In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
I am a very impatient director.
As a director and an actor, it is very difficult to say "this person was better than another person. " I judge by chemistry of the actors but it is difficult being a judge. I will never bash any of the actors.
I've tried to stay out of the frame more as a director.
In the acting game, you spend a long time fighting against what the director perceives you to be. And half the time the directors don't know.
It's quite liberating to have a director stand beside the camera and say: "Do this now, and do that now. . . " It's also a bit sordid but it liberates an actor, I think.
I feel fortunate. I've really gotten to work with amazing talented people, and to learn from them, which is why I'm doing this. If I can work with the best director I'm going to do it.
The majority of people know me as a dancer, but they don't also know that I'm a director, a songwriter and a producer.
I don't have a director. The audience directs me.
I don't want to be a director. I want to direct. There's a difference.
The choice that you really have is that you can go and work for TV which is so badly paid that you have to really churn them out which I think probably helps you develop certain muscles. I'm not sure though that you really want to have those muscles as a director.
Michael's Powell art director was a painter and they had a wonderful friendship and artistic understanding. Michael himself, in the way he designed his own house, it was always with bright colours. Very un-English!
I love when a director says, "I don't know. "
I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started.
I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
When I'm making the movie, I absolutely do. I work so hard, and out of the raw material that is the script and talks I have with the director, the writer, I create, I hope, a very specific person who wouldn't have otherwise existed. However, do I then attach and hang on to the finished product? No. The experience of the creation of the character is what feeds me, what excites me, challenges me.
I wish that every director was as interested in doing as much in camera and with physical objects as much as possible as J. J. Abrams is.
The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwright, no stage director, no emperor, however powerful, has ever exercised such absolute authority to arrange a stage or field of battle and to command such unswervingly dutiful actors or troops.
I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine.
As a kid I was always writing and directing plays in my basement with my neighborhood cronies. But please don't get me wrong, I have zero regrets when it comes to the acting stuff. I think it's made me a better director.