Director Quotes
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I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.
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That's how I am as a director - if somebody does a really good take, I can't help it, I'm not even aware of it. Actors really, really need positive reinforcement.
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I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director.
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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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Sucking up to a director means you are unsure of your talents. I'm not.
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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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Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.
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Do you know what I'm working on now? My first feature as a director.
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It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.
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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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One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what one has experienced and understood about the human condition as it relates to the role one has been hired to portray.
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After I completed the project for BCG, I was offered the position of Director of Marketing for Ozon.ru.
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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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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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A lecturer once told me I could never be a director. I was 16. I believed him.
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Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.
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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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Jane Campion is a tough director.
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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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It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors.
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I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a 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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I'm a believer in trusting the director.
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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.
