Directors Quotes
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Gotta watch out for directors.
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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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In some way, the relationship between a director and an actor is personal.
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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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It's always fun to get to do independent film because I believe that that's the life blood of film. It's about writers and directors who truly have their own vision, and that's hard.
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I have worked with a lot of great directors but my favorites are all entirely different from one another. They don't go about it the same way.
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I will always have a child in me. That is what Pete Jackson has got, what a lot of the directors I have worked with have. It is about knowing how to have fun and that is something I always want to hold on to.
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Be what we make, and not who we are.
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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.
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For some directors, I'm the actor from hell.
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I love Malcolm Lee and jumped on the opportunity to work with him as a director.
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I never turned down anything and never argued with any producer or director.
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Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.
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As a director, your job is to make sure no one for any reason is taken out of the film. Sometimes it's impossible and sometimes things don't come out the way you want them to, but I think you have to work really hard at making the world engrossing and details are a major part of that.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often.
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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.
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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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I'm lucky. I'm getting older with some directors who are getting older.
