Directors Quotes

• A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

  James Allen

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  James Allen (2015). “As a Man Thinketh”, p.7, BookRix

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• From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.

  Donnie Yen

  Actors, Elements, Dynamics

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• I found it to be more challenging to be in a huge effects movie, because a lot of the things aren't there.You have to trust the director and react to nothing.

  Katie Holmes

  Challenges, Found, Huge

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• I think that I'm a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I'll tell you right now that I'm gonna think I'm a better political director than my political director.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Issues, Political

  "Battle Plans" by Ryan Lizza, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 2008.

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• As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director.

  Joan Chen

  Acting, Want, Actresses

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Work is fun to me. All those years of being an actor and a director and not being able to get a job - two weeks is too long to not know what my next job will be.

  Dennis Hopper

  Jobs, Fun, Years

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.

  Gary Sinise

  Frustrated, Actors

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• A film is a director's vision... there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have.

  Natasha Richardson

  Vision, Actors, Input

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• On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.

  Greta Scacchi

  Running, Night, Keys

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• I was very fortunate in having David Fincher, the director come to me. Now I've seen the finished product, I feel that every bit of the nine months we spent on the film was worth it.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Nine, Months, Film

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• The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting

  Brian De Palma

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mistake

  Brian De Palma, Laurence F. Knapp (2003). “Interviews”, p.60, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I was too dumb to know Opie was going to grow up to be a great Director, if so, boy, I would certainly have become his best friend.

  George Lindsey

  Friendship, Growing Up, Stupid

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• I like working as a director most.

  Stephen Chow

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• So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.

  Michel Legrand

  Writing, Two, Three

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• My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.

  Yahoo Serious

  Art, Stupid, School

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I hate to sound like Julie the cruise director but it's people that I think about all the time.

  Bruce McCulloch

  Hate, Thinking, People

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• I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.

  John Boorman

  Japan, Numbers, Assistants

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• A good script and a good brief from the director is enough to let me know what is expected of me.

  Sanjay Dutt

  Scripts, Enough, Let Me

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• Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director.

  John Milius

  Quality, Fields, Egotism

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 7, 2003.

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• I was six years old when I saw my first Godard movie, eight when I first experienced Bergman. I wanted to be a director when I was fourteen.

  Julie Delpy

  Eight, Years, Six Year Olds

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• I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.

  Carter Burwell

  Writing, Enjoy, Please

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• I directed before I was even in television; I directed in the theatre for seven years, so that was my trade anyway. But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.

  Mel Smith

  Years, Theatre, Television

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• The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was told I was an actor

  Johnny Weissmuller

  Next Day, Tree, Actors

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• You have to write a good score that you feel good about. At least, you're supposed to. But, if the director hates it, it ain't going to be in the movie!

  Danny Elfman

  Hate, Writing, Feel Good

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• I'd worked in Clockwork Orange with Stanley Kubrick and since Stanley was such a prestigious director this opened all sorts of doors for me - one of them being Star Wars.

  David Prowse

  Stars, War, Doors

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