Director Quotes
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I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.
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Being an actor really, really strengthens me as a director. There's just a certain type of understanding that comes from having been there and knowing how much is really being asked of actors that helps me.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
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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 met my agent through a casting director here in Wilmington after I auditioned for a Disney movie.
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I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.
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I randomly went to a casting session in my hometown in North Carolina, and the casting director introduced me to my manager. I really lucked into it!
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When I do any stand-up, you're the writer, director, and producer. You're alone.
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I love animals. With animals you never know what you're getting. Everybody says don't mess with animals and little kids in movies but those are the funniest things because you can't be in control. I like to lose control as a director.
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I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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That was me under the bath and the water being held down. The director wanted it to look as real as possible so he told Keanu, in front of me, don't go easy on her. So it was scary.
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Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.
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On the clothes front, I have a designer who sits with the director for each film to chalk out a look for me based on the script.
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Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.
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Snow Cake is a lovely film. Really proud of that. We shot it in 21 days. I thought Sigourney was amazing in it. And very, very accurate. I think there was some element that thought she had pushed it too far. But not at all when you do the amount of homework she had done and spent the amount of time she did with adult autistics. She was right on the money. And I think Marc Evans is a terrific director. He's a sweet, open, honest man and a really good director of actors.
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I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director.
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I'm such a fan of Daniel Waters, who wrote the script, and also Mark Waters, his brother, who directed. 'Vampire Academy' has, I think, an iconic director.
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I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.
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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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The problem with independent films is that they can be hit or miss. I've seen scripts that have blown me away. But there have to be all the right ingredients in place to make them work: the director, cast, publicity, distribution.
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It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.
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A lot of the stuff that's happening now, I can trace back to 'Death of a Salesman.' Francine Maisler, the casting director, saw 'Death of a Salesman' and called me in for 'Unbroken.' The casting director of 'Normal Heart' had seen 'Salesman' too. I look back on it now, and it's like one thing led to another; it was a chain reaction.
