Directors Quotes - Page 27

• Joe Mantello is the uber director. I wrote him a card tonight saying basically, 'Will you adopt me?'

  Jeffrey Tambor

  Uber, Cards, Tonight

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• It's turned into a world of amateurs. There are amateur actors making millions of dollars, amateur cinematographers, amateur directors... Jesus, these amateur directors can get deals for anything. Another comic book? Oh, very good.

  James Coburn

  Jesus, Book, Dollars

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• Somebody said that I'm a bit like a sponge, grabbing things here and there, soaking stuff up. [As a director] you have to be, really.

  Adrian Lyne

  Here And There, Stuff, Sponges

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• Certain directors are known for a certain kind of beauty; it becomes their signature.

  Tom Ford

  Signatures, Kind, Certain

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• As a designer, design director or any creative person, you have to hire great people, support them and make them feel comfortable so they can contribute and give you their best.

  Tom Ford

  People, Giving, Creative

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• I believe that the officers, and, especially, the directors, of corporations should be held personally responsible when any corporation breaks the law.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Believe, Law, Corporations

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “The New Nationalism”, Best Books on

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• I deliberately look for colorful people. They're very right for theatre. Theatre has to be theatrical. If you can get color into the accountant, you've got something. Write the whole thing first and then say he's an accountant. That's a very wacky accountant, but so what? Theatricality feeds and challenges the actor, the director, and the designers.

  Lanford Wilson

  Writing, Color, People

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• Sometimes I get insecure about being a real director because I look at the great directors, and they have such command. But maybe that keeps me critical of myself. Maybe it keeps me moving forward.

  Ben Affleck

  Real, Moving, Insecure

  "This Is What 40 Looks Like" by Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 9, 2012.

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• When I made 'Real Steel,' the director actually had the robots in the monitor, so he knew where everything was. So technically, there's been advancements. But at the end of the day, movies are about story and characters, so all the other stuff is great, but unless you have those two elements, then you've got nothing.

  Hugh Jackman

  Real, Character, Two

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• I've always been quite mature because of the way my parents brought me up. They were very good at talking to me like a person rather than a baby, and I was around so many actors and directors from such a young age because my dad is an actor. I was more comfortable with adults rather than actually being an adult child.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Baby, Dad, Children

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• You don't pick black actors or black directors because they are black. You pick them because they are good. If you lend somebody 50 million dollars you want you're money back. You don't care if they are oppressed. You just want you're money back.

  Denzel Washington

  Black, Dollars, Actors

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• You watch him playing Jack Sparrow, and he's loving it, and he's loving being in that world. He's still excited by it. Sometimes, he'll even say, 'Was that OK?' And I'm thinking, 'You're Johnny Depp man, you know that's OK!' But he doesn't. He's still going to [director] Gore [Verbinski] and asking for help. It's a privilege to see the human side of Johnny. It's really exciting.

  Keira Knightley

  Men, Thinking, Asking For Help

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• Where else do you find great directors? Acting is one of the places.

  Liev Schreiber

  Acting

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. May 30, 2002.

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• When you're a first time director, you're often considered what's called a "deadly attachment" in the eyes of financiers, because they're trusting you with a lot of money to bring something home, to get great performances, to not have a nervous breakdown in the process.

  John Krokidas

  Eye, Home, Attachment

  Source: collider.com

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• Noah Baumbach does more takes than any director I've ever worked with. He runs a very quiet set and he runs a very hard working set. He has such an intense level of dedication to what's happening that he cultivates a group of people around him who have an equal level of dedication. Nobody asks, "When is lunch?" That's just not part of our sets. It's complete immersion. He has a 'no cell phone' rule. Nobody checks their cell phone. Nobody reads on set. It's like, "If you're there, you're there. If you're not on board with that, don't work on this movie."

  Greta Gerwig

  Running, Hard Work, Dedication

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• The way television works is that directors come in and out, and they're not there all the time, following every character through every scene. They're vagabonds who go from one show to another.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

  Character, Vagabonds, Television

  "Creator/Showrunner Amy Sherman-Palladino Talks BUNHEADS, Casting the Highly Specific Characters, Knowing Her Endgame, Writing Movies and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 4, 2013.

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• It helps, if you've directed, to be able to write a script that is director-friendly. You're really telling them [directors], "This is how it works on this show." It takes some of the guesswork out of it.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

  Writing, Work Out, Friendly

  "Creator/Showrunner Amy Sherman-Palladino Talks BUNHEADS, Casting the Highly Specific Characters, Knowing Her Endgame, Writing Movies and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 4, 2013.

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• If you are a writer/director, the [movie] characters are a part of yourself.

  Juan Diego Solanas

  Character, Ifs

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• Every time I act in something, I learn something about what the director is doing. One feeds the other.

  Griffin Dunne

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• The hardest thing, as a producer, is to find a director who does the picture for all the right reasons, and not just because they know it's successful or that they can do a good job, but in their bones, they love that genre.

  Lorenzo di Bonaventura

  Jobs, Successful, Doe

  Source: collider.com

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• It's great the way the old-time directors used to manipulate the hell out of you. You see someone dying and all of a sudden a ghost would come out and they go walking hand in hand up the stairway.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Hands, Walking Hand In Hand, Dying

  "New again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 2, 2015.

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• Most of the films I myself like don't do very well. Every director, he has a choice, whether to go for subtlety and try to articulate every minute detail, or to go for the broad strokes and hope that the people will fill in between the lines. I tend to go for the broader strokes.

  Sylvester Stallone

  People, Choices, Trying

  "New again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 2, 2015.

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• When I'm tired of taking on too much responsibility as a director I then look for an acting gig.

  Lake Bell

  Tired, Responsibility, Acting

  "Actress Lake Bell, first female voice of Apple ads, is taking over Hollywood one project at a time". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, uk.businessinsider.com. November 30, 2015.

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• To go into more specifics regarding actors, whether they're from Korea or the U.S., all actors know if they are loved by the director. When they feel that love from the director, they respond by giving a great performance on camera. Also, everyone on set - the crew, the actors - they were aware of the film's message and its broad theme, so these big issues were never discussed on set.

  Kim Jee-woon

  Issues, Korea, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• Interestingly, my first director's cut was an hour and forty-one minutes. Then, the studio actually wanted to add more to the story, so we went all the way up to an hour and forty-seven minutes. After that, I made some additional cuts and now we are where we are.

  Kim Jee-woon

  Cutting, Way, Firsts

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