Director Quotes
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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I love Sam Mendes. He's a fantastic director.
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It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'
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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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I was definitely incredibly close to my dad, in a way that was all-encompassing. I am close to my mum, too, but there were areas that she and I did not share. So his loss to me was huge, personally and professionally. He believed in me, not just as a father, but as a director, and that always meant a lot.
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Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
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I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time.
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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me. So when David Fincher comes along and wants to direct 'The Social Network,' when Bennett Miller comes along and wants to direct 'Moneyball,' or when Danny Boyle wants to direct 'Jobs'? Hallelujah. I want them directing it.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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I got to work with legendary director Garry Marshall.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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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 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 think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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Any director who's also acted understands the fact that every person has a different process and has to be approached differently.
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I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.
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What goes on between the actor and director is sacred.
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As a director, you're looking for ways to tell the story with the whole image and not primarily dialogue.
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I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes.
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My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
