Director Quotes
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My work as an actor is limited by the voice of the director and the writing.
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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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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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If you create a movie that is only character driven, with a weak plot, then you - as a director, you have to make sure you keep pushing the tempo.
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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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A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.
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As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate.
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There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black writer's book that everybody is going to be Black.
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Two days later, FBI director Mueller declares that another terrorist attack is 'inevitable.'
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Jane Campion is a tough director.
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I'm a believer in trusting the director.
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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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Krishna Vamsi is a very good director.
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In 1952, I was appointed Professor at the University of Bonn and Director of the Physics Institute, with very good students waiting for a thesis advisor.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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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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Every time a Hollywood director shoots a film about Africa that features a Western protagonist, I shake my head - because Africans, real people though we may be, are used as props in the West's fantasy of itself.
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The curse of comic book adaptations, when I was younger, was that the director or producer would go, "Don't worry about it, it's just a comic book."
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The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.
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First, I have to read something and find it interesting and like the story. If I don't understand it fully, but there is something in there that is interesting, then it takes a director to convince me. If he can't do that, then I don't go with it. It doesn't matter where the project comes from.
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I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.
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Were I not married to the director, I'm not sure I'd know anything about the 'Underworld' sequel.
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When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.
