Director Quotes
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Usually in features, I'm the lead. I consider the director the captain, but I consider myself the first mate, and it's up to me to keep in contact with the heart of the crew.
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Sucking up to a director means you are unsure of your talents. I'm not.
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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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I met my agent through a casting director here in Wilmington after I auditioned for a Disney movie.
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Out of nowhere, I became a fairly well-known director with a penchant for opera, which I did for 10 years. Then I realized I was taking myself out the theater channel, and so I re-focused on theater.
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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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Jane Campion is a tough director.
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I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
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Do you know what I'm working on now? My first feature as a director.
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I've stood up to producers before, and even a director. I saw them being abusive. A lot of people on the set are scared to say stuff when they're not being treated right.
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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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Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.
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I am not the kind of director who sits in a chair smoking a cigar talking with a microphone to 10 assistants. I need to move. To touch. To put a painting on a wall. To arrange a set.
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I've always noticed a difference between working with a director and working with a writer/director. In how much they're invested and how specific they are.
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I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two.
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What happens is things come to you - director, script - and if you respond to it, it's because it's tapping into some part of what's inside you, and different roles tap into different parts.
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I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a 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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Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.
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Krishna Vamsi is a very good director.
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A lot of times, for videogames, you get almost no time to prepare with a script. You've got a director that's going line for line, filling you in on what's happening, and some games are even less than that.
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It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.
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I never wanted to do Shakespeare; I never liked watching it, it's always frightened me, and I've never been any good at it. But I really wanted to work with the director Tim Carroll and Mark Rylance.
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It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors.
