Director's Work Quotes

When I'm in a movie, what I always do, instead of sitting in a trailer or watching a DVD, is I go on the set and watch the director work and the actors work, and sometimes I'll hang out with B camera and watch what they're up to and ask questions because there's so much to learn about the medium.

'Analyze This' is a good movie because Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal are really good. But without the material to put on the play, of course, they couldn't be good. For me, it starts with the writing. I always think that the writer is doing the vast majority of the director's work, in a sense.

With film, you stop and go. You have to do 20 takes or whatever.

[Martin Scorsese ] basically works just like any other director. You work the scene, you try to find what's best in it and make it work. That's what it was like.

I've worked with some of the great cinematographers. So I'm always watching what they do and I'm watching how the director composes his shots, just because I find it interesting as an actor; you're trying to help them out as well.

When it comes to 'Ala Modalaindi,' I was impressed with the storyline narrated by Nandini, the director of the film.

I'm always very interested in going and discovering a young director's films.

I knew Secrets and Lies was a great film, but I didn't expect it to get the attention it did because none of his other films had and I thought they were just as good.

Jim Brooks is a very powerful director and it was a lot of intense work.

I've followed Mysskin sir's work, and I really like his style of filmmaking.

I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.

For me, it's not like I am going to look at the money the director's film has made before their film... For me, it is about working with the director whose work I have admired.

He [Steve McQueen] must have made that before he died.

After directing movies, I respect any director in this world, because making a movie as a director is tons and tons of work.

The Screen Directors Guild was organized solely by and for the motion picture director... We are not anti-anything: The Guild being formed for the purpose of assisting and improving the director's work in the form of a collective body, rather than as an individual, as was necessary in the past.

A little secret - I'm the child of a shrink. I am; my mom's a shrink, and my father's a lawyer. So believe me, I analyze and negotiate. That is a huge amount of the director's work, especially when you're working with people who - such a variety.

I get rewarded virtually every day with something amazing to see - whether it's a new shot, a miniature sweater, someone who's figured out how to make the hair look really great. We found a way to do the rain, finally. And mud. Make the trees. So I get to stay in constant motion as a director, you know, reviewing things. And there's a lot to review.

When you think of a particular director, you think you would have liked to be with them on one particular film and not necessarily on some other one.

In so many reviews that I'm reading of 'The Florida Project,' everyone is assuming it's my second film.