Directors Quotes - Page 5

Maybe I have just a younger voice than many other directors.

Michael Bay

Voice

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Being a producer, I deal with a lot of different directors, and some of them would drive me insane with all the different histrionics, and the mystique that they carry.

Matthew Vaughn

Insane, Different, Producers

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I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.

Alex Cox

Actors, Good Actors

Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January 2003.

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Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women.

Pedro Almodovar

My Favorite, Masters, Owners

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When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.

Jacques Rivette

Film History, Certain, Young

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Most actors go, I read the script and fell in love with it; I fall in love with the directors.

Sam Worthington

Love, Fall, Actors

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Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.

Samantha Morton

Trust, Forget, Casts

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So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.

Jodie Foster

Listening

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Twelve years on sets watching directors, I've taken a bit from everybody and rejected a lot.

Christopher Eccleston

Taken, Years, Twelve

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.

Omar Epps

Doubt, Instinct, Overbearing

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Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those days, artists or directors or producers, as the case may be.

Lew Wasserman

Artist, May, Cases

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Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel.

Jason Reitman

Movie, Jobs, Actors

"Director Jason Reitman Talks YOUNG ADULT and His LACMA Live Reading Series". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 7, 2011.

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To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision.

Jane Campion

Ethos, Vision, Feminine

Jane Campion, Virginia Wright Wexman (1999). “Jane Campion: Interviews”, p.53, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.

Vincent D'Onofrio

Europe, Back When, Call Me

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When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.

James Dean

Inspirational, Motivational, Following Instructions

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.

Jodie Foster

Psychology, Shooting, Firsts

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There are a lot of directors who are knowledgeable about images, and others who aren't.

Conrad Hall

Knowledgeable

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I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.

Alfred Hitchcock

Art, History, Body

1956 In Newsweek,11 Jun.

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I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.

Elia Kazan

Littles, Unusual, Dangerous

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Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.

Skeet Ulrich

Ambiguity, Deals, Hard

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And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy a director of category B, not a big director.

Claudia Cardinale

Individualism, Bigs, Categories

Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2003.

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I think drug movies free the director to make intense films

Ray Liotta

Thinking, Drug, Film

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As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors.

Chow Yun-Fat

Actors, Factories, Workers

"Working in Front of the Camera Keeps Me Alive'". Interview with Stephen Short, content.time.com. December 27, 1999.

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As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over.

Stanley Tucci

Design, Doe, Film

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Directors say that you should get actors before they are recognized. They will be a pain in the...or have an opinion.

Dianne Wiest

Pain, Actors, Opinion

"Dianne Wiest at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival". Interview with Leslie Rigoulot, www.filmscouts.com. January 20, 1996.

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