I love film noir, so Billy Wilder is like my favorite director of all time.
Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
In the same way that a film director would use a film lens to blur out a certain item or use a spotlight, I use certain movements that draw the eye instinctually.
I went to Cal Arts and AFI, and I worked on 'Bonfire Of The Vanities.' I got this grant from the Academy to be Brian De Palma's apprentice director. And it was such a harrowing, disillusioning, awful experience.
When I'm on a picture, I have two bosses - the director and the producer. My co-star is not my boss.
As a producer and director, I've tried for years to get properties off the ground for girls, and I've been hitting a brick wall.
I've always been slightly self-conscious as an actor, and I guess that sometimes reads as pomposity. Starting when I was 30, I somehow gave off an impression at an audition that had them mentally put me in a three-piece suit or put an attache case in my hand. If there was a stiff-guy part, the director would brighten up when I came in.
I wanted to be Steven Spielberg, Tim Burton, Stanley Kubrick, David Cronenberg, Ridley Scott, James Cameron, and Hitchcock. I'd wanted to be a director since 13, and horror and the suspense thriller were the most powerful genres to me.
A director is a director. We shouldn't categorize one into a this or that director.
No director can ever deliver what's on his or her mind totally, but 'Baahubali-2' is the closest I can get in executing what I had envisaged onto the celluloid.
The chasm between independent film and commercial film is now so wide. You either have to be super-famous and get a first-time director or writer's indie script off the ground, or you're a newcomer and go and put a cape on for four years.
A director is a choreographer, both politically and creatively.
On my 'Mickey' video, I was the director, producer, choreographer, editor, singer - everything.
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
I was the one who kept telling my second husband he should become a cinematographer. I paid for him to get his director's card, and he went on to make 'Godspell.'
The cinematographer's basically translating the director's vision into imagery.
It's a very tricky relationship, the cinematographer and the director as a woman.
I have a very clear vision, and I come from film, where director is God, so if there's a clash, it's painful.
I worked at Planned Parenthood for eight years, rising through the ranks from volunteer escort to clinic counselor to clinic director.
The 9/11 Commission strongly recommends that the National Intelligence Director be fully in control of the budget, from developing it to implementing it, to ensuring that the National Intelligence Director has the clout to make decisions.
