Director Quotes
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Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a studio-approved director, your chances of ever making your own film again are zero. You make the films that the studio wants you to make.
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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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I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.
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I wanted to be a director and producer and writer, but in the early '40's the union wouldn't let you get through the gates. You couldn't get on a crew, or even learn to direct.
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I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.
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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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I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.
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I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director.
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Sucking up to a director means you are unsure of your talents. I'm not.
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I like to call myself the 'director of family and business affairs,' ... Your overall job is child care, housework -- and business.
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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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I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.
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A film is a director's vision... there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have.
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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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The audience has always been my best director.
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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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Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.
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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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If a director brings a guy to their movie who does improv, they've got to let him do what he does - otherwise it's like bringing Michael Jordan to your basketball team and telling him to just pass the ball and don't shoot.
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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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Krishna Vamsi is a very good director.
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The best times I had on film sets were the times the director let me express myself, but those were rare.
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I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.
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Do you know what I'm working on now? My first feature as a director.
