Directors Quotes - Page 20

• As an actor and director, you have to take risks, even though I don't like saying that word. You can make a mistake.

  Jean Dujardin

  Mistake, Risk, Actors

  Interview with Anthony D’Alessandro, deadline.com. February 9, 2012.

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• In many cases for an actor it's a comfortable position to be in. But it's harder to fail as a director.

  Jean Dujardin

  Actors, Failing, Cases

  Interview with Anthony D’Alessandro, deadline.com. February 9, 2012.

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• I wanted to be in film. I wanted to be a film student, possibly be a director or cinematographer, not an actor. That was my goal. I didn't believe I had the physical beauty that I'd seen projected and advertised in movies, in theater. It just wasn't for me.

  Pam Grier

  Believe, Goal, Actors

  "Actress Pam Grier". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 13, 2010.

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• I don't want to infantilize the actor; I want to empower the actor. Actors can be many things, but all of the really good ones are really great storytellers, and I'm interested in that. If you're not interested in that as a director then you better be Stanley Kurbrick.

  Paul Bettany

  Empowering, Actors, Want

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I wanted to know as the director how the actors wanted to tell this story I wanted to know what they thought.

  Paul Bettany

  Stories, Actors, Wanted

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• To the documentary director the appearance of things and people is only superficial. It is the meaning behind the thing and the significance underlying the person that occupy his attention... Documentary approach to cinema differs from that of story-film not in its disregard for craftsman-ship, but in the purpose to which that craftsmanship is put. Documentary is a trade just as carpentry or pot-making. The pot-maker makes pots, and the documentarian documentaries.

  Paul Rotha

  People, Cinema, Attention

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• We're still at a point where women [directors] aren't allowed to be mad visionaries. We have to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that we're responsible, that we can handle it, that we've got all our ducks in a row . . . most women who direct always come in on budget, always come in on schedule, and if they were wild and irresponsible it would not be put down to brilliance, but to a general flakiness.

  Sarah Polley

  Ducks, Mad, Doubt

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• I always wanted to direct. Directing is a lot more of a commitment though, a lot more time. I like directors who do very few takes, they know what they want.

  Robert De Niro

  Commitment, Want, More Time

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I recognize the amount of time that it takes as a director. I made the choice to stop taking roles outside of L.A. because I didn't want to miss any of my child's life.

  Regina King

  Children, Choices, Missing

  "Regina King’s Primetime". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 13, 2015.

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• It's always different, depending on the writer and the director. A collaborator like Graham Reznick delivers a fully finished piece, perfected in every way. Other writers direct the recording session and then leave quite a bit of the work to us.

  Larry Fessenden

  Different, Pieces, Way

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• When I write a film, the film gets handed off to a producer and a director and I go my merry way. With television, I am expected and contracted to stick around and actually produce what I've written.

  Marc Guggenheim

  Writing, Television, Way

  "'Arrow's Marc Guggenheim Talks New Comic 'Jonas Quantum,' DC Crossovers & More". Interview with Andrew Dyce, screenrant.com. May 13, 2015.

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• I think the financial restraint really pushes me as a director to be more creative with the way I shoot the film.

  James Wan

  Thinking, Creative, Way

  "Interview: James Wan, Leigh Whannell Talk ‘Insidious’ & Classic Horror". Interview with Rob Frappier, screenrant.com. March 13, 2011.

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• Your actors need to trust you as a director, but normally, I think you just need to have an open communication between the actors and the director. I think the director needs to really paint his or her vision to the cast and let them know the kind of mood that he or she is making. I think that's very important.

  James Wan

  Communication, Thinking, Vision

  "Interview: James Wan, Leigh Whannell Talk ‘Insidious’ & Classic Horror". Interview with Rob Frappier, screenrant.com. March 13, 2011.

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• You want the film to be critically successful - you certainly want the film to be financially successful so that you can...well, because that's how movies like this are made, you know, they need to make money. But as a director, you can only make the movie that you want to make.

  Joseph Kosinski

  Successful, Want, Needs

  Source: screenrant.com

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• Why would people have confidence in a female director when there are so few?

  Jennifer Lawrence

  People, Female, Have Confidence

  "Jennifer Lawrence, Cate Blanchett and Six More Top Actresses on Pay Gap, Sex Scenes and the Price of Speaking Frankly: 'There Is Always a Backlash'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 18, 2015.

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• A director once said, when I was complaining about something or other, "I agree, it is terrible. The worst thing you can do to an actor is give him a job." That shut me up and broke off a big hunk of my actor's cynical armor.

  Jeff Raz

  Jobs, Giving, Cynical

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• I've wanted to make movies for so long. I learned most of what I know from director commentaries and behind the scenes featurettes and criterions.

  Todd Strauss-Schulson

  Long, Behind The Scenes, Wanted

  The MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. October 5, 2017.

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• When I read it and I realized that Michael Landon, Jr. was the director of it, I thought...this could work out well. This is not gonna be a hard stretch for me to get the character figured out at all. Outside of the billion dollars, I was living his life...chasing money down. It was a lot of fun.

  Drew Waters

  Fun, Character, Work Out

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• The relationship with actor and director is probably closer to theater, in that, when we record the dialogue, there is very little in the way of the creative collaboration - no cameras, lighting or even locations. Then, once we record, the post process is very similar to the post flow in filmmaking - editing, sound design, mixing, etc. At the end of the day, it's all about storytelling and honing in on a tone by developing a rhythm and structure that suits the storytelling.

  Glenn McQuaid

  Editing, Creative Collaboration, Design

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• It's depend of the communication, I think it's very important to let the director make his own vision of the character, not making a studio movie. Look the Dark Knight it's totally the vision of Nolan.

  Xavier Gens

  Communication, Character, Dark

  "‘Hitman’ Director Sets His Sights on Daredevil". Marvel Movies! Interview, screenrant.com. April 30, 2009.

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• As an actor, I know immediately if I'm saying a word that doesn't feel right coming out of my mouth, and I know how to change it. But as a director watching something, or even as a writer reading a script, sometimes it's not always clear what needs to be fixed.

  Scott Foley

  Reading, Needs, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• To suddenly be working with one of the top-10 directors in the world, plus the film was in China, I almost blurted out, "How much do I have to pay?" It was just like a dream come true. That was an amazing experience.

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Dream, Top 10, World

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Playing Japanese characters and being in environments that are Japanese, like a character's apartment or whatever, if you have directors or art directors who just don't know what' s what with Japanese culture, then pretty soon something's just passed through. I've been through many times where I've pointed out the incorrectness of so much of what's been done to a set.

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Art, Character, Culture

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've always had good relationships with directors. I'm one of those people where, if there's a good idea coming from the sound guy, I'll take it. Filmmaking is a collaborative effort, whether it's a first-time director or it's Mike Nichols. I think that's the standard that the great ones set.

  Patrick Wilson

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Source: collider.com

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• To make good films, you have to have a good relationship and good collaboration as composer-director, composer-editor, composer-production designer-actor because you're working with the actors on screen.

  Howard Shore

  Editors, Good Relationship, Collaboration

  Source: collider.com

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