordon Green, and Damien Chazelle on 'First Man.' When you have someone at the helm like that, they're gonna make something great.

I would love to work with Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich, Omar Epps, Martin Scorsese, Josh Mond, Woody Allen, Paul Thomas Anderson, and David O. Russell, just to name a few. Those guys are absolutely brilliant at what they do.

Working with a great director is wonderful for an actor because it means that you're not forced to take the advice of an idiot.

I don't have specific people. There are so many people that I admire and there's directors that I'm desperate to work with that haven't even made a movie yet, probably.

The most important part of filmmaking is the collaboration and the ensemble element of it. If you just all focus on the task and the work and try and make the best film that you can then people will come.

It's always a good collaboration between the actor and the writer and the director to try stuff out, during the process.

The best and most talented directors - and I think it goes for people too - are the most confident in giving room to their actors and trusting them.

What people think improvisation is and non-improvisation is, it's nothing to do with what you like or dislike. It's all about how it happens with certain directors and certain scenes. That's the way it works. It's not something, in general, that you can decide.

There are certain directors where you know you're going to be good or you're not going to be there. There are people where you kind of know that if you miss the mark then it'll probably not be in the movie and that's very reassuring.

When you do a movie, it's like going on a journey. It's really like the director is the captain of the ship, and that energy, everybody feels.

I just want to work with people, so I always try to find a way to collaborate in the best way for the music.

Usually I'm trying to work with people that I've worked with before, so we have a certain amount of know-how and what we're going to do together.

We'll just have to get along. That's what people do, you know? They just get along. And try to help each other.

There's no director or actor that I want to work with more than anyone else, other then maybe Johnny Depp, who I really would love to work with. I don't view any directors or actors above regular people, so I'm just happy to work with anyone, as long as they have talent.