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 have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer.
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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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Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
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I unplug the phone and close the door and just stick with it. I don't ever go out for lunch and I don't take vacations. I like to be awake when no one else is: either just before dawn in the morning or late, late at night. Silence helps.
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I had a one-year-old son. How will my failure or success limit what he becomes? I was trying to write screenplays. It doesn't pay very well until you sell one. I was poor.
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Man has been adjudged a social animal.
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Any time you do something - a protest - you know there's going to be backlash.
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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.
