Roger Michell famous quotes

I've tried to stay out of the frame more as a director.
-- Roger Michell

#Directors

I want to tell stories about Europe - I feel profoundly European, I don't feel like an American.
-- Roger Michell

#Europe #Stories #Want

I'm not saying that it's wrong to make huge Hollywood films but it's just a different kind of feeling, a different sort of pleasure.
-- Roger Michell

#Hollywood Films #Feelings #Different

Most of my films seem to be about people bewildered by the world around them, who don't fit into it and are trying to understand it.
-- Roger Michell

#People #Trying #World

Any film I've made, I've only really begun to understand in the cutting room. That's when the story shows itself to you, like a wreck coming out of the sea.
-- Roger Michell

#Cutting #Sea #Stories

Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.

Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.

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.

When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me.

All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.

For me, there was never an end game for becoming a director.

I've always loved music videos - I used to make my own for bands like Pearl Jam. My favorite directors are Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, and Patrick Daughters.

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.

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.

One of the most, in a weird way, encouraging things a director can say to an actor - I know this as an actor - is when you ask them a question, they say, I don't know - 'cause it means there's some space there for you to find out. And it means that there's going to be a process.