Catherine Deneuve (Catherine Fabienne Dorléac) Quotes

Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often.

Catherine Deneuve

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• To Be
• Pushed Up

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• I think the three Mexican directors that came before me did a very good job in Hollywood because they came in and started directing things like 'Harry Potter.'

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Good
  • Job
  • Think

• I am half Puerto Rican, a quarter German and a quarter black. That was always a big issue for me - being mixed race - because casting directors tended to be very like, 'OK, are you Hispanic for this role?' 'Or is she going to be African American?'

  

  Naya Rivera
  • American
  • Race
  • German

• Try to be in as many relationships as you can.

  

  Cher Sonny & Cher
  • Relationships
  • To Be
  • Many Times

• To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin.

  

  Mark Twain
  • To Be
  • Bodkin

• My choice is what I choose to be.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Choice
  • To Be

• As a director, I hoped that I was able to help the actors by giving them the space and the respect they need and the trust. I gave them what I always felt I needed when I was working.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Help
  • Giving
  • Respect

• I'm shy to call myself a director still. When someone says, 'What do you do for a living?' I don't know if I've earned that.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Knows
  • Stills
  • Ifs

• I'm so consistent that my director's cuts are usually 20-25 minutes longer than the released version of the movies.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Cutting
  • Directors
  • Minutes

• It doesn't matter if you work with an Oscar winner or if you work with an unknown actor. There is always a collaboration between the director and the actors, and you always have to listen as the actors have to listen to you as a director.

  

  Baran Odar
  • Work
  • Actors
  • Unknown

• Every single time when you act in a film, and there's a different director, which of course as actors we're used to experiencing that's what we do, it's a different experience.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Time
  • Different
  • Experience

• I love supporting emerging voices, and new writers and directors. I love engaging an audience in a way that doesn't have to involve me, personally, and yet still generates an experience for groups of people.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • People
  • Experience
  • Voice

• When I think back on it, of course I got lucky and got great directors and good breaks but all that was the physical part. But what made me a star was that I could take a chance and not have anything to worry about in terms of losing.

  

  Shah Rukh Khan
  • Part
  • Directors
  • Physical

• I just think there are a lot of celebrities who don't feel that they have a voice. A lot of actors come from a place of fear, and that's just a general statement about actors. You're terrified the casting director won't like you, you're terrified the producer won't like you, you're terrified the director won't like you, and on and on.

  

  George Clooney
  • Actors
  • Directors
  • Producers

• It's possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can't make a good movie from a bad script.

  

  George Clooney
  • Movie
  • Directors
  • Scripts

• I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director.

  

  William Shatner
  • Directors
  • Comedian
  • Performers

• I've imparted that philosophy to the writers, but some of them look stuff up while some don't. Same with the editors, directors and actors. To each their own.

  

  Vince Gilligan
  • Actors
  • Philosophy
  • Directors

• The director's very important to me, particularly when the director has a recognizable style.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Important
  • Style
  • Directors

• David Mamet we all know is a great screenplay writer and playwright and a great director. If you like him, you like him. If you hate him, you really hate him. He's someone who's into controversy, you know what I mean? That's David Mamet.

  

  Tom Hardy
  • Hate
  • Mean
  • Directors

• I have a way of filming things and staging them and designing sets. There were times when I thought I should change my approach, but in fact, this is what I like to do. It's sort of like my handwriting as a movie director. And somewhere along the way, I think I've made the decision: I'm going to write in my own handwriting.

  

  Wes Anderson
  • Writing
  • Decision
  • Design

• The whole world of Game of Thrones was realized with such detail, with directors and writers who really geeked out and really loved all the little bits of it.

  

  Harry Lloyd
  • Directors
  • Writers
  • Detail

• A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.

  

  Sidney Sheldon
  • God
  • To Be
  • Paper

• Do you have any idea how hard it is to tail an eighty year-old woman Its hard. Really hard. Really...slow. -Grabrielle

  

  Ally Carter
  • Woman
  • Idea
  • Tail

• When you’re older, you will realise the only thing that matters, the only thing, is that you had courage and honour. Lose those things and you won’t die any quicker, but you’ll be less than the dirt on our boots. You’ll still be dust, but you’ll have wasted your short time in the light.

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Courage
  • Matters
  • Older

• Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Directors
  • To Be
  • Pushed Up