Cameron Diaz Quotes

In some way, the relationship between a director and an actor is personal.

If you're working with a director you trust, you can turn that part of you off that wants to direct other actors in a certain way.

When I give over to somebody's vision rather than have an idea of what I need to do, it takes me to places I wouldn't have got to by myself. I'm always attracted to a strong director.

I've been lucky enough to work with some great directors, and I don't want to throw that away by doing one big horrible big budget film.

I want to work with a director who becomes my brother, my father, for two months. You give yourself over to that person.

No, United Artists was a very extraordinary organization, because once they had agreed on the director, they believed in letting him have his way. They trusted me, and that doesn't often happen.

I know that it's axiomatic in the film industry that you're not supposed to let the novelist develop their own story. Well, first of all, that's kind of up to the novelist - because they don't have to sell it. But also, I don't believe it. It's about trust.

I have got good films, and I am thankful to Aditya Chopra. He put a lot of faith in me.

More than anything else, I love to act and leave the rest to my director.

When it's a good director, you can feel when they trust you when they cast you.

I like working with a first time director. I'm more likely to work with a first time director than I am a second time director.

David Ayer was put on my map, at that point, and I always kept note and clocked his career. When he started directing, I saw Harsh Times, I saw Street Kings and I saw End of Watch. I gave my agents a list of directors that I wanted to work with, and at the top of that list was David. I wanted to have that experience.

There are some actresses who cannot function on the set without having a close relationship with their directors. Their way of communicating with the director is through intimacy. It doesn't necessarily have to do with any physical act; it has more to do with achieving a closeness that they find very valuable.

I like to be cast well and then I like to be left alone. And good directors, that's generally what they do when they hire you because you have something that's useful to the part, and then they leave you alone. The times that I've run into trouble is when, very rare actually, but you get hired and then there's some sort of makeover involved.

When you're really working well with a director then you can be as outrageous as you like and so can he. And there's no worry about it.

I think what's great about that relationship between an actor and a Director is you have to really blow away all your thing, the safety things that you put up.

When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me.

Some directors involve waiting, and if you want to work with that particular director you're going to have to hang around.

It's true that I don't think I'd be a good director. If I were a director, I'd try to hire the best people I could and then leave them alone. I don't know much about cameras or lighting, so I'd make sure that I had a really good cameraman who understood lenses and lighting, and I say to him, "This is the scene we have to shoot and this is what I think it should be, you go do it." Same with actors. But really, very good directors who know everything do basically the same thing. They hire you and then they leave you alone.

This is the fourth movie that I've done with this set of director-writers and I've learned to trust them at this point, because actually I started on Lego before they did.

You know, making an animated movie is such a lonesome thing. You mostly don't see your fellow actors or anything. You go into your booth, you record all your dialogue. It's very much an issue of trust. You leave it all up to the director.

When you connect with people, they want to help you.

A strong film director does leave you to your devices. A strong director allows you to be free and you trust that he's there and he will tell you if you've gone too far. A strong director allows you to be much more experimental and take greater chances than a director who isn't secure within himself.

It's really interesting to observe each filmmaker's approach to filmmaking and I feel very fortunate to have worked with a lot of really interesting filmmakers and they all approach their job in unique ways.

John Waters is one of the sweetest, dearest, most adorable men I've ever worked with.