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If you have a script that's not great, if you have a great director, you can make a great movie, but if you have a great script with a director who's not good, never are you going to have a good movie.

You can have an amazing director and terrible script, and the film's not going to be great. But if you have the most incredible script and an okay director, you could still get a really good film.

There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.

I think every director has a different take, some are good, some are bad. The directors you get on best with sometimes don't make the best films, so who's to say who is right.

I think the script is the key. Regardless of how great everybody else is working on a film, if you're working on a script that you don't think is great, you're not gonna be able to make a great film. Whereas if the script is great, then you can.

I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker.

I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.

Sometimes a great director will do a bad job and an okay director will do a great job. You never know.

I have to say that whatever decisions I make, I really do think that movie making is a director's medium. They are the people that ultimately shape the film, and a director can take great material and turn it into garbage if they are not capable of making a good movie.

No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.