Directors Quotes
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The director of the FBI has been visiting Silicon Valley companies asking them to build back doors so that it can spy on what is being said online. The Department of Commerce is going after piracy. At home, the American government wants anything but Internet freedom.
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I really do like working very closely with a director and developing characters.
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In general, we like to shoot Breaking Bad like a modern day Western, and Sergio Leone is one of my all-time favorite directors.
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I've written a lot of scripts that someone else directed, and it's absolutely vital that, if I'm gonna act in it, then I have to take off the writer hat and let the director direct.
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The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra.
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When you work with directors who really love actors, who love their contribution, it feels amazing. But sometimes when you work with directors, you feel like youre in the way.
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I love directors who talk action as opposed to emotion.
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As actors, we have the opportunity to work with many directors. Directors only work with themselves and other actors. They never know what it is like to work with another director. So that relationship that one has with a director is entirely always the king.
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We've done a lot of films now about the IRA, we can move on from all that. I loved '71 because I think it showed a very honest trail and what it was actually like. It wasn't one-sided. I really respect '71 director Yann Demange for what he did. But we have done a lot of those things.
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The beautiful thing about it is that no two directors or actors work the same way. You also learn not to be afraid of discussion and conflict.
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I would say that maybe directors who act as well are easier with actors. I'm not saying that all directors have this, but sometimes you'll come across a director who sort of looks at an actor a bit like a kind of untrained horse that's been let out of the stable, like they might buck him.
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I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.
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It's just unfair that talent of color aren't given the same opportunities as white and male actors, directors, producers, writers, et cetera.
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If you're not grown up enough to understand that a trailer is not done by the director, then fine. Judge the movie from the trailer.
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There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.
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I've certainly worked with really great directors who haven't acted.
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I've worked with a lot of great directors.
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To me it's like, every time I'm a director, like today, you're the captain of the ship, so you better dress like it. You're the host of the party.
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There are so many female directors coming into the industry and a lot of them have important stories they want to tell that seem to fall a little bit more on the indie level.
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I was lucky that I was getting exposed to a lot of different kinds of films, and I was liking them all. So it seemed logical to me that you could - as in the style of the studio directors of the 30s and 40s - jump from one genre to the next, with the same satisfaction.
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I would prefer to work for directors who give me the script and written screenplay at the outset.
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But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in 'Rio Bravo'.
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Recently I have been spending my lunch with other game directors playing over local connection battle in Spirit Tracks. It is very good to do that in order to facilitate better communications between us. I have been partnering with the director of the Spirit Tracks to fight against the director of the new Wii game and yes, recently we have been winning!
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I'd say I got three or four offers for films that had female directors, so in my career I haven't had that opportunity before. That's exciting.
