Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes

Directors tend to be more underrated than overrated because it's a quiet job and people don't really understand it.

I had a whole new respect for directors.

The best thing about being a film producer is I get to spend 99 per cent of my time behind the scenes.

Directors don't get to see other directors at work - they're the only one on the set. I've met directors who've asked me what another filmmaker is like. So, there's probably nobody better placed to make all the comparisons and to pick up stuff than an actor.

There's obviously something that feels very good about being with a new filmmaker who's very excited, but I also think there's something very comforting in a director who's been around a few times. Both have their pros and cons.

In chatting to directors over the years, including James Wan, they always tell you the war stories. No one ever says, 'Oh, I had a great time on that film.' It's always this went wrong, that went wrong.

I experienced a lot of things while I was working with Dibakar Banerjee.

I would love to be a fly on the wall watching other directors and actors to see what their process is like.

I'm such a fan of actors, and also enjoy watching them work, so that I can help their acting in any way I can.

As actors, we have the opportunity to work with many directors. Directors only work with themselves and other actors. They never know what it is like to work with another director. So that relationship that one has with a director is entirely always the king.

Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.

I'm not really a guy who wants to be a director, anyway.

I've done a lot of movies, and you really never know. You do a movie and you think that it's great, and then you see it and it doesn't work.

Every director works differently but one thing's important: they must have a vision. If they don't have a vision I don't care how they work.

I love when a director says, "I don't know."

Actors become actors because they loved entertaining their family by putting on the lampshade and dancing around as a kid, ... That's not my personality. For me, the fun part of making movies is seeing it as a director sees it. I like the architecture of movies. I like knowing what's coming and working to set that up.

I'm a natural behind the camera... My attentions are more toward behind the scenes, more toward creating, producing, and directing what's going on here... When I finally do pop in front of the lens, I'm genuinely glad and relieved to be there.

Stepping out of the director's chair completely and into a scene as an actor was weird. It was more excitement about directing than anything, but I was on a high from being a director and enjoying that process so much that going back to being an actor was almost secondary because I really was loving directing.

I do feel for me that cinema has somehow ceased to be a spectator sport. I get tremendous excitement out of making it rather than watching it.

I don't watch a lot of films. I'm usually involved in making them.

I've always appreciated directors but I have a newfound appreciation for them and producers and everyone who does what they do that actors don't see. When you have one job, that's all you care about, that's all you're supposed to focus on. But focusing on so many different things, I was introduced to how hard everyone else works too.

The directors were often really nice and I was well behaved, so I would just sit there in rehearsal. That allowed me to see the process - not just the result, the red carpet, all of the wonderful, fun things that happen afterwards - the nuts and bolts, the nitty-gritty, "Let's try to build this character from the page," tech rehearsals.

I'm a huge fan of process. Even if it's a movie that I don't think is quite as successful, I'm really intrigued by the process of it.

I think I have much more appreciation for directing and movies overall versus a performance or an actor. Their body of work is more interesting.

I've never been the kind of actress that just likes to show up and say my lines. I'm fascinated by what the crew does.