Lara Stone Quotes

Tim and Fritz Lang I loved working with. Not Hitchcock so much. There was no communication.

My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.

I've worked with Judd since 'Undeclared,' and once you work with Judd you never stop working with Judd.

'Let's Get Harry' was where I met Bob Singer and worked with him for the first time, and then 'Reasonable Doubts' was the second time, and there was a thing after that called 'Charlie Grace' that was the third time. I liked working with Bob. A nice man and a good partner.

There's no such thing as an actor giving positive criticism to a director. The minute you say 'Don't you think it would look nicer...', that director's going to hate your guts. Particularly if it's a good idea.

Sometimes you are being interviewed by someone and you think, if I knew this person they'd be my best friend. Other times you're being interviewed by a complete jerk.

I have enjoyed all the artists I've worked with.

Ted Griffin, who created 'Terriers,' is one of my dearest friends.

People don't come up to me very often. Everyone is always in such disbelief that I can go to the market.

Creatively, I thought we were still viable and could do more records. But our working relationship just wasn't happening at all, and our chemistry as people broke down because of that.

I consider myself extremely lucky to have worked with so many great collaborators in my lifetime.

Somebody described it to me the best as when you go in to write a song with two people that you've never met, you're pretty much going in and taking off your pants in front of strangers, so it's a really weird feeling.

I've known Greg Berlanti from way back. I've done two shows with him, and both times, he was like, 'I've got something good for you,' and they did not disappoint.

Madonna and I worked very closely. I was more like the big sister to her.

I've had the great fortune of working with incredible people on many shows.

I love Malcolm Lee and jumped on the opportunity to work with him as a director.

As far as an actor-director connection, I think those can develop, and when they do, they're really great, and you just cultivate it like you would any relationship or friendship. If you find that something special, it helps down the line when you want to do more projects with each other.

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'd work with Danny Boyle every day of the week. No matter what he was doing I would do that.

My whole life, meeting people is like a blind date, because I feel like they've already seen the video on me.

J.J. Abrams and I met, and we just had this incredible kind of vibe between us.

People who know your work and know your personality, they know your strengths and weaknesses. A director like Guillermo del Toro, he knows more about me than I do. I trust him when he tells me what part I'm going to be playing in something, because he's envisioned that that can only be done by me. He knows it.

I didn't know that people compared Bill Hicks and I but certainly I'm flattered if they do. I knew Bill a bit. We had dinner a couple of times and played guitar together once. I really tried to keep my distance from him professionally.

People with film careers get a whole onslaught of people they spend 12 hours a day with every three months. It's like speed dating. You've got a fast-track to social intimacy with a whole bunch of people.

You do become very close like a family but because you see each other for such an intense period of time on the set everyday. You really don't end up socializing that much.