You can have a great script, or a great director and a bad script, and get a great movie. Nothing really guarantees anything.
You can have an amazing director and terrible script, and the film's not going to be great. But if you have the most incredible script and an okay director, you could still get a really good film.
You can tell how good a filmmaker is if you can turn the sound down but you can still feel the story.
It's possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can't make a good movie from a bad script.
Martin Campbell is a director who has that ability to marshal so many forces together and create a film.
I don't go by brand names for directors.
There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors
Matching character and actor is what a good director does.
Krishna Vamsi is a very good director.
The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.
Sometimes a great director will do a bad job and an okay director will do a great job. You never know.
With good content, a solid director can make a film without a superstar.
Capra is an old-time movie craftsman, the master of every trick in the bag, and in many ways he is more at home with the medium than any other Hollywood director. But all of his details give the impression of contrived effect.
Somebody who likes to do my plays is a good director for them.
When you have a good director, it's just wonderful.
John Doyle just knows how to feed actors, and what comes out of us, good, bad, right, wrong, doesn't matter. There's no fear or censure. He opens up the creative goo and all of the actor vessel stuff. He knows how to do it. It's just incredible.
There is a magic thing called 'tone' in a film, that the director must master and maintain.
There are some directors, lesser in confidence or skill, who make the actor feel very uncomfortable because you feel you're auditioning for them, every day, and that's a terrible feeling on the set.
Kabir Khan is that rare director who manages to merge Bollywood formula with a good story.
I think that certain directors are better at choosing actors that match well with each other. And I have feelings about actors and who I think I'd work well with better moreso than others.
I think Polanski's an amazing director.
Lasse [Hallström] is really good at emotionally engaging an audience without hitting them over the face with it.
The thing that struck me most after first viewing 'The Sessions' was the charm of Mark O'Brien and the intimacy that the director, Ben Lewin, manages to capture perfectly on screen. I did not feel forced or cajoled in any way into believing the story.
That really sets great directors apart from good directors: their ability to make you feel like you matter, even if your part is much smaller. That's one thing I found with most of the great directors I worked with: They all have that skill. Not everyone takes the time.
