Directors Quotes - Page 4

• I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.

  Conrad Hall

  Thinking, Filmmaker

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• I never storyboard. I hate it. I don't understand why so many directors want to make comic strips of their films.

  Patrice Leconte

  Hate, Want, Film

  "Arms Wide Open: Patrice Leconte Talks About 'Intimate Strangers'". IndieWire Interview, www.indiewire.com. July 30, 2004.

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• I wanted to be a jazz pianist, but I wasn't good enough. I got into city college because I didn't have the grades to get into university. I took acting because it was a way to get three credits. I just needed three credits and my friend told me to take acting because it was like gym - nobody fails you. I took it and that's literally how I got involved in acting.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Life, College, Destiny

  "Dustin Hoffman at Play in Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium". Press Conference, movieweb.com. November 19, 2007.

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• Time is a precious thing. Never waste it.

  Gene Wilder

  Inspirational, Waste, Wasting Time

  "Fictional character: Willy Wonka". "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory", www.imdb.com. 1971.

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• Before you can steal fire from the Gods you gotta be able to get coffee for the director.

  David Mamet

  Coffee, Fire, Able

  "Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business". Book by David Mamet, February 2007.

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• Music is just one of the tools a director has with which to paint and I think it's one of the most effective.

  Todd Phillips

  Thinking, Tools, Paint

  Source: collider.com

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• I had no natural gift to be anything - not an athlete, not an actor, not a writer, not a director, a painter of garden porches - not anything. So I've worked really hard, because nothing ever came easily to me.

  Paul Newman

  Athlete, Garden, Actors

  The Daily News, June 10, 1991.

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• I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Character, Thinking, Numbers

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

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• One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story is its own kind of expedition, with its own set of challenges.

  Ron Howard

  Movie, Inspiring, Choices

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• I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall, I moved to London.

  Leslie Caron

  Country, Paris, House

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• When I grow up, I still want to be a director.

  Steven Spielberg

  Growing Up, Want, Grows

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• Style is something that's extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material calls for. It cannot be superimposed.

  William Friedkin

  Halloween, Style, Important

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• Work hard, don't quit, be appreciative, be thankful, be grateful, be respectful, also to never whine ever, never complain, and, always, for crying out loud, keep a sense of humor.

  Michael Keaton

  Motivational, Moving On, Thankful

  "Michael Keaton Gave An Incredibly Personal Acceptance Speech About His Tough Childhood" by Kirsten Acuna, www.businessinsider.com. January 12, 2015.

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• Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Hands, Eggs, Golden

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

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• I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Boards, East, Middle

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• I never had any classes or went to theatre school like a lot of actors, so all of my training has been on stage with different directors. That was a pretty good school room.

  James Denton

  School, Class, Training

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• I think every director has a different take, some are good, some are bad. The directors you get on best with sometimes don't make the best films, so who's to say who is right?

  Tim Roth

  Thinking, Different, Sometimes

  Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As a director, you try to find what is creative.

  Jan de Bont

  Creativity, Creative, Trying

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• Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

  Fanny Brice

  Inspirational, Giving, Needs

  "The Fabulous Fanny: The Story of Fanny Brice". Book by Norman Katkov, p. 71, 1953.

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• Ultimately in the end, it's the director's choice

  Donnie Wahlberg

  Choices, Ends

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• Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.

  Michael Landon

  Motivational, Positive, Death

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

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• All of the directors I've worked with I have loved and would work with again. I have no favorites.

  Judd Nelson

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

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• Now, I have big-money offers on three movies, and I have director approval. That's kind of scary,' he says. 'No directors have been attached. That's a lot of pressure on me

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.

  Appreciate, Scary, Pressure

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• I have great respect for directors who know what they're doing.

  Bill Mumy

  Knows, Great Respect

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• In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.

  Cameron Crowe

  Movie, Inspiring, Real

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