Directors Quotes
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I worked for a lot of directors.
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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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I was really lucky and blessed to have had the likes of directors such as Mani Ratnam and Rajkumar Hirani in my career.
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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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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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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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All of my favorite directors are coming from a singular perspective, and I think that's been very lacking in film.
