Rebecca Hall Quotes

I feel like directing is an innate talent.

I have a great little camera, and I had a theory that if the story is interesting, it doesn't matter what medium you shoot it on. You just have to make a good film.

A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director that I've admired knew exactly what he wanted to do. They didn't sit there and think about it.

As a director and filmmaker, I love creating my own opportunity, and getting to share the love, in that way, by creating other opportunities for people that I admire, so that they can do something in a way they haven't done it before.

The thing is, as a film director, you're essentially alone: You have to tell a story primarily through pictures, and only you know the film you see in your head.

Directing is a tremendous art.

The director is the only person on the set who has seen the film. Your job as a director is to show up every day and know where everything will fit into the film.

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

It's only the filmmaker. The script is really, really second. And there's a huge gap between filmmaker and script for me. I almost don't care about the story that they're telling; I really only care about who wants to tell it.

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

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.

When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.

I think actors do make really, really wonderful directors.

Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.

I believe that the director is really the soul. It is a collaborative effort, but the director is the one who needs to have that vision. It could be a great script, but it starts from there. You need to have good material, at least, but if you don't have someone with vision, it's just words.

Directing is its own monster with its own set of muscles and exercises.

There is a director for a reason, because a director knows what's best for the movie. You just give your director as much as you can to work with, and hopefully, the decisions they make are going to be great.

Making an authentic film about anything is difficult.

Good directing is good writing and good casting.

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

Priyadarshan has directed over 84 films and more than 150 ad films. With every film, he is growing. He knows his job well; he is thorough. His way of making a film and song or choreographing a scene is entirely different from other directors. He knows how to use an actor's talent and how to handle an actor.

As a director, you have to go in with a really, really, really clear picture of what you want.

Krishna Vamsi is a very good director.

Directing films is easier said than done. The job needs a lot of sensibility to put many things in place.

The filmmakers have a story they want to tell, and they go get the material they need for it. The film either exceeds or fails to meet up to their expectations or it's different.