Directors Quotes - Page 30

• Among today's directors I'm of course impressed by Steven Spielberg and Scorsese, and Coppola, even if he seems to have ceased making films, and Steven Soderbergh - they all have something to say, they're passionate, they have an idealistic attitude to the filmmaking process. Soderbergh's Traffic is amazing. Another great couple of examples of the strength of American cinema is American Beauty and Magnolia.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Couple, Attitude, Example

  "Sydsvenska Dagbladet", Swedish daily newspaper, May 2002.

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• Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.

  Seneca the Younger

  Teacher, Vices, Needs

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• Are you an action-oriented, take-charge person interested in exciting new challenges? As director of a major public-sector organization, you will manage a large armed division and interface with other senior executives in a team-oriented, multinational initiative in the global marketplace. Successful candidate will have above-average oral-presentation skills

  Winston Churchill

  Senior, Team, Successful

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• TV directors just aren't sexy for some reason, Although, you know, Rob and Kim [Manners] are very sexy in my eyes.

  David Duchovny

  Sexy, Eye, Tvs

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• The only episode which was completely my idea was for Mitch Pileggi, the actor who portrays Skinner, the Assistant Director of the FBI. He appears often in the series, but only for a few scenes. You know virtually nothing about him. I wanted him to have an episode that was his alone, so I wrote Avatar for him. He even has a scene that's pretty . . . hot [knowing smile]. He was very happy.

  David Duchovny

  Knowing, Ideas, Assistants

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• Paris is the playwright's delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor's city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.

  Orson Welles

  New York, Home, Cities

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• You have to be submitted for the Pulitzer, and unbeknownst to us, a choral director whom I know had submitted us.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Knows

  "Maestro of Broadway". The Academy of Achievement Interview in Los Angeles, California, www.achievement.org. July 5, 2005.

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• I love Ron Howard, he's a wonderful director, incredibly prepared. But I have to criticize my performance in that movie. It all took place in one day. My character was having a bad day, so she's having a bad day throughout the whole movie. But this was a comedy, and I think I was too serious, too dense. Yes, I think that describes my failure there.

  Glenn Close

  Character, Bad Day, Thinking

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

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• My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's terrible habit for an actor, but that's a good habit for director. So I became a director.

  David Mamet

  People, What If, Way

  "David Mamet's Conservative Conversion". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. July 08, 2011.

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• I know there were things emanating from me. I was not aware of what attracted all these directors to me.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Knows

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• I don't know if directors go, 'Hey! We've got another suicide-let's call Robin Tunney! It's weird, but they're all different, and I guess it gives the characters some kind of power... At least I play women who are strong enough to take the power into their own hands! And kill themselves! So many women in films just shoot themselves in the head anyway, because they're not really there for any reason.

  Robin Tunney

  Suicide, Strong, Character

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• A film can be big or small - I have to just fall in love with it. To connect with the character, the script, and the director. Sometimes they say to you, 'You should do that for your career; it's a big thing, people will go and see it,' but I wouldn't be able to, because my heart wouldn't be in it. I would drive people quite mad.

  Eva Green

  Falling In Love, Character, Heart

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• I think it's very important to recognize talent in all facets of filmmaking. Making a movie is such a lengthy and intense experience, so it's wonderful to honour actors, directors, producers and all crew members who put so much hard work and passion into a project.

  Eva Green

  Hard Work, Passion, Thinking

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• I give everything to my work, and I like complex roles, characters that aren't obvious. I've been very lucky so far, and I'm dreaming of working with directors like Jane Campion, Susanne Bier and the Dardennes. But the gods will decide.

  Eva Green

  Dream, Character, Giving

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• I'm trying to work only with established, respected directors. I took a lot of bad scripts and worked for a lot of lazy directors, and it was discouraging to go to the screenings and see that the director had added nothing, the editor had added nothing, there was nothing to see.

  Michael Caine

  Editors, Lazy, Trying

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• For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa.

  Henry Rollins

  Years, Giants, My Favorite

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• I'm not in a position where I get to pick and choose roles. I usually go on auditions in long lines and embarrass myself in front of casting directors, and with a lump in my throat and my ears burning, I walk past reception and smirking actors as I go to the parking garage and go back on the highway.

  Henry Rollins

  Past, Long, Roles

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• Whenever I work on something, I try and throw everything I have at it. Then if the director finds it useful they use it, and if not, they ignore it!

  John C. Reilly

  Trying, Use, Ifs

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• Miloš Forman is a great director; Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.

  Twyla Tharp

  Wonderful, Brooks

  "The High Priestess of Creative Movement". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• John Huston was the kind of director that totally left you alone. Not every actor always does it right, every time, but most of the time he was re-directing someone. He was making tight adjustments, and not even in terms of interpretation because he knew that by the time that the character had been filmed... well, he got it right when he cast you.

  Theodore Bikel

  Character, Doe, Actors

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• Amazon has included me in an opportunity to provide top-shelf television-style programming live on the world's computer screens. To hold forth with the industry's very best actors, directors, musicians, authors - I'm thrilled to be on the cutting edge of this.

  Bill Maher

  Cutting, Opportunity, Style

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• I came up in the community center. I used to be physical director of the South Central Community Center in Chicago on 83rd. It's still there. It used to be around there when I was a kid.

  Bernie Mac

  Kids, Community, Chicago

  "Bernie Mac Turns to Drama in Pride". MovieWeb interview, movieweb.com. March 19, 2007.

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• As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.

  Billy Crystal

  Character, Actors, Moments

  "Billy Crystal for 'Monsters Inc.'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. November 1, 2001.

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• You are the director of your own life story. Don't cast idiots or people will walk out during your 2nd act.

  Dane Cook

  People, Stories, Idiot

  FaceBook post by Dane Cook from Sep 03, 2014

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• Actors, writers, directors - that triumvirate of creativity - we have to rely and trust each other to be able to get to the final product.

  Bryan Cranston

  Creativity, Actors, Able

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