One picture and one win cannot right a million wrongs. It's a step in the right direction. We have to get to a point where a movie like "Moonlight" winning [Oscar] or Barry Jenkins being nominated and winning, you know, for a screenplay or being nominated for best director - that it's just commonplace. They shouldn't be a novelty.
I tend to, if I decide to do a job, want to be able to trust my director.
This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all.
As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does.
You have to have the essential pleasure of making a movie. It's such a huge factor and adventure for a director because you really are the leader and the captain.
My father was a director, and he used to always tell me, "You should be an actress. " When I was 17, he gave me a job so that I'd be in the union.
Lloyd Richards is another director who was like that, who was a teacher.
Be collaborative. I've had some of my best experiences with directors who were able to sit down and have a conversation and ask me what I thought.
[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.
On stage I am the actor, director and the bouncer all at the same time. Fear does not exist in this dojo does it? No Sensi! Sorry when I get excited I have to toss in some Karate Kid quotes.
Your crew becomes your family and you trust the director and the other actors on the set, and it's a very safe place.
I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.
The movie Ed Wood, about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for Stargate.
Really good director sometimes will kind of see what the actors are doing and then get in there. Because there's the realization that you have to find it a little bit and then kind of clump around and sniff it out.
The lack of women directors is a sad fact of life. Kathryn Bigelows thrilling Best Director win may help turn things around.
I was really fortunate from the time I arrived in Hollywood to work with some of the greatest directors from the beginning. I worked with Robert Altman, John Boorman, and of course Steven Spielberg, Michael Cimino, Brian De Palma. . . I couldn't pick one of them; they were all different, but they are all so talented.
I'm at the mercy of others because I'm not a director. I'm not a producer. I'm not a writer.
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 never turned down anything and never argued with any producer or director.
But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.