David Michod famous quotes

To see great actors bring it all to life us exhilerating
-- David Michod

#Actors

You can have levity in the film because real people look for levity in their lives.
-- David Michod

#Real #People #Looks

I love the casting process. It's a cliché but I think it's the most important part of the process. I really enjoy it too. I love putting that jigsaw puzzle of people together.
-- David Michod

#Thinking #Jigsaw Puzzles #People

I find music the the clearest and easiest way in to what a movie will feel like - more so than visual references or other movies or dense dossiers of research material. Every now and then I'll send a piece of music or two to people I'm working with - actors or heads of department - when I think it'll help them get a sense of the kind of movie I'm proposing. Often those pieces will end up in the movie - sometimes they won't.
-- David Michod

#Thinking #Two #People

The first time when you can really get a sense of what the movie is going to look and feel like is when you're in a casting room and seeing it.
-- David Michod

#Casting #Rooms #Firsts

I don't want to redo what I've [just done]. I don't want to retread old ground.
-- David Michod

#Want #Done #Redos

I'd like to make all different kinds of movies. I don't think it would make sense though for my second film to walk straight into a musical even though I'd like to.
-- David Michod

#Thinking #Musical #Different

I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.

I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.

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.

I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.

You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of the challenges of being an actor - especially a film actor - is that you have to maintain these heightened emotions for long periods of time. There's no trick to it. You just have to do.

You always have to make positive choices as an actor, even when you're playing someone who may not be doing the best things.

It's every actor's dream to work in a hit show on Broadway and also shoot a television show.

Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it's like, 'Yes, let's do it.'

The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.

The only fear I have is that I will wake up one day and nobody will allow me to do films. This is a fear every actor has.