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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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that.
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Forever, we all had a real clear understanding of what Parcells' teams looked like and played like: tough as hell and didn't beat themselves.
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People are starting to go on about my weight but I'm not going to change my size because they don't like the way I look.
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By the time I was 18, I had discovered that I didn't want to be an actress forever. I've always been basically a shy person and it was hard being 'on' all the time. So finally, I just walked away. I've never regretted that decision.
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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.
