James Wong Howe Quotes
Whether you're a cameraman or a director, you should ask yourself every now and then, 'What am I trying to do?' Be honest and keep things very simple.
Quotes to Explore
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In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
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I'm a believer in trusting the director.
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I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff.
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I got to work with legendary director Garry Marshall.
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I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.
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I'm happiest when I can just be a director and watch.
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I have my pride. I'm a director. I'm not going to go and recreate some other director's vision.
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I don't have a director. The audience directs me.
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The audience has always been my best director.
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I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
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Kabir Khan is that rare director who manages to merge Bollywood formula with a good story.
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I love movies where you can sense that the director risked biting off more than they can chew.
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On the clothes front, I have a designer who sits with the director for each film to chalk out a look for me based on the script.
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You need a director, a script, and a role to justify a risk.
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My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors.
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Do you know what I'm working on now? My first feature as a director.
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I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.
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It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.
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My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous.
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We got on his label, and the Bizarre organization is just going up and up. So we have faith.
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Our interpretations reveal less about God or the Bible than they do about ourselves. They reveal what we want to defend, what we want to attack, what we want to ignore, what we’re unwilling to question.
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Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.
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Whether you're a cameraman or a director, you should ask yourself every now and then, 'What am I trying to do?' Be honest and keep things very simple.
