Director Quotes

But now I wish I could back to Stockholm to make international films there.

But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.

ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.

A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality.

Whoever becomes the head of the National Theater finds himself in a position like that of Nelson's Column - pigeons dump on you because you're there.

The youth of France do not want a new neo-liberal contract.

We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets.

We give you characters we'd feel very comfortable judging, and then go: 'Oh yeah? Watch this'.

We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.

Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly.

The wonderful thing about Clint is you can never second guess how he is going to react to anything.

I was trying to talk about where we are right now as a society, and talk about the fear we all live in, and certainly since 9-11, how it's affected us and the world.

I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.

I just asked myself, what piece of that man's soul did he just chew off and swallow to get next week's assignment? You know, just to live, just to work as an artist, or to feed the family?

I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre.

As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.

I miss my mother very, very much.

The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.

Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.

Russell Crowe is very difficult, but it's worth it. He's the real thing. I can tell you this. Russell Crowe was just as difficult before he was an international star as he was afterwards.

Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.

My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive producing credit on this film. We've made three films together and I would never underestimate the impact of a writer.

Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.

Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.

It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.

It's much easier to work with an unknown.

It was the era of Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson; they all had a certain look.

It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.

If people are worried about the size of their trailers, I kind of say their priorities are off.

I try to get the best performance an actor can give.