Directors Quotes
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It's impossible to put your finger on what that is exactly other than protecting the environment that the actors get to find the scenes and build the scenes and invest in them. I think that's key and that's what I've learned from all the great directors I've worked with.
Ewan McGregor
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The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.
Hedy Lamarr
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Directors work 10 times harder than anyone else. Get paid a quarter.
William H. Macy
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I like directors who come ready to challenge you to ask the right questions about your character, and I know that directors appreciate that in actors as well.
Joshua Henry
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Carbon trading engages finance directors. It takes the issue of energy efficiency right to the top of the company.
Elliot Morley
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To me it's like, every time I'm a director, like today, you're the captain of the ship, so you better dress like it. You're the host of the party.
Mike Mills
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I never worry about what they think about me. Because I feel so far away from what my Italian colleagues have done that I almost automatically become an isolated director.
Sergio Leone
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I'm always being told by directors that I add chemistry to scenes, so I mean how difficult could it be?
Zach Braff
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You'd put yourself in a play and get to know the system and learn how to be directed, and then you could be a director. So, I've just always done it. It was always a hobby. The funny thing was that when I started to get paid to do it as a professional job, I lost my hobby. I don't know what to do. I have to take up something else now.
David Oakes
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One thing about being a stand-up is it's a one-man show. You gotta do everything. You're the producer, writer, director, and the actor. You just gotta be out there and perform and give your all. It's such an honest form of art that it just taught me so much, and it kind of prepared me for manhood at an early age.
Nick Cannon
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An accent like mine and a face like mine, I think a lot of the time it's easy for casting directors to just stick me in as a bad boy, but 'Being Human' took a risk on me - bless 'em - and I'm not that bad boy no more.
Michael Socha
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People come up to me and say "Steve, what is film editing?" And I say "How should I know? You're the director.
Steve Martin
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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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It's hard on an actor when you have to do a scene 45 times and you know damn well that three of the angles a director is shooting will never make it into the movie.
William H. Macy
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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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Lloyd Richards is another director who was like that, who was a teacher.
Viola Davis
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As actors, we have the opportunity to work with many directors. Directors only work with themselves and other actors. They never know what it is like to work with another director. So that relationship that one has with a director is entirely always the king.
Tom Hardy
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Sometimes, the actors are thrilled to have visitors because they're just waiting most of the day. It's the directors that are a little busy.
Rebecca Eaton
