Directors Quotes - Page 39

• Most directors do work in pairs. There's usually some form of this, sometimes it literally comes down to you both show up in the morning and one of you is like, "I'm a little tired and overwhelmed today, so I might need you to just be a little step ahead of me and speak with more confidence because I'm not quite there." So, there's quite a bit of that in other teams.

  Mark Duplass

  Morning, Team, Tired

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• A lot of solo directors have a really strong creative producer with them. Jay and I have less of a need for that because we have each other.

  Mark Duplass

  Strong, Creative, Needs

  "Jay and Mark Duplass Don’t Want ‘Togetherness’ Season 2 to Disappoint You". Interview with Liz Shannon Miller, www.indiewire.com. February 19, 2016.

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• I personally find that each instalment has a different director, cast and crew, and I've also been in a different season in my life for each of them, so I feel like each movie is a unique experience that centres around my undying passion for music and dance.

  Alyson Stoner

  Passion, Unique, Different

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• I had to be naked [in Vinyl], but I was almost more nervous about having to be drunk. The director wasn't going to yell, "Too big!," during the nude scene. For the drunk scene, you can be bad drunk or good drunk. We'll see. My wife was not happy, hearing about it.

  Ray Romano

  Drunk, Wife, Naked

  Source: collider.com

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• When you shoot a film, when it was film, there used to be rushes and normally a director would look at them the next day. All directors look at the rushes, except for Fellini. I asked him why he didn't and said, "Because it interrupts my fantasy." What he was trying to say was that he had a three-dimensional, vibrant, living, volatile fantasy going on in his head, and when he looked at rushes, they were two-dimensional and they killed it.

  Donald Sutherland

  Two, Next Day, Trying

  "Donald Sutherland on 'Forsaken', Working with His Son for the First Time, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 21, 2016.

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• I was so disappointed [with movie Forsaken], but maybe I hadn't talked enough with the director. I don't know. But, Kiefer worked it out. Kiefer took it and re-edited it. I don't know whether he talks about that. He's probably more discreet than I am because Jon is a friend of his. Now, it fulfills what I was hoping for, and what we were working on and doing.

  Donald Sutherland

  Enough, Forsaken, Disappointed

  Source: collider.com

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• I got involved through the director of the show [Top Chef], he's a director of films in Mexico; I worked with him before. I watched the show in English -many times for many years - and I always loved it. As soon as I heard about having an opportunity to showcase Mexico in a different way, to show a different side of Mexico, that is not violent, that has beautiful colors and delicious food... I didn't think about it twice.

  Ana Claudia Talancon

  Beautiful, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I really like directors who give you a certain amount of autonomy because I think a lot about my characters and I think a lot about scenes and choices.

  Sarah Gadon

  Character, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In my experience, directors who are the most comfortable with themselves and confident in their work give you and everybody on the crew the freedom and the space to create. It's the people who are more insecure who feel the need to control and micromanage.

  Sarah Gadon

  Insecure, Space, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've been working with Five Four. The partnership started as one monthly collaboration, but now I'm the creative design director. There are still going to be collaborations for monthly drops, but we are launching e-commerce.

  Mark McNairy

  Design, Creative, Collaboration

  Source: wwd.com

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• I'm pretty sure a lot of directors would be thrilled to cast age appropriate roles. I am.

  Zoe Cassavetes

  Age, Would Be, Roles

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• If you are the writer/director especially, no one cares more about the project than you do. You know it in and out. You created it. So always listen to input but don't be afraid to veto and fight decisions that you know instinctively are wrong.

  Zoe Cassavetes

  Fighting, Decision, Care

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I'm not a feminist, but I just think it's a really cool process working with a woman as a director.

  Melanie Griffith

  Thinking, Feminist, Really Cool

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I was very obsessed with Ruth Gordon. I really didn't foresee me having any type of career as a leading lady at all because it was just blonds. I just wasn't the type - I was told that by casting directors. I auditioned for Running on Empty [1988] and The Mosquito Coast [1986], and Martha Plimpton was just killing me.

  Winona Ryder

  Running, Careers, Mosquitoes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I didn't go to acting school, so it was great to be able to rehearse for a month or two, to workshop, and be with a director who even gave me acting exercises.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  School, Exercise, Two

  "The Dreamer: Charlotte Gainsbourg". Interview with Danger Mouse, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• When you trust your director completely, then you can relax, be spontaneous, be malleable.

  Bo Derek

  Relax, Spontaneous, Be Spontaneous

  Interview with Hayley Phelan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• There's some things that you're passionate about as a director. You just know it has to be a certain way. The challenge is resolving those so everyone is happy and no one feels that they have not been heard.

  Ricky Schroder

  Challenges, Passionate, Way

  Source: 411mania.com

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• I think my family's watched me over the years in my career, in my pursuit of my career, and they've seen the challenges and the struggles that come with being an actor, with being a writer and a director, and the challenges of morphing my career in from just being an actor into a writer/director.

  Ricky Schroder

  Struggle, Thinking, Years

  Source: 411mania.com

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• Any film that you see is never just the director. If it's a film that you love, it's not so easy to say, "Oh it's directed by this person - that means everything that person directs is going be wonderful."

  Vin Diesel

  Mean, Wonderful, Film

  "Vin Diesel on Vin and Babylon A.D". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. August 28, 2008.

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• The best directors I've worked with, they all have the same thing in common. They're the first to say, 'I don't know.' If you ask them, 'How are we actually pulling off this movie?', they'll just shrug and go, 'I have absolutely no idea.'

  Ryan Reynolds

  Ideas, Firsts, Common

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Wow. Ted Cruz falsely suggested Marco Rubio mocked the bible and was just forced to fire his communications director. More dirty tricks.

  Donald Trump

  Dirty, Communication, Fire

  FaceBook post by Donald J. Trump from Feb 23, 2016

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• So getting that balance between what is honoring scripture and the Word and also acknowledging the fact that by the virtue of putting it on film there's going to be a variation and adaptation, I mean, it's a fine dance and a balance. Our producers and directors have worked so hard to get that right and I'm really proud. I think it's a pretty good job.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Jobs, Mean, Thinking

  "Joseph Fiennes on Risen and Retelling Jesus' "Unsettling" Story". Interview with Hannah Goodwyn, www1.cbn.com. May 24, 2016.

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• [Alejandro González Iñárritu] went from Birdman to this - these are incredible ledges that he's stepping out on in making these films [The Revenant]. I think his only threat for best director is Room, to be honest.

  Bun B

  Thinking, Ledges, Rooms

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• Just someone trying to shoot in 70mm deserves the nomination, and he[Quentin Tarantino] is shooting interiors, like tight interior shots, for that matter. Obviously [Quentin] is the director and demanding the shots, but all credit for the beauty of that film [Hateful Eight] goes to the director of photography.

  Bun B

  Photography, Eight, Trying

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• I think the whole nostalgia for the forty year gap for [Sylvester] Stallone was bigger than the movie [Creed], but it's good because the movie still gets recognized with Stallone's involvement. I'm sure the director [Ryan Coogler] is still proud of his film, but it's very hard to nominate a director.

  Bun B

  Thinking, Years, Proud

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