Chris Evans Quotes

I haven't worked with a director who is a crazy person at all.

I think, at the end of the day, filmmaking is a team, but eventually there's got to be a captain.

I was constantly reading books about how to direct, and asking directors, 'How do you do it?' And when I finally actually started doing the work, it seemed like you have to be decisive and have an opinion. But also you have to be a good collaborator and hire the right people to shore up whatever your skill set is.

Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.

I'm learning more and more to share creativity with the crew and actors. A film crew is more powerful if you listen to them, but it does make my job more tough because I have to listen.

And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made.

Every film you work on is different, and that's part of what it's like for anybody who works on a film, is to learn how to work with others. Learn from top to bottom. Actors have to learn how to work with the director and the director has to learn how to work with actors, and that's not just those two departments.

I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.

Eventually, everyone said, Why don't you direct? It would save time. And that's how it started.

I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers. I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't matter. And the rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic, and the best idea wins.

As a director, I never feel that I have the answers.

The directors I respect are the ones who have a collaborative attitude, who collaborate with actors.

Directing takes a lot of time.

As a director, you're a bit of a dictator. But I feel that you're a better director if you're open to other people's ideas. It means that it's tougher: you have to be in a choosing process; you have to put the ego aside. As long as everybody's aiming in the same direction... I'm open to my main partners in the film crew.

There is an isolated experience to being a director. It's very communal because there's a crew, but it's only you. You're the one on the hook.

As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.

With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.

When you're a director, you really live whatever you do.

There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the need for time is such that it's overwhelming at times, and the stream of responsibility.

The great thing about movies is that they're collaborative. And the worst thing is that they're collaborative.

I believe in discussing very thoroughly what should be the goal. When discussing it, I allow others to give their views.

As a filmmaker, I'm a collaborator first.

I think filmmaking is a team work and it's a shared responsibility.

I would say it's not as hard as writing, because when you're a writer, you walk right into the pit all by yourself, but when you're a director, there are at least 80 people who scream, 'Don't do that!' when you make a mistake.

We tend to see films as artifacts of one mind. The reality of it is, I think, when you come out here and start working, you have to learn pretty quickly that it's a very collaborative process.