Directors Quotes - Page 3

• Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often.

  Catherine Deneuve

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• A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

  Billy Wilder

  Film Directing, Sycophants, Filmmaker

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• The director is the ultimate creative arbiter of what's going to happen. And as a director myself, you really appreciate collaborating with people who are trying to help you find what you need and what you want.

  Roman Coppola

  People, Appreciate, Creative

  "Roman Coppola Is Young At Heart". Interview with Durga Chew-Bose, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 1, 2012.

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  Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

  Henry Winkler

  Love, Funny, Relationship

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• In a collaborative environment directors hire actors because they want their input, not just their bodies.

  Kelly Lynch

  Actors, Body, Want

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• The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.

  Taylor Hackford

  Jobs, Drawing, Giving

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has.

  John Frankenheimer

  Experts, Found

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• I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.

  Gene Tierney

  Men, Emotional, Brilliant

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• Directors are never in short supply of girlfriends.

  Bob Fosse

  Girlfriend

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• I'm not a director that's about precision and control and perfection, I'm about creating an atmosphere that's organic and interesting and then letting people loose, and for that there's no greater actor or performer than children. Animals are maybe a close runner-up.

  David Gordon Green

  Children, Animal, Creating

  Source: collider.com

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• I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.

  James Cameron

  Filmmaker, Ifs

  James Cameron, Brent Dunham (2012). “James Cameron: Interviews”, p.114, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

  Oliver Stone

  Looks, Process, Thought Process

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• I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.

  Alfonso Ribeiro

  Creative, Paper, Process

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• In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Color, Raw Materials, Hue

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• In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors.

  John Turturro

  Character, Scary, Firsts

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• Directors are not worried about casting beautiful women, but they are not sure that they want to cast great-looking men. My looks have prevented people from seeing my work objectively.

  Rob Lowe

  Beautiful, Men, People

  "Lowe profile" by Jessica Berens, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2001.

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• Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired?

  Mackenzie Astin

  Grey

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.

  Rebecca De Mornay

  Singers, Riders, Pops

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• I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time.

  Sam Mendes

  Believe, Firsts, Facts

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• A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.

  Elia Kazan

  Motivational, Not Sure, Good Directors

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• As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.

  Stanley Tucci

  Acting, Watches, Actors

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• Do whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director.

  Dennis Farina

  Stuff

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• In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression.

  Bela Lugosi

  Moving, Expression, Actors

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• If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance.

  Trevor Nunn

  Creativity, Self Confidence, Arrogance

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• Time management is a big part of the director's job.

  Debbie Allen

  Jobs, Time Management, Bigs

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