#director

There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#cannes #director #female #festival #film

They offered me that film before I did Frida and I said, no, I'm not capable of directing. Then after seeing Julie direct, I was inspired by it. She motivated me to do it, because we don't have role models as woman for directors. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#because #before #capable #did #direct

My favorite parts of work as an actor and a director are those unplanned mistakes that do happen, because it's like catching lightning in a bottle. It's the best part of what we do. ↗

— David Duchovny

#because #best #best part #bottle #catching

I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#being #brain #director #eating #experts

On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all. ↗

— Griffin Dunne

#done #envy #every #having #i

I really liked doing a number of the projects and directors, and etc., etc., I knew about half-way through that I would never be doing that again. It's just not me. I really am happy as a part-time film composer, not a full-time film composer. ↗

— Danny Elfman

#again #am #composer #directors #doing

I felt that if there wasn't going to be a good opportunity, then I would just go back to second units which I love, keep working with great directors, keep learning and knowing that the opportunity would come when the time was right. ↗

— David R. Ellis

#come #directors #felt #go #going

Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#director #lot #money #movie #putting

In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors. ↗

— John Turturro

#corners #crazed #directors #exposed #film

I don't know why directors sign on to these projects and completely rewrite everything. ↗

— Larry Wachowski

#directors #everything #i #know #projects