director quotes

I’ve choreographed all of my movies.

Because of my wrestling background, nothing a director can throw at me on a set can faze me.

I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

Steven Spielberg was my childhood hero.

It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.

It’s very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.

Every relationship should eventually become a long-term relationship. Any director that I meet now isn’t just a director. He’s potentially a friend, and someone I can call to do a project that I want or that I have.

I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad… he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.

The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate.

Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, ‚Clint, you must remember, it’s only a movie.‘

There’s people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you’re compassionate.

I just really want to get music out and tour and go places I’ve never been, and just do more videos. I love photography and videography, and so I really want to direct videos when I can.

I’ve always said the one advantage an actor has of converting to a director is that he’s been in front of the camera. He doesn’t have to get in front of the camera again, subliminally or otherwise.

Everybody accuses me of moving fast when I direct a picture. I don’t move fast, but I just keep moving.

I feel like I might be a designer or stylist – or a director because I have always been super interested in cameras and editing.

In my career as a director, there’s always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: ‚What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?‘ At that time you have to say: ‚OK, forget that and just go ahead.‘

I liked Vittorio De Sica a lot, and I got to work with him once in a segment movie. He was a great director. He was a very charismatic character and a guy I watched a lot when he was directing.

A director makes 100 decisions an hour. Students ask me how you know how to make the right decision, and I say to them, ‚If you don’t know how to make the right decision, you’re not a director.‘

Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, ‚One tear, right now,‘ that one tear would pop out.