Rectors Quotes

Zhang Yimou is one of the best directors on mainland China. - Jet Li

You'll have to ask the previous directors about that. - Michael Kiernan

You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an actor or understands acting. They're able to finesse performances out of you that a lot directors can't get. - Ian Somerhalder

You see this trend a lot in the film industry, where talented young directors are discovered by the industry, which then puts a bunch of money in their hands and they end up making a lot of junk basically a bunch of eye candy that ends up looking like a really good video game on the screen. - Christopher Sharrett

You need the words, you need the script, you need the material, you need the commitment, you need the passion, it's like we depend on writers, we depend on producers, directors depend on us and once things are in the divine order as they happen. - Nia Long

You have to travel abroad to find out how well-regarded Taiwan (art house) movies and directors are. But at home, nobody pays any attention. - Leste Chen

You have to remind casting directors out here that you don't just do one thing. There's a lot of people who do just one thing. - Stephen Root

You have to nail the right tone because sometimes when you just see his films cold, you're not quite sure. It's the same in - I'm trying to think of other directors with a similar sense - David Lynch's films, Tim's films, some of Cronenberg's stuff. - Danny Elfman

You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience. - Steven Bochco