The dance that happens, between actor and director, is a very delicate thing. . . it's why people tend to work together on many films over and over.
You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.
When I came to England, the first director I met was Charles Sturridge, who told me, 'You speak like somebody out of the 1950s.
The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized.
If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.
When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.
When I'm in the studio, I write the music, I play the different instruments, I produce it, I arrange it, and it's a self-indulgent exercise. It's the way I make my music. And when I'm acting, I get to leave myself behind, which is a relief. I get to collaborate with a director; I respect the director's medium and all the actors and actresses. So at the end of the day, it's about a character and it's about a director's vision. It's a really good balance for being so intense and alone in my personal process of making music.
Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.
I've learned a lot from Clint [Eastwood], who's an extremely economical director.
When you do a movie, it's like going on a journey. It's really like the director is the captain of the ship, and that energy, everybody feels.
The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.
I think that's the job of a director really, to sort of funnel all the creativity into one centralized point of being.
Force Majeure is a jolt. You won't know what hit you. Director Ostlund shifts gears from humor to psychological thriller with cunning skill.
Mankiewicz was a brilliant director.
I think Paul Weitz is a really amazing director, obviously with tons of acclaim and stuff, but I still think he is underrated. And I think he's amazing to work with, so I was super lucky.
You never want to be the director who dropped the ball, you know?
One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.
In cinema, the leading player is the director.
A good [film] director is talented, imaginative, and does his homework.
I don't really need a lot of help from a director.