Directors Quotes - Page 10

• I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Thinking, Challenges, Insulting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.

  Samantha Morton

  Lazy, Honest, Being Honest

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• It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

  Jack Levine

  Art, Museums, Movement

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• I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Practice, Long, Liberty

  "Interview in Rome". Encountering Directors, (pp. 15-32), 1972.

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• On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Hands, Theatre, Cinema

  "'Why Not Have Our Own World?' Interview with Andrzej Wajda". Interview with Renata Murawska, sensesofcinema.com. July 2005.

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• I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Actors, Rely

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• I deal with guys in their 20s and early 30s who are presidents of companies, who are movie directors.

  Peter Criss

  Guy, President, Deals

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• It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors.

  Omar Epps

  Actors, Natural, Relate

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• I don't like actors who try to talk directors into making their part bigger and that's really lame.

  Franka Potente

  Trying, Lame, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Directors, like actors, get typecast.

  John Landis

  Actors, Typecasting

  IGN Interview, www.ign.com. February 11, 2004.

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• I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.

  Janine Turner

  Texas, Ballet, Boards

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Movie, Film Directing, Independent Filmmaking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Film Directing, Independent Filmmaking, Fiction

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don’t create art to get high dollar projects, I do high dollar projects so I can create more art.

  Chase Jarvis

  Art, Money, Creating

  "Chase Jarvis: How He Became The Photographer Everyone Wants To Work With". Interview with Dan Schawbel, www.forbes.com. January 27, 2014.

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• Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.

  Edmund Burke

  Political, Firsts, Conservative

  Edmund Burke (1804). “Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.53

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• Any good movie is filled with secrets. If a director doesn't leave anything unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture's unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture is good, it's mysterious, with things unsaid.

  Ernst Lubitsch

  Secret, Good Movie, Mysterious

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

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• On set I keep myself to myself; I'd rather the director speak up. I'm not gonna direct a younger actor. I think the power of example works best, actually.

  Gary Oldman

  Thinking, Example, Actors

  "Gary Oldman: 'I still don't have a publicist'" by Kate Goodacre, www.digitalspy.com. September 2, 2011.

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• The nice thing about being a director is that I can say, "I can only get into the room after the kids are at school, and I have to be back for dinner. And they're coming for lunch."

  Angelina Jolie

  Nice, School, Kids

  "Angelina Jolie Talks MALEFICENT, Getting into Character, Wearing the Costume and Horns, Directing UNBROKEN, Balacing Work and Family, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 21, 2014.

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• That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Witty, Gratitude

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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

  Stars, Sleep, Men

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.

  Ang Lee

  Writing, Kind

  "Ang Lee and James Schamus". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2000.

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• After all, at end of the day, when you're breathing your last, it's not your producer, director, or cast mates by your bedside; it's your children. Keep that in mind.

  John Ratzenberger

  Children, Breathing, Mind

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• One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.

  Jessica Savitch

  Tired, Musical, News

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.

  Gloria Swanson

  Real, Artist, Agents

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• I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan.

  Donnie Yen

  Japan, Festivals, Aikido

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