Directors Quotes
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Some directors are very free and some directors are very specific. It seemed like doing a play.
Michael Pitt -
I'm lucky. I'm getting older with some directors who are getting older.
Catherine Deneuve
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I love working with actors. If you cast the right person in the right part at the right time, they make you look like a better writer and director than you really are.
Todd Solondz -
The director's job is to know what emotional statement he wants a character to convey in his scene or his line, and to exercise taste and judgment in helping the actor give his best possible performance.
Stanley Kubrick -
One thing about being a stand-up is it's a one-man show. You gotta do everything. You're the producer, writer, director, and the actor. You just gotta be out there and perform and give your all. It's such an honest form of art that it just taught me so much, and it kind of prepared me for manhood at an early age.
Nick Cannon -
I think you have to have different tools for each job - you know producer is very different from a director and very different from an actor.
Renee O'Connor -
Steven Spielberg is one of the most creative and successful directors and producers in the history of filmmaking. I have the highest respect both for him and for DreamWorks, and I look forward to many more years of continued collaboration.
Bob Wright -
As a director, you try to do things that are going to touch the human experience somehow, and emotions that mean something to people. You search for those projects and you hope to realize the potential in a project.
Catherine Hardwicke
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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.
Evgeny Morozov -
No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.
Tommy Lee Jones -
I get to play a great character while working with great actors and great directors on a great show.
Harry Hamlin -
It's not often that you get a director, singing the praises of his executives.
Nick Willing -
Be collaborative. I've had some of my best experiences with directors who were able to sit down and have a conversation and ask me what I thought.
Michael B. Jordan -
Alejandro Amenabar is a different kind of director than I lot of the directors I've asked for. He really asks you to enter his dream as opposed to, you know, a guy like Sidney Lumet or something is going to ask you to create a character almost like a documentary. He wants you to make the people really real and he's going to capture it like a documentarian.
Ethan Hawke
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The first must that any director has is to not force his public.
Sergio Leone -
Once there are more African Americans and Asian Americans behind the scenes as producers, writers, and directors, I think more inclusive casting will happen.
Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe -
Be what we make, and not who we are.
Catherine Breillat -
It was never a deliberate decision to make films about the 'woman experience'. Having said that, we are all many things - for example I'm Igbo and Nigerian, a director, a filmmaker etc., but I feel what affects me the most, especially the way people/society view or treat me, is the fact that I'm a woman, and I'm fascinated by that.
Chika Anadu -
In some way, the relationship between a director and an actor is personal.
Ryan Gosling -
I try to just make what I want to make or what I would want to see. I try not to think about the audience too much.
Sofia Coppola
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I was really lucky and blessed to have had the likes of directors such as Mani Ratnam and Rajkumar Hirani in my career.
R. Madhavan -
The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But when you're a director, you're shopping - you're picking this actor, you're picking this scene. It's like the most intense kinetic high-speed shopping of all time. You sit in a chair and it will all come rushing at you like a wind tunnel.
Tony Gilroy -
When people think of diversity, they think people of color, but it also means women, who are severely underrepresented as directors, writers and producers.
Eva Longoria -
I've turned down good directors before because I knew the part didn't speak to me and I've worked with less talented directors before because the part I had such passion for.
Ethan Hawke