Directors Quotes - Page 2

• I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor.

  Jonathan Frakes

  Thinking, Actors

  "An in-depth Interview With Jonathan Frakes". IGN interview, www.ign.com. July 27, 2004.

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• What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that's always very flattering.

  Katherine Dunn

  Book, Thinking, Use

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• Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.

  Sydney Pollack

  Becoming, Responsible, Lancaster

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• I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.

  Aaron Eckhart

  Actors, Helping, Help Me

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• You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.

  Leon Panetta

  Goes On, World, Awful

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• I choose movies, I never choose roles. I look at the script. I look at the director. I look at the other actors - and then the role.

  Elle Macpherson

  Roles, Looks, Actors

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• During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Years, Development, Levels

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• Oh, well, in Los Angeles everybody is an actor, or a producer, or a writer, or a director, or an agent, or... So everybody understands the hours.

  Julie Benz

  Actors, Agents, Los Angeles

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• Of all the projects I've worked on, I've never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he's a genius.

  Linda Blair

  Thinking, Genius, Projects

  Interview with Frank Moran, www.horrorgalore.com. March 24, 2015.

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• I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Past, Prime, Memoir

  "I felt I had befouled myself" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2004.

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• My husband's a director, so he understands what I do.

  Sasha Alexander

  Husband, My Husband

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• One guy records the voices, another guy times the storyboard, another guy times the sheets, one guy is the story editor. All these jobs should be covered by the director.

  John Kricfalusi

  Jobs, Editors, Voice

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• I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

  Dino De Laurentiis

  Cameras, Exciting, Producers

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• George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go.

  Richard Perle

  Agency, Culture, Enough

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• The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.

  Stephen Rea

  Nerves, Actors, Worst

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• One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.

  Janet Suzman

  Giving, Interesting, Trying

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• I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.

  Ted Kotcheff

  Guy

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• I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Sides, Comedy, Process

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• Directing, I just feel comfortable. I know what I want. I know what I want from my crew. I lead by example. I have limitless energy as a director.

  Ricky Schroder

  Energy, Example, Want

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• My director, Jesus, does not teach me to count my acts, but to do everything for love, to refuse Him nothing, to be pleased when He gives me a chance to prove to Him that I love Him - but all this in peace - in abandonment.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Love, Christian, Jesus

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• As a writer, you have control of the words you put on the page. But once that manuscript leaves your hand, you give control to the reader. As a director, you are limited by everything: weather, budget, and egos.

  Nicholas Meyer

  Hands, Weather, Giving

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• I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director.

  Jason Patric

  People, Use, Actors

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• Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

  Victoria Abril

  Two, People, Acting

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

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• Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

  James Agate

  Player, Theatre, Facts

  James Agate (1944). “Ego 6: Once More the Autobiography of James Agate”

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• I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.

  Jeff Bridges

  Movie, Ideas, Lucky

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