Directors Quotes - Page 40

• The director Denis [Villeneuve] is actually an actor (he's from Sons of Anarchy and he's a great character actor) and he's also a screenwriter (he wrote What Lies Beneath). It blows my mind to see when people from one sector move to another and excel. I think Sicario was one of the best directed and written films. It did get [a nomination for best] cinematography, though.

  Bun B

  Lying, Moving, Character

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• I gotta say, the Catholic Church has churned out a lot of great artists and directors and actors, so if that's all they do, that's fine by me. If they're good at churning out tortured artists, that's great!

  Paul Rust

  Artist, Catholic, Church

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I always think that the writer is doing the vast majority of the director's work, in a sense. If you're a writer who is also going to direct, you're doing all your preparation: You're already visualizing everything, you're imagining how the lines are going to be read, you see the blocking in your head, and you know the rhythm and the pacing.

  Harold Ramis

  Block, Thinking, Preparation

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's a great luxury for me to be able to write on the films that I direct, and kind of a nice thing to be able to write enough to get credit, which is difficult for a director.

  Harold Ramis

  Nice, Writing, Luxury

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When a director writes, there's a compulsory arbitration. You have a right to challenge any of the arbitrators, but they pick three of four arbitrators who read all the drafts with no names attached and then allocate credit.

  Harold Ramis

  Writing, Names, Challenges

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The rule of thumb for a director or producer - which prevents them from just sticking their names on everything - is that you have to contribute substantially more than 50 percent of the character dialogue and story.

  Harold Ramis

  Character, Names, Stories

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• The lack of racial diversity and gender diversity and the lack of female directors - those are not fashionable issues. And they're not issues that reside solely within the film industry.

  Cate Blanchett

  Issues, Diversity, Female

  "Cate Blanchett Knows You're Zooming in on Her Pores and She's Cool with It". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.marieclaire.com. February 29, 2016.

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• I was aware of the possible biases you could get as a commercial director, like being too concerned about the technical aspects of the form rather than anything of substance. If you keep working in commercials, you can get trapped in a very superficial way of thinking. I always used commercials as an exercise for filmmaking, like going to the gym.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Exercise, Thinking, Substance

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I was younger, I would mess about and have a laugh with everyone. I was doing Atonement when I was about 12, and as we went to do this very serious scene, the director Joe [Wright] came up to me ... I'd been giggling right up to the beginning of the take. And he came up to me and said, "Okay, you need to be serious now." I completely idolized him.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Laughing, Needs, Serious

  "The Legend: Jodie Foster". Interview with Jodie Foster, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• I don't really think I have the personality. I am not very external. I don't want to dance on the table and do impressions. So I think that the way I approach it is really loving story. That's my first love - the words. The words and the story and how to create images. I guess I come at that as a director. I think that's much more in my personality to be a director, so that's kind of informed my acting.

  Jodie Foster

  First Love, Thinking, Personality

  "The Legend: Jodie Foster". Interview with Saoirse Ronan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• I’ve had unsatisfying experiences, but mostly it’s about communication, which is why I make an effort to talk to the director beforehand to make sure we see eye-to-eye as creative individuals. If [good] communication isn’t present, you can lose something and end up very unhappy.

  Martin Starr

  Communication, Eye, Effort

  "Martin Starr’s Star Turn". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 21, 2012.

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• I kind of end up getting caught up in whatever the rhythm of the movie is and how open the director is to changing things in the moment or finding it in rehearsal.

  Michael Cera

  Rehearsal, Kind, Moments

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you're working with a director you trust, you can turn that part of you off that wants to direct other actors in a certain way.

  Michael Cera

  Actors, Want, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I do go to L.A., it is usually for a reason - to meet with a director or something - but I'm always so happy to go back to London.

  Douglas Booth

  London, Reason

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have never played a superhero in real life and I would imagine it is very different Voiceover is super easy. You just come in and do a bunch of versions of it and then the animators and directors on that side of the movie put your performance together.

  Jeremy Sisto

  Real, Superhero, Together

  "Interview with Hangman star Jeremy Sisto". Interview with Bobby Blakey, www.axs.com. March 3, 2016.

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• I had a 90-minute one-man show. I performed it and my life just exploded. Everything - my life just changed. Every writer, director, producer, studio head, movie star - they all wanted it. It was the hottest property since 'Rocky.'

  Chazz Palminteri

  Stars, Men, Minutes

  "Chazz Palminteri on 'A Bronx Tale,' Keyser Söze, and Stallone's career advice". Interview with Ryan Vlastelica, www.avclub.com. March 2, 2016.

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• My favorite thing in moviemaking is to shoot in chronological order if at all possible, because it just helps for continuity and all the logistical purposes. It also helps with performance and the journey of each character, but I also think it's good for the director and everyone [else] involved.

  Zoe Bell

  Character, Journey, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If anyone has the opportunity to work with that woman, jump at it. She is the most generous, most giving director I have ever worked with in my entire life. She is classy. She speaks a dozen difference languages.

  Tituss Burgess

  Opportunity, Differences, Giving

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Yeah, the actors really come in as lumps of clay. We're ready to work with the directors and find our way. These guys really come in having done their work.

  Jason Graae

  Guy, Clay, Actors

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Half the fun is getting to play dress-up and imagine what it's like to be this other person. If you're not excited about a part where you get to use your imagination, then what's the point in doing it? It'll be just another job. Also, Director Michael Pressman and I see eye-to-eye with Marie.

  Zoe Kazan

  Jobs, Fun, Eye

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Being a creative person. It's so much more rewarding when you find things on your own, to live whatever the writers are writing or to display what the director is looking for. You are the thing that everybody uses to get the story out.

  Laura Bell Bundy

  Writing, Creative, Stories

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• There's was no pressure on it for me - I just went in and had fun. Whatever Jason Moore, the director, asked me to do, I did it! I ran around the room acting like a crazy guest on "Jerry Springer" and yelling at the audience. I just went for it.

  Max von Essen

  Fun, Crazy, Yelling

  "Max Von Essen: High-Notes in High-Heels". Interview with Eugene Lovendusky, www.broadwayworld.com. January 14, 2008.

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• The music director, Stephen Oremus, was telling me: "I hope you've done your work." We only have ten days rehearsal. The music is no joke. My solo singing is not that hard. But the stuff I have as part of the choir or as a "Dead Guest" in the second-half... I'm singing some really incredible chorus stuff that I haven't done in a long time. It's extremely difficult.

  Max von Essen

  Long, Singing, Done

  "Max Von Essen: High-Notes in High-Heels". Interview with Eugene Lovendusky, www.broadwayworld.com. January 14, 2008.

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• I just started to want to be more hands on, and again, because of the nature of this job which was to evaluate the writing apart from the production, I got clear on what a director did and I became interested in directing, so I started to do that in the late 80s.

  Rob Urbinati

  Jobs, Writing, Hands

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I hadn't studied theatre and I hadn't studied actor training or anything, but I did have a sense of movement and composition, and what the final product would be like, but luckily I had friends who were good actors, who would help me get them, who would get themselves to the place where a good director should get them to build characters.

  Rob Urbinati

  Character, Training, Theatre

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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