Movie Director Quotes - Page 3

• There's nobody who loves being around actors working more than David Mamet, especially actors bringing his tremendous dialogue to life. I've never seen a movie director who was happier to be directing a movie than Dave.

  Clark Gregg

  Love Is, Directors, Actors

  Interview with Erik Adams, film.avclub.com. September 13, 2011.

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• I never aspired to be a television producer and a movie director, and I'm shocked that this idea is still going on.

  Jeff Tremaine

  Ideas, Directors, Television

  Source: collider.com

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• I think a lot of people have a vision of L.A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions by the swimming pool.

  Bruno Tonioli

  Swimming, Thinking, People

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• When I look around and see how aged cartoonists continue to work on their manga and how movie directors create new movies all the time, I understand that they would never retire. And by the same token, I guess I will still be making games somehow. The only question is whether the younger people will be willing to work with me at that far point in the future.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Games, People, Directors

  "Shigeru Miyamoto on Mario Galaxy 2, violence in games and the Vitality Sensor". GamesTM Interview, www.gamestm.co.uk.

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• The Vietnamese Hoa were merchants and manufacturers. They were very successful and thus, according to the logic of Marxism, responsible for society's failures. The Hoa suffered the same fate as the pizza parlour in Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing except at the hands of the world's fourth largest army instead of a small, petulant movie director.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Successful, Army, Fate

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.327, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I will never become a director or a movie producer. I was always looking at picture directing because I didn't know what to do! You can't be a movie director without real preparation.

  Liam Neeson

  Movie, Real, Preparation

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• Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director.

  John Milius

  Quality, Directors, Fields

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 7, 2003.

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• I deal with guys in their 20s and early 30s who are presidents of companies, who are movie directors.

  Peter Criss

  Guy, President, Directors

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• I'm a curious person. I pursue things based on what sparks my interest. I'm not thinking about what role I play. I don't have to be a movie director or this or that. I just want to be part of projects and places that are of interest to me.

  Roman Coppola

  Thinking, Play, Directors

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

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• I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Directors, Want, Mines

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• I love movie directors. I don't care who it is.

  Brett Ratner

  Movie Love, Directors, Care

  "Chris Tucker and Brett Ratner". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. August 7, 2007.

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• I like to think of myself as a fairly educated human being, but I'm a very uneducated actor when it comes to movies, directors, producers, actors for that matter.

  Shailene Woodley

  Thinking, Directors, Actors

  "‘The Descendants’ Breakout Shailene Woodley on Her Future and Working With George Clooney" by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. December 02, 2011.

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• I'm like a movie director, so wherever I feel that I need to go over this type of beat, that's what I'm going to do, that's where I'm going to go.

  Ghostface Killah

  Directors, Needs, Beats

  Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. October 5, 2009.

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• Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.

  Tom Perrotta

  Writing, Expression, Directors

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• I also think if you get sort of early success there's always this part of you which feels like, "I need to address the imbalance, I need to kind of earn that success after the fact". I try to find roles that are hard and also, I still find now, even after I've done loads of really random movies, directors are really surprised that I want to play the parts that I want to play. They just assume that you want to only do the honorable good guy lead who saves the day or dies at the end .

  Robert Pattinson

  Thinking, Play, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.

  Rebecca De Mornay

  Directors, Singers, Riders

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• All the great advances in cinema came about from technology. The 3-D camera was not invented by a movie director. The new industries are driven by the innovations in science and technology.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Technology, Innovation, Cameras

  "Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson on Writing, Mars, Curiosity, and the Higgs Boson". Interview With Sandra Kitt, aalbc.com. January 1, 2013.

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