Directors Quotes - Page 9

• What do teachers and curriculum directors mean by 'value' reading? A look at the practice of most schools suggests that when a school 'values' reading what it really means is that the school intensely focuses on raising state-mandated reading test scores- the kind of reading our students will rarely, if ever, do in adulthood.

  Kelly Gallagher

  Teacher, Reading, Mean

  Kelly Gallagher, Richard L. Allington (2009). “Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and what You Can Do about it”, p.7, Stenhouse Publishers

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• Gotta watch out for directors.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Watches

  "Stephen Sondheim on Preparation". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org.

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• Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

  Thornton Wilder

  Play, Signatures, Actors

  The New York Mirror, July 13, 1956.

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• I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on.

  Laura Dern

  People, Lucky, Littles

  "New Again: Laura Dern". Interview with Gary Indiana, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 10, 2016.

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• Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach.

  Donald Pleasence

  Usa, British, Approach

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• Granted, the writers, directors, producers, and that community make a great deal of money. But they might be choosing to do a whole lot of other things for the living they make.

  Norman Lear

  Community, Might, Bedtime

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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• All of the directors I've worked with I've gotten along with very well.

  Trevor Rabin

  Wells

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• When I decided I wanted to be an actor, I said I wanted to work with quality actors and directors.

  Puff Daddy

  Quality, Actors, Said

  "P. Diddy, Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau Hit Big Screen As 'Made' Men" by Joe Dangelo, www.mtv.com. July 13, 2001.

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• Some people are directors and I think they should stay behind the camera.

  Matthew Vaughn

  Thinking, People, Cameras

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• Any great director is also someone who is incredibly intelligent about whom they hire around them.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Intelligent

  "Ryan Reynolds On Set Interview Green Lantern". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 17, 2011.

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• I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Business, Talking, Actors

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• As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate.

  Sam Mendes

  America, Firsts, First Time

  "A Private, Interior Film". Interview with Stephen Short, www.cnn.com.

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• Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director.

  Tom Skerritt

  Vision, Screenplays, Depends

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• All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.

  Spike Lee

  Motivational, Stories, Wanted

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• Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance.

  John Malkovich

  Writing, Shooting, Want

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• The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.

  Satyajit Ray

  Film, Persons, Knows

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• My Mom is a ballet director, so I had this idea in me that classical training is the best foundation for anything you do, so I wanted to get a classical background and voice.

  Shuler Hensley

  Mom, Ideas, Voice

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• In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background

  Mario Lopez

  Casting, Cases, Backgrounds

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• I don't like directors that just say, Stand there and now do this.

  Joe Pantoliano

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• I'd like to work with any actress from whom I can learn-one who has had many experiences with many directors and is willing to share some of her knowledge with me.

  Fred Savage

  Actresses, Share, Willing

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

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• A lot of young directors, they're not confident; they're not open to the emotional level of the scene.

  Terence Stamp

  Emotional, Levels, Scene

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• After Star Trek, I was with the top agencies, but producers and directors did not know what to do with me.

  Persis Khambatta

  Stars, Agency, Producers

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• Somehow I got to be one of five or six actors that the directors would use as guinea pigs at this directing colloquium, where people pay to listen to and watch the directors direct.

  Beth Henley

  Pigs, People, Watches

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• I'm not one of these directors, so far, that wants to have a whole separate director's cut of these things. So far they've turned out to be kind of the length that they wanted to be.

  Jay Roach

  Cutting, Want, Be Kind

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

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• Yes, there are directors I admire, the mavericks. Altman. There are many good directors.

  Mark Rydell

  Admire, Maverick, Good Directors

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