Directors Quotes - Page 29

• OSS 117 and maybe Un Balcon Sur La Mer directed by Nicole Garcia. It's a typical French movie with typical French themes with French actors, a French director.

  Jean Dujardin

  Typical, Actors, French Movies

  Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 23, 2011.

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• American Graffiti was the first movie where the director let me have any input. It was the first time anyone ever listened to me. George thought my character should have a crew cut, but I wasn't happy with that idea. I'd always had pretty long hair back then - in college, particularly - so I told George my character should wear a cowboy hat. George thought about it and he remembered a bunch of guys from Modesto, California, who cruised around, like my character, and wore cowboy hats, so it turned out that it actually fit the movie.

  Harrison Ford

  Character, Cutting, Cowboy

  "Star Wars Archive: Harrison Ford, Solo Artist". Interview with William Thomas, www.empireonline.com. June, 2002.

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• The weird thing is that, with actors, filmmakers and directors, it doesn't really matter if it's Robert Downey Jr., who's one of the biggest stars in the world, when you start to work, he's a hardworking actor. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter who's a big star and who's an unknown actor from wherever. It's all about the work you do.

  Noomi Rapace

  Stars, The End Of The Day, Matter

  Source: collider.com

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• Some directors can tell stories and it becomes very intimate and small, and it's almost like a secret. Some directors have the gift of finding a way to show it and tell the story, in a way that brings in the audience.

  Noomi Rapace

  Secret, Stories, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• For some directors, I'm the actor from hell.

  Harrison Ford

  Actors, Hell

  "Star Wars Archive: Harrison Ford, Solo Artist". Interview with William Thomas, www.empireonline.com. June, 2002.

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• For me, it's important that a movie is the congregate of all art forms, from writing to art composition to music to performing. Trying to keep a balance of all those is what I think a director's job is.

  Mick Garris

  Art, Jobs, Writing

  Source: collider.com

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• I think there's a perception of me that I'm the dark lord of all that is scary and gory, but that's completely false. I love musicals. My house is very bright and lit. It's not what people would really expect from a Saw director, but I think that's what allows me to do the things that I do.

  Darren Lynn Bousman

  Dark, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't think people realizemilie-autumn-devils-carnivale that, once you turn your director's cut in, it's no longer yours.

  Darren Lynn Bousman

  Autumn, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Every director is different, but the insights from new people on set give you a different opinion and perspective, which is always embraced, in some way.

  Dominique McElligott

  People, Giving, Perspective

  Source: collider.com

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• My husband is a director, and I understand what it takes to direct. It's a skill set where you have to be able to talk to actors and understand them, and I don't. It's a very different way of being in the world, and I much prefer writing and producing.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Husband, Writing, Skills

  "Screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg Talks THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 1, EARTHSEED and NBC’s AFTERTHOUGHT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 15, 2011.

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• The director of the [Grimm] pilot called me in. I had worked on a pilot called Love Bites with him, and the producers I worked on with on Hot In Cleveland, so they knew me from comedic worlds, and they wanted someone who could be light too. Because it is pretty heavy.

  David Giuntoli

  Light, World, Pilots

  Source: collider.com

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• When you're a producer or director, there's so much sweat that goes into any given project.

  Joseph McGinty Nichol

  Sweat, Projects, Given

  Source: collider.com

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• Actors can make five movies a year. A director can make one movie, every two years. It's a whole different level of commitment and of sweat equity, and therefore there's a direct correlation to passion.

  Joseph McGinty Nichol

  Commitment, Passion, Sweat

  Source: collider.com

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• Actors can become very involved in a role, but for a director or producer, that's your life for many years.

  Joseph McGinty Nichol

  Years, Roles, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I remember in the Carpenter version, you got acquainted with the characters and really knew them. It was a real character piece. Each actor was serviced in the movie, and we tried to do that in this movie as well. I like the fact that there was a European, first-time director. I'd known of him because I'm from Europe. I knew him as a commercial director and thought one of his commercials was great. I thought it was an interesting take on such a big-budget cult classic.

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

  Real, Character, Europe

  Source: collider.com

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• And then, with a European director and Norwegian actors speaking in Norwegian, it was going to be very interesting. So, whatever initial trepidation or fear I may have had was alleviated by those factors. I just said, "This is something to get on board with."

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

  Interesting, Boards, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• f you're making the scene as a director, you're looking for alternatives, once you've got to that place that's very much in Rowan's [Atkins] head, to see if you can take it further, in some places. Sometimes you do absolutely know there's something there. You just feel it in your bones.

  Oliver Parker

  Alternatives, Sometimes, Bones

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a huge fan of director's cuts or reassemblies if they're good, but I remember being really excited about the restored version of Apocalypse Now, and then I preferred the original film. Kingdom of Heaven as a director's cut is the real picture, but in fact someone recently told me that there was another cut, the original first cut, which he said was just extraordinary. I've never seen it - and of course now I want to, if it exists, and so would everybody else.

  William Monahan

  Real, Cutting, Heaven

  Source: collider.com

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• I have no reason as a director to have films go up in versions that I don't like. My only experience of film after ten years is honestly that if a picture doesn't get second-guessed you're looking at four Oscars, and if a picture does get second-guessed, you're not. I've got an advanced degree in that lesson.

  William Monahan

  Years, Degrees, Doe

  Source: collider.com

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• Yeah, well I can't see a situation where I wouldn't at least re-write as a director something I was going to direct. At the moment, I wouldn't direct anything that I hadn't written. I can now say, as everybody else says, that it all depends on the script.

  William Monahan

  Writing, Scripts, Moments

  Source: collider.com

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• TV and film are very different media with different requirements. In a TV show, you have actors and fellow writers and directors, who are interpreting your work. With a novel, you only have ink, words and your reader.

  Howard Gordon

  Media, Tv Shows, Ink

  Source: collider.com

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• It's not often that you get a director, singing the praises of his executives.

  Nick Willing

  Singing, Praise, Executives

  Source: collider.com

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• Russian directors, we are shooting the same streets. The same things. Tom Jacobson has a fresh eye and found very interesting and very cool locations and angles and characters.

  Timur Bekmambetov

  Character, Eye, Interesting

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• The work I'm doing on the screen differs from that of anyone else. My comedy is of a peculiar nature...no writers have been developed along the lines of my type of comedy and this is why I sometimes have differences with writers, supervisors and directors alike.

  W. C. Fields

  Differences, Peculiar, Lines

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• I have always firmly believed that every director should be judged solely by their work, and not by their work based on their gender. Hollywood is supposedly a community of forward thinking and progressive people yet this horrific situation for women directors persists. Gender discrimination stigmatizes our entire industry. Change is essential. Gender neutral hiring is essential.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Thinking, Gender Gap, People

  "Kathryn Bigelow: We Must End Gender Discrimination in Hollywood". time.com. May 12, 2015.

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