I owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me.
Ang Lee’s been nominated for Best Director for Life of Pi, which is what I’m going to call the six weeks after I take this dress off!
Ever director has at least 10 bad films in them.
One would hope that you would have a CBO director who does not let ideology get in the way of making good estimates, [Congress] values having a credible institution that they can rely on to give them the best estimates possible.
You either are a good director or you're not.
I've tried to stay out of the frame more as a director.
I always feel like the less you say when you're making a movie, as a director, is the best. That means everything's going great.
I love working fast. I don't relish the director who wants to do 25 to 30 takes, or the actors who insist on doing 25 or 30 takes.
Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
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.
When a director makes a mistake, people suffer. People suffer horribly sometimes.
How do I let the director know how obsessed I am and willing to do anything for the movie? Like, I wanted to write this one director a letter, so I wrote him a handwritten note. But then I was like, 'How many people are writing this guy handwritten letters? Is it going to seem cheesy? What do I do?'
That's how I am as a director - if somebody does a really good take, I can't help it, I'm not even aware of it. Actors really, really need positive reinforcement.
I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.
You pick projects for the part, the director, and the script. I just want to do different, interesting stuff.
The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.
You never want to be the director who dropped the ball, you know?
I'm not really a guy who wants to be a director, anyway.
It was an audition process after Breakfast Club, and I wasn't really sure I wanted to do the movie. There was a bigger role that Rob [Lowe] was already set to play, so the role they wanted me to audition for was Alec. [Director] Joel Schumacher. . . this is back in the days when you could trick me with things like this. He goes, "Don't you think you can play it?" And I go, "Okaaaaay. " So then I did it for all the wrong reasons but I don't think I would fall for that again. Who knows. I might.
Do you know what I'm working on now? My first feature as a director.