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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It can take a few months to get a new 10 minutes. Usually it takes like 10 times of repeatedly trying different variations of a joke until I land on one I think is really good.
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At this point in time, I don't know if I would change my mind or not, ... I'd certainly consider it. But when I look at the reasons we came up with it in the first place, I'm not sure I would.
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I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.
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The first heart you win over is that casting director. In first meetings, they'll be the ones who see your pitch for the character. And then as you get further up, they'll be the ones reading with you in front of the network.
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There's something great about all your worst fears coming true and being said about you. There's a tremendous liberation on some level.
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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.
