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.
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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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Every director should take an acting class.
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I got to work with Robert DeNiro once and it was a strange experience. Gwyneth Paltrow and I were doing Great Expectations movie together and we were complaining about what a mediocre film experience it was. DeNiro showed up on set and all of a sudden the director got better, the director of photography got better - everybody got more interested and excited. DeNiro isn't waiting for other people to create the environment that he wants, he brings it along with him.
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I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from public radio. Those people are kind of old.
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It is possible for Japan to become the model of a society that does not rely on nuclear power.
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There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.
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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.
