Directors Quotes - Page 7

• I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film.

  Jeff Bridges

  Art, Receiving, Messages

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• Every casting director I've met is a woman.

  Cameron Diaz

  Casting, Mets, Casting Directors

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• How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Movie, People, Details

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• I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.

  Carroll O'Connor

  Running

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• My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.

  Cole Porter

  Inspiration, Telephones, Sole

  1955 Interview, 8 Feb.

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• Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to.

  Alexis Bledel

  Stress, People, Answers

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. October 8, 2002.

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• I think Van Sant is the most important American director we have. He takes the most risks. He's just pure to me.

  Michael Pitt

  Thinking, Risk, Important

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• Jim Brooks is a very powerful director and it was a lot of intense work.

  Tea Leoni

  Powerful, Intense, Brooks

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

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• I would love to have a part opposite a great actor - like, say, Pacino or De Niro or Hoffman. And to work with a top director. That's my dream.

  Jon Lovitz

  Dream, Opposites, Actors

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• Every director is completely different.

  Miranda Otto

  Different

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• The first thing I ask when Im offered a part is, Whos the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles.

  Swoosie Kurtz

  Firsts, Los Angeles, Asks

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• How can you have a director that doesn't go to work with the crew every day and talk to them?

  Don Bluth

  Crew

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• Id love to see more women working as directors and producers.

  Ida Lupino

  Producers

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• Personally Im very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Collaboration, Behind The Scenes, Very Happy

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• You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience.

  Steven Bochco

  Giving, Blueprints, Visuals

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• Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.

  Carter Burwell

  Would Be, Instruction, Given

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• I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game.

  Bob Balaban

  Thinking, Games, Acting

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• I had no plans to be a director.

  Mike Figgis

  Plans

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• Every part I've done has been for one reason or another-money, or the part, or the director, or the location. I'd like to get one thing that's all of those combined.

  Joan Severance

  Done, Location, Reason

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

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• I mean, I've sold all these scripts and nothing's been made. Studios have closed, stars have died. I had a director find Jesus. And the pictures just don't get made.

  Bruce Vilanch

  Jesus, Stars, Mean

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• The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting.

  Victoria Abril

  Monday, Horse, Hands

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• You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern.

  Ann Macbeth

  World, Patterns, Advertising

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• You don't even need the director's judgement. It's too much.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Judgement, Needs, Too Much

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

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• The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.

  Trevor Nunn

  Ghouls, Decision, Finals

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• I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started.

  Preston Sturges

  Night, Ukulele, Shooting

  Preston Sturges, Sandy Sturges (1991). “Preston Sturges by Preston Sturges: His Life in His Words”, p.294, Simon and Schuster

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