Director Quotes

When I took the job as Estée Lauder’s creative director, the first thing I did was go into the archives! I love taking our heritage and making it modern.

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

I want to become a movie director and win an Academy Award. That’s what I’m trying to do.

I always think it’s a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.

I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.

People know me through my characters. I don’t think they have any idea about the individual that I am. They know I am a director’s son, and I am married to an actress.

I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that’s what I’m always looking for, a director that’s going to help me go places I’ve never been before.

In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.

Close-Up is a very particular film in my oeuvre. It’s a film that was made in a very particular way; mainly because I didn’t really have the time to think about how to go about making the film.