Director Quotes

Directors tell me what to do, and I kind of just put my own twist to it.

Not being a commodity enough to be hired by the big directors for projects that have some kind of integrity.

When I was creative director [at Estée Lauder], I was always being asked about my beauty must-haves. From there I had this fun idea to create a line of what was in my makeup bag. But I also love accessories, and people associate me with home, family, and beauty.

If you’re a movie actor, you’re on your own – you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.

And then, there are the producers and the writers and the director on the other side of the glass, and what they want.

Most of the top actors and actresses may be working in ten or twelve films at the same time, so they will give one director two hours and maybe shoot in Bombay in the morning and Madras in the evening. It happens.

You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.

I’ve done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.

When you hire great actors, you’re lucky, so you just try to create an atmosphere where they can succeed and relax and take risks. You’re happy that you get to watch them at the monitor and that your name is on the director’s chair.

Actors aren’t stupid, mostly, and if there’s a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director’s going for, if you’re aware of that too, you can do things to help that.