Directors Quotes - Page 31

• Since signing with Universal, I have been working closely with Gary Ross, the director, producer and screenwriter. We have spent many hours on the phone, and I've been sending him information and items that have been useful to the writing process.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Writing, Phones, Information

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• As a director, your job is to make sure no one for any reason is taken out of the film. Sometimes it's impossible and sometimes things don't come out the way you want them to, but I think you have to work really hard at making the world engrossing and details are a major part of that.

  Cary Fukunaga

  Jobs, Taken, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• The best and most talented directors - and I think it goes for people too - are the most confident in giving room to their actors and trusting them.

  Ari Graynor

  Thinking, People, Giving

  "Exclusive: Ari Graynor Talks LUCKY, THE SITTER and WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER?". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 15, 2011.

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• Because I've always aspired to direct and produce, I've literally worked with about 200 directors and countless producers, so what I appreciate is how, through osmosis and through actually asking questions and through people offering wisdom, there's a lot in there.

  Malik Yoba

  Asking Questions, Offering, Osmosis

  Source: collider.com

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• With acting it's your neck up there in the end. And if you think the director can't help you it's one thing. But if you feel they're reining you in when they need to be giving you some rope, or vice versa, then I just don't tolerate that.

  John Malkovich

  Thinking, Giving, Acting

  "New Again: John Malkovich". Interview with Becky Johnston, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 10, 2015.

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• I've worked with some absolutely wonderful directors who bring out the best in me and I know I can trust, and then I've had the opposite experience, too. I've had both experiences, and obviously one is good and one is not good. When they're great, it's good. When they're not great, it's not so great.

  Kari Matchett

  Opposites, Wonderful, Knows

  Source: collider.com

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• One of the things that's awesome about being an actor is that you get to do stories, live lives and have experiences that you never could have even conceived of, and that's because you're living in another writer's imagination and another director's imagination.

  Brit Marling

  Live Life, Imagination, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• As an actor, most of the time, you only have so much say in how, what and where things go. As a director, you really get to paint a bigger picture. You have many more brushes to use.

  Eric Balfour

  Use, Actors, Paint

  Source: collider.com

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• I think directors can be a little insensitive to how vulnerable an actor is, when he's giving a performance. Part of the job of an actor is to invite scrutiny, but with that, the people around them have to nurture that and put them in an environment where they feel safe and they feel like they can risk something.

  Eric Balfour

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• As a director, you want to be really connected to every part of your set, from your actors all the way to your camera operators. Everybody is a part of the creative process, and if they feel like they're part of a team versus just being a tool, they're going to give you something special.

  Eric Balfour

  Team, Giving, Creative

  Source: collider.com

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• Nothing is worse for me, as an actor, than when I walk on a set and the director goes, "Okay, you're going to be standing here, the other person is going to be standing here, and you're going to move to there and then do the scene." That doesn't help actors.

  Eric Balfour

  Moving, Actors, Helping

  Source: collider.com

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• Stepping out of the director's chair completely and into a scene as an actor was weird. It was more excitement about directing than anything, but I was on a high from being a director and enjoying that process so much that going back to being an actor was almost secondary because I really was loving directing.

  Eric Balfour

  Actors, Excitement, Scene

  Source: collider.com

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• I would really like to focus on directing features, and then eventually take that skill set back to television. On features, you have more control. On television, the producers are the creative forces behind it. Directors come and go on television.

  Eric Balfour

  Skills, Focus, Creative

  Source: collider.com

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• Unless you're a directing producer of a television show, for the most part, the director comes in one week to direct and episode, and then leaves. I'd much rather produce television and occasionally direct an episode of a show I'm producing, then just come in as an outside director.

  Eric Balfour

  Television, Week, Episodes

  Source: collider.com

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• I graduated from high school with the art award and I had made a ton of short films, but it was before DVDs with director commentary.

  Kevin Munroe

  Art, School, Awards

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a control freak, so that's why I became a director.

  Kevin Munroe

  Freak, Control Freak

  Source: collider.com

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• I have to be strong about my own tastes because I think that's what the director's job is.

  Andre Øvredal

  Strong, Jobs, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• The core of a director is the person's tastes in what elements go together and how they go together. It's a puzzle.

  Andre Øvredal

  Together, Elements, Taste

  Source: collider.com

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• Director and producers have to take all the risks they can. We developed this film with the possibility to create departing from a blank page and to discover things as the process went along and as we understood the things that at first we couldn't understand in words.

  Alex Abreu

  Risk, Firsts, Pages

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It happens a lot, but I also think of it as not so much like being abandoned by a director 'cause they're worried about a technical aspect, but I think actually that's my job.

  Amy Ryan

  Jobs, Thinking, Causes

  Source: collider.com

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• You know, there are a lot of directors, like Clint Eastwood (on Changeling) is one where he casts you and you know in many ways that's enough for him and so, you go, ok, well, he saw something. Ok, what is it that he saw? What is it that I brought to this and why am I right for this and not trying to double-guess it and get in your own way and get psyched out, 'cause he trusts so much.

  Amy Ryan

  Trying, Way, Saws

  Source: collider.com

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• You try to follow suit and the directors I work with, like Sidney Lumet (on film in Before The Devil Knows You're Dead and TV in 100 Centre Street) who thinks actors hung the moon, thinks they can do anything, but he also works really quickly, the same like Clint Eastwood, and so you better also do your homework, you know?

  Amy Ryan

  Thinking, Moon, Devil

  Source: collider.com

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• When you think of a particular director, you think you would have liked to be with them on one particular film and not necessarily on some other one.

  Clint Eastwood

  Thinking, Film, Particular

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2003.

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• I don't need to work right away. I'd rather wait for something really good; to be excited about a role, or a director, or a project.

  Nina Dobrev

  Waiting, Needs, Roles

  "Nina Dobrev’s New Chapter". Interview with Michael Peña, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 8, 2015.

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• I've never seen a movie director who was happier to be directing a movie than Dave [Mamet]. His sets, everyone who's ever been involved with one of them will tell you of the funnest, funniest sets you can be on.

  Clark Gregg

  Dave, Movie Director, Involved

  Source: www.avclub.com

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