Norman Lloyd Quotes

Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director.

I think you cannot make films without choosing everything.

I remembered watching the film from Alfred Hitchcock, 'Dial M for Murder,' and he shot almost all of that movie in one room. There was a genius in what Hitchcock did by manipulating things in that room so that you could see the distances between things like the tables and the vases because of how he used perspective.

Film work can be very interesting, but it also can be awfully boring because who creates the film? The actors? No. It is the director. It's his piece of work.

My job is to kind of nudge them. Who said it, where, like, '90% of the job is casting,' so all I do is try to come to set and focus on getting all the best shots to cover the story; that's really it.

I am eternally impressed and amazed by what directors do.

The experience of shooting a film is about the script, the captain of the ship who is the director, and the way they push their actors and teams to give their best. It's not about the language and the region.

As a director, I start with the visual.

Directing is a tremendous art.

In the old days, before there was such a thing as film schools, directors learned the camera by watching other directors, and learning from their own dailies, and listening to the cameraman, and seeing what would work. Some of those guys could cut their movies in their head.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

I like to be on set and see what the camera guys are up to. I like to see all the jobs that come together to make the thing you are also making.

I do want to direct a movie from horseback one day.

I use every single thing that Alfred Hitchcock taught me in my acting career... I am very grateful for the education he gave me in making motion pictures.

I think that's the key to being a director: to be able to get the shot and move on quickly.

He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.

I discovered that, in order to write a magnificent piece, you should shoot the images because once you are filming, you are writing the script in your mind.

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

He was such a fabulous drama coach. What better person to have than Alfred Hitchcock? His work as a director was impeccable. I learned so much.

A good script and a good brief from the director is enough to let me know what is expected of me.

I have considered the directing, actually. Not so much the writing. That is not really interesting, but the directing is really interesting to me.

Chris Columbus was really interesting to watch how he works with children.

I was very glad later when I was directing that I wasn't in the hands of a cinematographer and hoping that he would do it well. I would know what he was doing, and we could discuss how that scene would look.