Directors Quotes - Page 26

• As the director, you're meant to be critical and you are, so there are loads of things. But the thing is, the way I look at it is, to try to get some measure of success, it's dangerous to look at financial or critical success, or positive response as a measure.

  David Slade

  Trying, Way, Looks

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• One of the things about working for an old school studio like Warner Bros. is that there is an institutional culture and institutional memory, in terms of production design, camera work, and directors who understand how to do this kind of thing.

  Bruno Heller

  Memories, School, Design

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• I guess I probably see myself as a director. If I had to choose, I think that that's the aspect of the process that I'm most excited by.

  Joe Swanberg

  Thinking, Excited, Process

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• If everyone's comfortable, you can pretty much make any kind of movie that the director wants.

  Jeff Fahey

  Want, Kind, Ifs

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• A director can come from anywhere, but having a story background, if you have nothing else, is probably a good thing to have because it's really the one tool you need.

  Dan Scanlon

  Needs, Tools, Stories

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• I never thought about writing the part where the pirates get on board the ship. I wasn't interested in that. I'm not an action director. I'm sure that other guys could do it a lot better. I couldn't put my heart into it.

  Tobias Lindholm

  Writing, Heart, Guy

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• I always like playing the bad guys. They have more fun! I want a director to come up to me and say, "You can't get too weird!" That's a good thing. I loved hearing that. Let me play. I like to play around.

  James Badge Dale

  Fun, Play, Guy

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• I don't want to get locked into any one type of genre. I just want to constantly be working with amazing directors and amazing actors, and just always pushing the envelope on what I can do, as an actor.

  Nico Tortorella

  Actors, Want, Envelopes

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• For me, creatively, I'd suffocate if I played the same thing, over and over again. I want challenges. I want to sit down with a director and be like, "I've never done this before, but it's going to be exciting. It's scary, but really thrilling, so let's do it!"

  Alexander Skarsgard

  Scary, Challenges, Done

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• I realized that a lot of the great directors that I admire from [Ingmar] Bergman to [Fredrico] Fellini re always shooting, then going into the editing room, and shooting again.

  Marc Forster

  Editing, Shooting, Rooms

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• It's always interesting to see a director trying different things, and on top of it, doing it right each and almost every time.

  Vincent Cassel

  Trying Different Things, Interesting, Trying

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• I did a film called The Jesuit, which was an independent film. I did that shortly after Mistresses. I was still feeling soft and I was nursing, but it was a character I'd never played before. That was a Paul Schrader script, with an up-and-coming Mexican director, named Alfonso Ulloa. That has Tim Roth and Paz Vega in it, and I enjoyed that, as well.

  Shannyn Sossamon

  Character, Independent, Nursing

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• Unlike a lot of British directors, I hadn't done any theater. But, I had a great mentor who said, "What you're looking for is exactly the same thing you've done in your documentaries, which is moments of emotional truth.

  Susanna White

  Emotional, Mentor, Done

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• I think you have to be scared every morning that you go out to shoot, or you lose your edge. With actors, there has to be that adrenaline and you have to keep challenging yourself, and I certainly challenge myself, as a director.

  Susanna White

  Morning, Thinking, Challenges

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• I'm not one of those directors who can just kind of walk away from the edit room and come back and check in.

  Lynn Shelton

  Rooms, Kind, Checks

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• The first time I ever intersected with the quote unquote industry or Hollywood or being given a paid job as a director all came because of the reputation I got coming out of Sundance as a veteran Sundance filmmaker.

  Lynn Shelton

  Jobs, Hollywood, Firsts

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• David Petraeus, the best known American general of his generation. After commanding the American war effort in both Iraq and Afghanistan, he was serving as CIA director when he stepped down suddenly following revelations that he`d had an extramarital affair. That same investigation that turned up evidence of the affair also eventually turned up evidence that General.
  Petraeus had passed classified information to his mistress.

  Rachel Maddow

  War, Iraq, Effort

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• If mutual fund directors are independent, then I'm the lead character in the Bolshoi Ballet.

  Charlie Munger

  Character, Independent, Ballet

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• A director who gets $150,000 per year from a company and needs the money is not independent.

  Charlie Munger

  Independent, Years, Needs

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• One of the young production assistants (on 'Terminator: Salvation') stepped over to my chair and said, 'Mr. Ironside, are you any relation to the Ironside who was in 'Top Gun'?' And I said, 'I am, yes.' And she grinned and said, 'I knew it! Talent must run in your family!' And she walked away. And all of the producers and directors kind of looked at me uncertainly, and I said, 'What are you guys so uncomfortable for? That's an incredible compliment. I do look like the father of that guy, for Christ's sake!'

  Michael Ironside

  Running, Father, Gun

  Interview with Will Harris, www.bullz-eye.com. October 13, 2009.

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• A sportswriter's life means never sitting with your wife or family at the games. Still working after everyone has gone to the party... Digging beneath a coach's lies, not to forget those of athletic directors and general managers and owners of pro teams. Keeping a confidence. Risking it.

  Dan Jenkins

  Lying, Team, Party

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• What can Americans learn from the Olympics spectacle? According to the IMF, China will succeed America as the dominant economic power in the course of the next presidential term, so Howard Fineman, editorial director of the Huffington Post and MSNBC mainstay, was anxious to pick up tips. 'Brits long ago lost their empire,' he tweeted, 'but overall show us how to lose global power gracefully.' So there's that.

  Mark Steyn

  America, Long Ago, Presidential

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• To learn bad dialogue is so difficult and so boring, and to work with a stupid director who tells you to do the wrong thing, etcetera, it's just unbearable.

  Omar Sharif

  Stupid, Etcetera, Unbearable

  "Omar Sharif: knave of hearts" by Tim Dowling, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2004.

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• I want to be fulfilled creatively as an actress and get to be in roles that are meaningful and impactful. I hope the same thing for myself as a director, one day. I want to make things that have an impact on how we look at the world.

  Amandla Stenberg

  Meaningful, Impact, One Day

  "Amandla Stenberg: the new agenda" by Caroline Ryder, www.dazeddigital.com. August 11, 2015.

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• A musical is only as good as its director. The same can also be said for the CIA.

  Martin Short

  Musical, Said, Cia

  "The 58th Annual Tony Awards". TV Special, www.imdb.com. June 06, 2004.

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