Director Issues Quotes

Even a modicum of celebrity is hard to deal with. You see it with actors and directors all the time.

I had some things I had to fix. It took me 14 years to do it. But it was never really fun back in the day to work with directors who were a lot older and were like authoritarian and talking to you like that.

Trying to get it together with me as a director was impossible. No one wanted to work with me.

Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you're working with an actor who's just unbearable.

Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture.

It causes havoc on set anytime a director wants to go backward rather than forward.

When 'Pune-52' was offered to me, I liked the script, but I wasn't convinced about the kissing and other intimate scenes. I tried talking to the director, but things didn't work out.

I don't want actors reasoning with me about 'motivation' and all that bull.

The thing I absolutely hate is when directors don't know what they want, and then they ask you to do it this way, and then maybe that way, and maybe that way, because they haven't made up their minds what they want. So you're running around in circles trying to give them what they want.

I've been in so many bad movies and worked with so many bad directors that I go into a film expecting nothing.

I wanna work with good people. I don't want to work with screaming, yelling directors who've got daddy issues. I just don't want to deal with those guys.