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"On Darjeeling, I was on set every day and I acted as the second unit director and a producer on that film. I was there throughout the whole process. On Moonrise Kingdom, I showed up for one day."
"I'm a writer and director, and the movie I've seen a million times is 'Stardust Memories' by Woody Allen, starring Woody Allen and Charlotte Rampling."
"I'm a curious person. I pursue things based on what sparks my interest. I'm not thinking about what role I play. I don't have to be a movie director or this or that. I just want to be part of projects and places that are of interest to me."
"I've wanted to work with [Kairo aka Pulse director] Kiyoshi Kurosawa, but he has not been making horror movies recently."
"It's such an intimate experience, being a director, artistically. It's deep and it's satisfying and it's wonderful, on so many levels, but it's also really scary."
"I can rely on me [being a director], unlike some actors. I never got anything less than what I needed from the lead actor."
"Martin Campbell is a director who has that ability to marshal so many forces together and create a film."
"No two directors make the same film the same way."
"My job as the director is to make that as authentic as I can and not to disturb the revelry."
"Sometimes directors may not give you words, you know? They may not talk at all! You've just got to use your radar to figure out how you can get to the center and not lose yourself, but still be directed at the same time."
"f you're making the scene as a director, you're looking for alternatives, once you've got to that place that's very much in Rowan's [Atkins] head, to see if you can take it further, in some places. Sometimes you do absolutely know there's something there. You just feel it in your bones."
"Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project."
"It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached."
"I think film is a director's medium and the good filmmakers that I like tell the darker stories. Therefore, I'm always inclined to follow people like David Cronenberg."
"I try to offer as much as I can to the director so he has as much to work with as possible to create the character that, really, he wants to create in a sense."
"Your director is your everything and you devote yourself to them and you want to help create their vision."
"I'd say I got three or four offers for films that had female directors, so in my career I haven't had that opportunity before. That's exciting."
"As a director you have to - you don't have the option of saying, "I'm not watching this.""
"I think Jesse [Zwick] is part of a new generation of director, because we'd be kidding ourselves if we did not acknowledge that there is this unsaid rule that the hero looks a certain way."
"If a director, I believe, has vision and knows so clearly what they want, then you can have a film that can perform. Whereas you can have done 50 movies, but if you're unsure this time, your movie may not turn out."
