Tony Todd Quotes

Working with Subhash Ghai is always a different experience. Subhashji is my mentor. I'm always glad to work with him.

I can't wait for the rest of my career to meet these young writers and filmmakers so that I can produce and push a lot of their stories out there.

I believe that independent film making is the last frontier of creative expression available. So I'm always willing to lend a helping hand to a young film maker who's just getting into the business.

I love working with young people and young filmmakers, and I love working on first films. I think it's cool. It's fun. I just take it as it comes.

I would love to just keep working with really great directors who really inspire me.

Working with directors like Gurinder Chadha was a learning experience for me.

My biggest inspiration is to work with interesting filmmakers and learn from them in any way that I can.

If I hadn't met Scorsese, I would never have become a filmmaker. He has taught me everything I know about editing and has given me the best job in the world.

Men starting out have so many options of filmmakers to connect with artistically and be shepherded by and collaborate with. I just didn't have an older, more experienced me to help me. So I hope all the women making movies now are aware we have the opportunity to be that to new filmmakers.

'Beyond the Lights' was my fourth film. I gained a lot of knowledge, and I'm excited to share that with young filmmakers because I know how lost I was coming out of film school with that question of 'What's next?'

I've gotten to work with some wonderful directors and people who have been great teachers to me.

I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.

I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.

I really learned a lot when I worked on my grandpa's film 'Twixt' and got to be with him start to finish and sit next to him every day. That was my film school.

I have been lucky enough to work with the world's best designers and top stylists - who have been my mentors.

Basically, I see myself as a maker of things who knows how to support other makers of things. At the end of the day, I am just committed to helping put good stories out into the world in whatever role is appropriate and needed for that particular project.

I gave Joss Whedon and Judd Apatow their first writing jobs, as well as many other untried writers who went on to great success.

There are lots of good directors I would like to work with; I want to be inspired and challenged by them.

Every week, I take two phone calls or meetings with an aspiring producer or director.

Specifically with directors I'd worked with, and even some that I haven't, they were all incredibly generous with me, having really long conversations about what they felt was useful as tips.

I did my first film with Francis Ford Copploa, which spoiled the hell out of me.

I really just want to work with good directors and learn as much as I possibly can.

I've worked with David Lynch since I was 17, and working with him is home and family; being around Alexander Payne is home and family, Jonathan Demme. There are directors... Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson... They are directors where I create homes.

It's one of the things I love about my job: it's my job to help a director tell the story, to just be willing to help.

I think that's the problem, when you're a young filmmaker and you're starting out, you don't know people, you're easily lead, you don't know the right people to talk to, you really need guides.