j over
01-04-2008, 06:07 AM
An overall nice little roundtable interview with five of last year's high-profile-helmers here (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/features/film/e3i483285045a5ab9c646ffc5c78792c319?pn=1).
"The fact is, what do directors do? You don't just take the script that somebody gives you and illustrate it. I mean, I don't do that. The movie that you see is not the movie that I received on the page."
-- Writer/Director Julian Schnabel
"Look, when you're a writer, credit just flees from you like you can't believe. It's like you're anti-credit. It's just so hard to hang onto anything. When you become a director, you become highly absorbent, magnetic to credit. You get credit for everything: You get credit for the DP; you get credit for the actors. It is what it is."
-- Writer/Director Tony Gilroy
"The fact is, what do directors do? You don't just take the script that somebody gives you and illustrate it. I mean, I don't do that. The movie that you see is not the movie that I received on the page."
-- Writer/Director Julian Schnabel
"Look, when you're a writer, credit just flees from you like you can't believe. It's like you're anti-credit. It's just so hard to hang onto anything. When you become a director, you become highly absorbent, magnetic to credit. You get credit for everything: You get credit for the DP; you get credit for the actors. It is what it is."
-- Writer/Director Tony Gilroy