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.

Scott Ellis

• Times
• Director
• Consider
• Even
• Flashy

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Movie
  • Color
  • Painting

• My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Sweet
  • Times
  • Manners

• I'm a believer in trusting the director.

  

  B. J. Novak
  • Director
  • Believer
  • Trusting

• 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.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Action
  • Star
  • Actor

• I got to work with legendary director Garry Marshall.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Work
  • Director
  • Got

• I cry at films and TV and even adverts.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Films
  • Cry
  • Even

• There are times where I am trying to make the big play before I even catch the football.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Play
  • Football
  • Times

• 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.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Music
  • Character
  • Film

• I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Kind
  • Director
  • Message

• I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Nothing
  • Revolutionary
  • Even

• I took acting five times as seriously as anyone else. I just couldn't show it.

  

  Victor Mature
  • Acting
  • Times
  • Seriously

• I'm happiest when I can just be a director and watch.

  

  Iain Glen
  • I Can
  • Director
  • Watch

• I have my pride. I'm a director. I'm not going to go and recreate some other director's vision.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Vision
  • Pride
  • Director

• I don't have a director. The audience directs me.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • Me
  • Audience
  • Director

• Some actors don't even read the stage directions at all.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Stage
  • Some
  • Even

• I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'

  

  Carla Gallo
  • Play
  • Drunk
  • Director

• I love movies where you can sense that the director risked biting off more than they can chew.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Movies
  • Sense
  • Director

• My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Parents
  • Actor
  • Director

• He plays beyond pain a lot of times. He'll be fresh-legged.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Pain
  • Times
  • Plays

• I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Work
  • Never
  • Times

• I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.

  

  Bono U2
  • Times
  • Prejudice
  • Swallow

• A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth.

  

  Ernst Mach
  • Consider
  • Temperature
  • Dependence

• I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.

  

  Oliver North
  • Why
  • Guy
  • Know

• I don't consider myself a flashy director. A lot of times, people will look and don't even know what I do.

  

  Scott Ellis
  • Times
  • Director
  • Consider