Directors Quotes - Page 36

• No matter what, when you major in theater arts whether you want to write or be a director or design scenery or whatever, when you are a freshman at UCLA then - I guess it's still the same way - you had to take an acting class.

  Carol Burnett

  Art, Writing, Ucla

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Acting is always more fun for me.I love being a part of a story, I love collaborating, I love working with different directors. If I just directed more and more, it would lessen the opportunity to work with all these big directors that I've had the opportunity to work with.

  John Krasinski

  Fun, Love Is, Opportunity

  "John Krasinski Is Looking To Push The Limits In Hollywood". Interview with Leigh Blickley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 29, 2016.

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• I was lucky that I was getting exposed to a lot of different kinds of films, and I was liking them all. So it seemed logical to me that you could - as in the style of the studio directors of the 30s and 40s - jump from one genre to the next, with the same satisfaction.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Style, Satisfaction, Next

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If I'm a director and I read a script and I say yeah I really want to do this, I would never walk away because the deal wasn't very good - that I wasn't getting paid very much or that the chances that I would see anything on the back end were remote because of the financial waterfall and the way it's structured. I would never use that as a reason not to do something.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Use, Want, Waterfalls

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My roommate in college in Austin, Texas, was Wes Anderson. Wes always wanted to be a director. I was an English major in college, and he got us to work on a screenplay together. And then, in working on the screenplay, he wanted my brother, Luke, and me to act in this thing. We did a short film that was kind of a first act of what became Bottle Rocket.

  Owen Wilson

  Brother, College, Texas

  Interview with Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 15, 2016.

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• Film is definitely a director's medium. They're responsible for the look and everything, and you're a part of that process as an actor, and you try to contribute to the story. But I think it might sound a little pretentious for me to say I think of myself as an artist. I think of myself as a creative person.

  Owen Wilson

  Artist, Thinking, Creative

  Interview with Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 15, 2016.

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• I don't have an interest in being a director-for-hire on sitcoms - but if it's a really cool show that I thought I could bring something to, I would love to do that.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Really Cool, Interest, Shows

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The directors are always sharp. It's true.

  George Clooney

  "‘Hail, Caesar!’ Cast on the Coen Brothers Process, Slapping George Clooney, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 3, 2016.

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• It was a really strange experience. It was very creative for Alejandro Amenábar. It was almost like it was the most I ever felt like I was helping someone paint. They had a very clear idea of what they wanted it to look like, sound like, be like. So, there was no operating outside the box. The only way to help him was to try to really be a part of his imagination and try to make it happen. He's a super kind and loving person. So, you wanted to help him. It just was none of my normal ways of helping a director work at all. So, it was a unique experience for me that way.

  Ethan Hawke

  Unique, Helping Someone, Ideas

  "Ethan Hawke on ‘Regression’, ‘The Magnificent Seven’, and Playing a Space Pimp in ‘Valerian’". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 4, 2016.

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• I'm just trying to choose interesting, quirky projects or things with interesting directors or just movies that have a lot of people I like attached to them so I know I'm going to have a good time.

  Douglas Booth

  People, Interesting, Quirky

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You can have a great script, or a great director and a bad script, and get a great movie. Nothing really guarantees anything.

  Douglas Booth

  Guarantees, Scripts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sometimes things are nothing on paper, but a genius director turns it into something amazing.

  Douglas Booth

  Genius, Paper, Sometimes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• More often than not, if you've got a good director and a good script you can't really go wrong.

  Douglas Booth

  Scripts, Good Directors, Ifs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors, directors, musicians, set designers, and photographers. In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.

  Adam McKay

  People, Musician, Hollywood

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• When you're a music director, you have people constantly sending you music and trying to get - I mean, I'm sure you have the exact same thing when you do a magazine - that you have people constantly wanting to get your attention. And I think I learnt a lot from being on that end of things, when I was trying to book the tour, the first tour we did.

  Chris Baio

  Book, Mean, Thinking

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• [Director] Peter Wallerstein does great work rescuing sea life along the shores of LA, and I helped raise money for sanctuaries such as Chimp Haven, who are now taking in over two hundred medical lab chimps released from government-funded medical testing labs.

  Alison Eastwood

  Government, Sea, Two

  "Alison Eastwood: Growing up in Hollywood, keeping grounded, and helping animals in need". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Some directors are like it's their... nothing can change, nothing can move. I like collaborating, even when an extra has an idea, I like to bring to really have collaboration.

  Louis Leterrier

  Moving, Ideas, Collaboration

  "Director Louis Leterrier On Set Interview CLASH OF THE TITANS". Group interview, collider.com. February 17, 2010.

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• All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that you have a script and it's very linear.

  Paul Greengrass

  Views, Way, Scripts

  "Director Paul Greengrass Interview GREEN ZONE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 11, 2010.

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• The choice that you really have is that you can go and work for TV which is so badly paid that you have to really churn them out which I think probably helps you develop certain muscles. I'm not sure though that you really want to have those muscles as a director.

  Robert Schwentke

  Thinking, Choices, Want

  "Director Robert Schwentke Interview THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 10, 2009.

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• I love Leonardo DiCaprio. He just makes really great films with great directors. He has great relationships with directors but also has a great social awareness. I think he balances his work with his responsibilities to his world, the environment, things like that very well. I'm very impressed by him and I admire him a lot. And other actors like Joaquin Phoenix, I just look at him and marvel at his unexpectedness, just his work really.

  Douglas Booth

  Responsibility, Thinking, Phoenix

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• But, working with directors whose history is in performance, I feel like there's a different kind of focus, as opposed to directors who are more prone to being really technically proficient or visual. I feel like there are two schools of both, and a director needs to have both.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  School, Two, Focus

  Source: collider.com

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• I have an association that director means total authority. Director means they will never let you down. Director means just trust them and fulfill their vision, and know that the story will be told in its best incarnation.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Mean, Vision, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• Well, there's a great Marlon Brando quote that to do something well you have to spiritually marry your director. You have to be making the same movie they are in that you have to try to help their imagination be better, and more full, and more fully realized, but you can't have a different imagination because then you end up - and you see this a lot in movies - where it feels like they were making five different films.

  Ethan Hawke

  Imagination, Trying, Different

  "Ethan Hawke Talks Regression". Interview with Josh Lasser, www.ign.com. February 4, 2016.

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• I've turned down good directors before because I knew the part didn't speak to me and I've worked with less talented directors before because the part I had such passion for.

  Ethan Hawke

  Passion, Speak, Turned Down

  "Ethan Hawke Talks Regression". Interview with Josh Lasser, www.ign.com. February 4, 2016.

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• I really love the experience of moving things around, in terms of being a director.

  Johnny Depp

  Moving, Term

  "Johnny Depp on His Varied Career, Jack Sparrow, and “Torturing” Leonardo DiCaprio". collider.com. February 6, 2016.

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