Scott Ellis Quotes
I don't consider myself a flashy director. A lot of times, people will look and don't even know what I do.
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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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My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet.
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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 cry at films and TV and even adverts.
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There are times where I am trying to make the big play before I even catch the football.
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My character in 'Batman v Superman' isn't supposed to be Japanese, but director Zack Snyder said he'd seen me in 'Wolverine' and had to get me in the film somehow. Hearing that was like music to my ears.
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I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.
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I took acting five times as seriously as anyone else. I just couldn't show it.
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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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Some actors don't even read the stage directions at all.
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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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I love movies where you can sense that the director risked biting off more than they can chew.
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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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Do you know what I'm working on now? My first feature as a director.
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There's a certain thing when you start getting into your late thirties or early forties where you stop caring. Not to the extent where you stop caring about the music, you just stop caring about what anyone thinks of you, and you just kind of let it go - let the chips fall where they may.
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I think this is a moment of a lot of possibilities, and openings. Occupy and the 99% movement are really going to break through, and we are going to create a new economy, an economy that we need that works for everyone. Where everyone works, everyone counts and everyone contributes.
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It's getting late. I must return to my ship or my men will think I've drowned and be celebrating.
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You had to stay awake married to Humphrey Bogart. Every time I thought I could relax and do everything I wanted, he'd buck. There was no way to predict his reactions, no matter how well I knew him. As he'd said before our wedding, he expected to be happily married and stay that way, but he never expected to settle down. He liked keeping people off balance. He was good for me -- I could never be quite sure what he would do.
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I don't consider myself a flashy director. A lot of times, people will look and don't even know what I do.
