Directors Quotes - Page 19

• Those who have themselves for a spiritual director have a fool for a spiritual director.

  Philip Neri

  Spiritual, Fool

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• While Admiral Neffenger is an impressive man, it is naive and dangerous to pretend installing one director can heal what ails TSA, the Department of Homeland Security needs to admit that it has a crisis of bureaucratic complacency - lacking an overarching vision and coherent measures of success and failure.

  Benjamin E. Sasse

  Success, Men, Tsa

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• I hope I don't just do the exact same thing my whole life. I also feel like it's really hard to make comedy. It's almost impossible for comedy filmmakers and directors to stay relevant as they get older.

  David Wain

  Comedy, Impossible, Filmmaker

  Interview with Toph Eggers, believermag.com. March 1, 2011.

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• I've come to the possible conclusion that being a comedic writer/director is like running track. You do it for a certain amount of time and then you have to stop. Or you at least have to accept that you're not going to be at the top of your game. And that's OK.

  David Wain

  Running, Games, Track

  Interview with Toph Eggers, believermag.com. March 1, 2011.

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• The main problem is that the Hollywood system has already made the film before the director shoots a single frame.

  Mike Leigh

  Hollywood, Problem, Film

  Interview with Chloe Veltman, www.believermag.com. March/April 2009.

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• It never occurred to me to be a film director, partly because I hadn't seen a single film by a female director, but I liked the idea of being a writer moving to Hollywood and being unhappy; that sounded romantic and fabulous to me.

  Mary Harron

  Moving, Ideas, Unhappy

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• The really important people in TV are not the directors; they're the writers.

  Mary Harron

  People, Important, Tvs

  Interview with Anisse Gross, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• The good part of working in TV is it's like being a studio director in old Hollywood and approaching different genres. It's a chance to try out different styles.

  Mary Harron

  Style, Trying, Hollywood

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• When I was creative director [at Estée Lauder], I was always being asked about my beauty must-haves. From there I had this fun idea to create a line of what was in my makeup bag. But I also love accessories, and people associate me with home, family, and beauty. As a girl, my favorite toy was my dollhouse; if I could still play with it now, I would! I used to love a well-arranged room: the furniture, the fabric, the lighting.

  Aerin Lauder

  Girl, Fun, Home

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• When I took the job as Estée Lauder's creative director, the first thing I did was go into the archives! I love taking our heritage and making it modern.

  Aerin Lauder

  Jobs, Creative, Archives

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Roles came to me. I was very, very lucky in that respect. Great directors, great writers, great producers - they saw something in me that they wanted for their picture or their play or whatever it was, whether it was Edward Albee or whether it was - or Peter Hall, directors. They would come to me, thank God. I was lucky. Lucky, lucky, lucky.

  Angela Lansbury

  Play, Thank God, Lucky

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Everything is the director's fault - you can quote me on that. There are no excuses.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Faults, No Excuses, Excuse

  Interview with Scott Indrisek, believermag.com. August 1, 2006.

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• I place a higher value on work ethic than talent, because, in certain areas, you just need to cast, you need to cast actors with talent, you need to hire directors with talent, but I've worked with very talented people who have a poor work ethic, and the outcome is less desirable than people who are less talented and have an incredible work ethic.

  Damon Lindelof

  People, Work Ethic, Needs

  "Damon Lindelof on Struggling With Depression and Why Knowing J.J. Abrams is 'A Bit of a Curse'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 8, 2015.

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• I fall in love with all the people I'm working with, women, directors, everybody. As actors, that's actually one of the real pleasures of the work. You have this weird opportunity to get unnaturally close to people very quickly.

  Annette Bening

  Falling In Love, Real, Opportunity

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I look at the script first and who's directing it and then talk to the director to find out what his vision of the movie is and if it matches my vision and then we go after it.

  Frank Grillo

  Vision, Looks, Scripts

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• Sometimes when you're doing a comedy, the director will yell out "alts" and then the director gets the first laugh.

  Tina Fey

  Laughing, Firsts, Comedy

  Source: collider.com

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• When I'm filming a kill scene [as a director], I just get happier and happier as we chop up body parts.

  Eli Roth

  Body, Scene

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's rare that I'm working on a movie and that's the case. My goal is the same, ultimately at a certain point you give it to the director and their vision. You're there to support that vision.

  Charles Roven

  Giving, Goal, Support

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• I came from advertising. For me it's about protecting the director's vision. That's always the goal. There's keeping things on budget and on time and dealing with selling the movie so that to me is a focus. But also it's about serving the script. We are genre filmmakers, those are the films we love to make, so my perspective is a little different.

  Charles Roven

  Goal, Perspective, Focus

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• If you're creative, they let you be the showrunner, producer. The first thing my partner and I did as producers was hire ourselves as directors - because who else would hire me?

  Garry Marshall

  Creative, Firsts, Partners

  Source: deadline.com

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• As you get older - for example, in our band we have members of our orchestra, like Carlos Enriquez and Ali Jackson and Walter Blanning. I taught them when they were in high school, and now they teach me.I'll regularly call Ali and say, "Man, can you break this rhythm down for me?" Or Carlos was actually our music director in Cuba, and he's been instrumental in a lot of my education, and I started to develop a saying with them, because they tease me all the time - you get older, you have that familiar relationship - I say, "You have to follow your young leadership, too."

  Wynton Marsalis

  School, Men, Example

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In the old days when I first was coming up, you would turn up on set in the morning with your coffee, script, and hangover and you would figure out what you were going to do with the day and how you were going to play the scenes. You would rehearse and then invite the crew in to watch the actors go through the scenes. The actors would go away to makeup and costume and the director and the DP would work out how they were going to cover what the actors had just done.

  Paul Bettany

  Morning, Hangover, Coffee

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You'll still work with some directors where that doesn't happen, and sometimes it's out of necessity because you're in a really complicated, choreographed fight scene and the whole thing is being prevised in a computer, so it's been decided months before, but I think that's sneaking into the way action scenes are shot.

  Paul Bettany

  Fighting, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I remember coming on my first set and it being a playground of things I wanted to ask questions about: cameras and lenses and what the lenses do, what's the focus puller doing and how does that work? Why is there less margin for error when there's less light? I was always asking questions and watching directors closely.

  Paul Bettany

  Asking Questions, Light, Errors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was always waiting for the secret to be handed down to me. Ron Howard asked me what I was waiting for and I went, "Ron, I'm waiting to know the secret. I keep feeling there's some sort of secret that's going to passed on from a director." He went, "Oh no. There is none. You've just got to on and do it and make mistakes and figure it out."

  Paul Bettany

  Mistake, Waiting, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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