Director Importance Quotes

I think the director is becoming more important. To work under rushed conditions, you need to have an extremely professional director. If the director's good than the end result will be good.

There's a paraphrase about Orson Welles saying: "Great films are made by great directors and the rest are made by everyone else." I've been very lucky... before I start insulting the profession of directing, but I think a good director is everything and a bad director really is nothing at all.

On the whole, a director who make the set a comfortable place to work is really important, whether it's a comedy or drama.

I'm very instinctive when I choose my roles, and usually, the number one thing has to be the director.

To me, the director is the most important, rather than the story.

I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director.

The first thing is that we're being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these groups are trying to diminish the importance and strength of the director. They're trying to do it through both frontal and side attacks.

The truth of the matter is this - I never look for films specifically, because ultimately if the fundamentals of the character and the script and the director aren't there, it makes it a moot point.

My feeling about the movies is that most of them are terrible. If you don't have a decent script and a decent director, forget it.

There are directors that I want to work with and that I admire. You can love a script, but if it doesn't have a good director, it won't be that.

I've definitely become more aware and conscious of what directors I'm working with because it's so important. The director is really more than half the battle of the film. You really rely on that. That's become really, really important to me, for sure.

You have to have a great director to make a great movie.

The way I pick movies is, first, if the script is any good. Then, if the script is good, who else is in it, the director, the producer, all that. If you have all that, there's a chance the movie will be great. If the script isn't right, or the director or cast isn't right, you've got no shot in hell.

I want to take roles that challenge me and I want to like the script and obviously feel connected with the director because the director to me is so important.

I don't care about names attached to the script. That doesn't matter to me. All things being equal, I would like to work with a good script with a good director, and the part I play is of less important than those two factors.

The director's very important to me, particularly when the director has a recognizable style.