Directors Quotes
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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.
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No English director would've cast me as an officer, I promise you. Not one.
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So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.
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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.
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A good actor's director, first of all, is prepared, so there's not an exorbitant amount of wasted footage.
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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.
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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.
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I think since I did Monster I really started understanding how hard it is for first time directors. I think there's a lot of great stories out there, but it's high risk.
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With an inexperienced director, a lot of times the days go on to 14, 15, 16 hours. It goes horrendously overtime. And because of the lack of money, they just keep you there, regardless of the hours.
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Nobody, except Russian directors, can truly reveal all the features of the Russian soul.
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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.
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I'm lucky. I'm getting older with some directors who are getting older.
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Be what we make, and not who we are.
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I used to work for an NGO called Transitions Online, and I was their Director of New Media. I was a very idealistic fellow who thought that he could use blogs, social networks and new media to help promote democracy, human rights and freedom of expression.
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I get to play a great character while working with great actors and great directors on a great show.
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Once there are more African Americans and Asian Americans behind the scenes as producers, writers, and directors, I think more inclusive casting will happen.
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When people think of diversity, they think people of color, but it also means women, who are severely underrepresented as directors, writers and producers.
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In some way, the relationship between a director and an actor is personal.
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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.
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No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.
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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.
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The first must that any director has is to not force his public.
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I never turned down anything and never argued with any producer or director.
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I worked for a lot of directors.
