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• Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.

  James Cameron

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friends

  James Cameron, Brent Dunham (2012). “James Cameron: Interviews”, p.117, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I believe that science is best left to scientists, that you cannot have managers or directors of science, it's got to be carried out and done by people with ideas, people with concepts, people who feel in their bones that they want to go ahead and develop this, that, or the other concept which occurs to them.

  Mark Oliphant

  Believe, Ideas, People

  "Portraits in Science". Book by Ann Moyal, 1994.

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• From my studies of genetics and neuroscience I have come to believe that people fall into four broad personality types - each influenced by a different brain chemical: I call them the Explorer, Builder, Director, and Negotiator.

  Helen Fisher

  Believe, Fall, People

  "Finding and Keeping the Love of Your Life". Article by Helen Fisher, www.oprah.com. February, 2009.

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• I mean, I understand that Scrubs was my big break, but sooner or later you have to move on. I've already directed a movie, which received very good reviews, so it just seems much more important to me now. I feel that in order to better foster my creativity as an actor and director at this point, I need to be surrounded by other talented, artistic individuals, instead of just goofy comedians.

  Zach Braff

  Moving, Creativity, Mean

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• Cinema is a director's medium, so you're saying, "What do you want?" Being an actor is about adapting - physically and emotionally. If that means you have to look great for it and they can make you look great, then thank you. And if you have to have everything washed away, then I'm willing to do that too.

  Nicole Kidman

  Thank You, Mean, Want

  "I have been through a lot. As I get older I've more to give". Interview with Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2004.

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• A good director creates an environment which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.

  Kevin Bacon

  Encouragement, Giving, Acting

  "Tim Robbins And Kevin Bacon Discuss Mystic River". Interview with Fred Topel, www.ign.com. October 10, 2013.

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• A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Movie, Order, Should Have

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Fate, Mma

  Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.108, Shambhala Publications

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• A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.

  Frank Darabont

  Stories, Way, Should

  "Prison Bound". Interview with Stephen Short, www.cnn.com.

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• A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.

  Jean Renoir

  Movie, Inspiring, Film Directing

  Quoted in Leslie Halliwell, Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion (1993)

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• The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.

  Sergei Eisenstein

  Men, Film, Should

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• I basically put myself into directors' hands and let them tell me what to do, and the more they told me what to do, the more I liked it.

  Julie Christie

  Hands

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• Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique.

  David Lean

  Jobs, Real, Technique

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• The best director is the one you don't see.

  Billy Wilder

  Inspirational, Motivational, Enemy Within

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

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• In cinema, the leading player is the director.

  Ben Kingsley

  Player, Cinema

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• A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.

  Robin Tunney

  Success, Congratulations, Film

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• Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story.

  Steven Spielberg

  Motivational, Giving, Stories

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• I'm not interested in being a celebrity; I'm interested in being a better actor and a better director.

  Denzel Washington

  Actors, Not Interested

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• When I work, I work very hard. So I look to work with people who have that level of dedication. And I depend on that from everyone. From the director to my crews that I work with.

  Tom Cruise

  Dedication, People, Looks

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• I am convinced that one should tell one's spiritual director if one has a great desire for Communion, for Our Lord does not come from Heaven every day to stay in a golden ciborium; He comes to find another heaven, the heaven of our soul in which He loves to dwell.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Spiritual, Heaven, Soul

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• An actor really suffers when the director isn't prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do it fast.

  Carol Kane

  Running, Suffering, Actors

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• As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along.

  Griffin Dunne

  Should Have, Actors, Able

  "Griffin Dunne is 'Famous'". IndieWire Interview, www.indiewire.com. August 21, 2001.

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• We all steal, but if we're smart we steal from great directors. Then, we can call it influence.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Smart, Influence, Stealing

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• A story is the relationship that you develop between who you are, or who you potentially are, and the infinite world.

  Shekhar Kapur

  Inspirational, Relationship, Motivation

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• I don't want to be a director, or to have responsibility for hundreds of people.

  Zoe Wanamaker

  Responsibility, People, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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