Directors Quotes
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There are directors, and I think this is true of all directors, it would be true if I was a director - If the actor didn't want to do what I was suggesting, I would let him do it his way, and then I would say to him, "Just give me one where you do what the director wants", and that, of course, is the take that's used.
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I'd worked with directors who wouldn't collaborate. Then I've also worked with directors who didn't really know what they wanted. I knew I didn't want to be either one of those guys - or girls.
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There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know.
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I am very happy that I am getting to play such layered and demanding characters. I feel blessed that directors are trusting me with such roles.
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It's possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can't make a good movie from a bad script.
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I think when you work with really wonderful directors who have a really strong vision, it lets you as an artist set the tone for your own career.
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Sometimes directors feel a script needs something, but they're not sure what it is, so they show it to a friend; if the friend is a writer, he ends up kicking around with that script for a while.
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First of all, Sam Fuller left a group of extraordinary movies that are unique, that are "Fuller-esque," as one might say, which makes them stand apart from any other director's films.
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Sometimes a director is making three films. Perhaps he is shooting a film in Madras and a film in Bombay and he can't leave Madras as some shooting has to be done, so he directs by telephone. The shooting takes place. On schedule.
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Sometimes, directors are afraid to stop shooting, because the second you stop and say, "We got it," and move on, you'll never get another chance. And they're terrified to get in the cutting room and not be happy. So they just keep shooting.
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[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.
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All of the directors I've worked with I've gotten along with very well.
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I think Van Sant is the most important American director we have. He takes the most risks. He's just pure to me.
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You really have to bring your game and know what you want to do. And then, there are the producers and the writers and the director on the other side of the glass, and what they want. You have to be malleable to what's going to work, and you have to stay in the framework of the context.
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It's an extreme to go from an artist like myself to a commercial artist with art directors looking over your shoulder, or any other knucklehead telling you what your art should look like.
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My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while framing a better shot.
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I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious.
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Most of the films are only 60% taken, rest is a director's input.
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You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.
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The performance is created by the director. The actor is the material. And I think that has to be true.
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Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.
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If a director takes the time to document - to step back to observe - I think it I more honest. Because it has to be the public that makes the conclusions and who, possibly, resolves the situation.
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I just think there are a lot of celebrities who don't feel that they have a voice. A lot of actors come from a place of fear, and that's just a general statement about actors. You're terrified the casting director won't like you, you're terrified the producer won't like you, you're terrified the director won't like you, and on and on.
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Every day is still exciting. I have like a very good system worked out with my editor. Some directors are in there every day, sitting there in the room with the editor. I lose perspective incredibly quickly, and so what I do is I watch...I come in the room and give very specific notes and then I go back to my house or in my office and I watch the dailies.
