Directors Quotes
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I like directors that give their composer a juicy role in their films. Some films have a small, minor role for music, some have a larger role.
Cliff Martinez
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Usually when you meet with a director, just meeting them after you've seen something you're interested in, they say, "Oh I'd love to work together," and sometimes you never hear from them again.
Willem Dafoe
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I guess I'm not jaded because I still believe that there are good films out there, and there are great directors, and there are great writers. It just takes a little bit more perseverance and a little bit more time to find [them].
Elijah Wood
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Unfortunately they're practically all dead. And many were my closest associates: friends, co-directors, whatever you want to say - my partners in crime.
William Eggleston
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Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.
Tony Gilroy
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Now there are three guys who directed "Twilight" films that had a gross of a gazillion dollars. All those "Hunger Games" guys, the "Divergent" guys. All those people. When they are looking for the next big director, they see they have a track record. So there's 20 people that spun off of "Twilight" that have more qualifications than any woman.
Catherine Hardwicke
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I think all directors should be animators.
Steven Spielberg
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I love the work, I love being in front of the camera and working with actors and directors and creating something. For me, it's like learning everyday.
Estella Warren
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It wouldn't have existed without France, and it's a French initiative. As a filmmaker, I owe everything to France - I got accepted at a French film school that takes six directors a year. Once you're in, you make films under the eye of people in the industry. You grow up in front of their eyes.
Deniz Gamze Erguven
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I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.
Carroll O'Connor
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I've done so many movies with first-time directors, and honestly I just go with gut instinct. People that usually can tell me a good story, and talk to me about why the movie is the movie they want to make. I just go with my gut.
Neal H. Moritz
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My aunt put my cousins into a childrens modelling agency, then my mum did it with us. Me and my sister got a few TV adverts, which was good pocket money. A director saw photos of me and asked me to do a short film.
Sullivan Stapleton
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The whole world of Game of Thrones was realized with such detail, with directors and writers who really geeked out and really loved all the little bits of it.
Harry Lloyd
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When a director narrates a character, I find it normal to ask questions about the character's background, mood swings, eccentricities, behaviour... I do this to make my performance relatable. Directors who don't know their characters well find it difficult to answer these questions and, hence, find me annoying.
Radha Ravi
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My whole family is very artistic - my uncles are all actors and theatre directors.
Morena Baccarin
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I can count on one hand the directors who actually directed me.
Eric Stoltz
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I had no plans to be a director.
Mike Figgis
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I do feel, like everyone, there's not enough female directors out there, there's not enough female producers, and would like to see more people get more opportunity, more opportunity for roles for women.
Barbara Crampton
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I've certainly worked with really great directors who haven't acted.
Steve Buscemi
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I don't want to do just "Hello, goodbye," only for very, very good directors like Jonathan Demme, who asked me to sing this tango in his film The Truth About Charlie (2002). If not, I really take my choices, because I'm too old to say yes to everything, and also, I've done too many good things to go do whatever now.
Anna Karina
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I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision or a watered-down communal one?
Nick Cave
The Birthday Party
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I like working with directors because I'm really opinionated about what things work and may not work, what audiences like and may not like, (not really) but I do have opinions about things. I like to be able to say them and then have them acted on. The director who responds to me like that, always gets my appreciation. I do appreciate it. What I find is the best directors, no matter what kind of name they have, are like that.
Morgan Freeman