Zoe Bell Quotes

I'm always amazed when any actor can decipher my direction.

If films could run because of performances, everybody's films would do well. It is the director who makes the film.

I always wanted to make movies.

My department is to get actors to do stuff.

I appreciate film actors who respect the film making process.

Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements.

Actors' performances do not stand alone in any film, live action or whatever.

I think acting is only one part of the piece of the movie. I'ts an important piece, but I'd like to be involved in all the other aspects of making movies.

I love to do very long and complicated scenes.

You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock, shot selection, and what takes they use.

When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about five minutes just steady screaming, and then they'd cut that in and add it.

When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

I love the art of acting, and I love film, because you always have anther chance if you want it. You know, if we - if this isn't going well, you can't say - well, you could say - let's stop. Let's start over again, Gene, because you were too nervous.

People say to me, 'Well, how do you direct Meryl Streep?' You're not wandering over to Meryl telling her how to act. She's an extraordinary talent and unbelievably hard working; she works harder than anyone I have ever worked with before.

It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it.

I think every actor would probably say that it's always a collaboration. And if you ask directors, they'll tell you that they expect the actors to bring something. They don't want to be thinking for everybody.

I wasn't very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you're sort of a puppet, and you're doing what you can. But I always, from the beginning, was kind of making up my own stuff from stand-up and sort of directing myself, so I wasn't very good in movies where I didn't have control.

When you act with phenomenal actors, it makes your job much easier because all you have to do is react.

Other than advances in technology and equipment, making a movie is the same as it was when I started, at least. I don't go back to the silent era.

As an actor, I love the feeling of being on set and the camaraderie of working on something together.

When you're making a movie, it's a very interiorised world.

Love scenes feel very mechanical. But our whole job is to make it look real.

Directing feels great; I'm really happy to be doing this.

I don't know how you can tell a good actor in the movies. I really don't. I think you simply just do the part and hope to God that the director has a good cutter and a good editor, and it'll all get cut and put together so that you look good in it.

I will not ever say that it's good to start with too little preparation, because that's patently not true. But I don't rehearse the way a lot of directors do, to stage a scene in terms of manners and attitudes and lock them in.