Direct Quotes - Page 40

• People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film.

  Julianne Moore

  Eye, Thinking, People

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. May 28, 2008.

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• I don't really want to direct myself, but I'm certainly torn in that direction.

  Paul Reubens

  Want, Torn

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. July 26, 2006.

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• I have my set rigged with the biggest sound system possible and have a mini jack for my iPod attached to my director's chair. I find playing music is a very direct way to communicate with actors and the crew, especially those crew members who are on the periphery of the set. I like dancing on set too, it's a good way to release tension.

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Ipods, Dancing, Sound

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The team you belong to must come ahead of the team you lead: this is putting team results (e.g., organizational needs) ahead of individual agendas (e.g., the team or division you lead, your ego, your need for recognition, your career development, etc.) Confidentiality is respected downward more than it is respected upward. Organizational alignment is a direct result of this hierarchy (if it were the other way around, organizational alignment would be very difficult to achieve).

  Patrick Lencioni

  Team, Careers, Ego

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• I always wanted to write movies that I'd direct. I didn't come at it from a writing standpoint more than a directing standpoint, except that growing up, I didn't have the opportunity to shoot as much as I did to write.

  Noah Baumbach

  Growing Up, Writing, Opportunity

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's music in my films but you seldom hear it. Very early I got the idea that the important things in films were people - the actors. They are the intermediary between the director and the audience. They make direct contact. People to people communication.

  Frank Capra

  Communication, Ideas, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I would not like to direct, I would be one of those terrible directors who can't help line reading the actors their lines, because I would just want to be doing their parts.

  Ruby Bentall

  Reading, Directors, Would Be

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I'm trying to avoid any more asshole roles, at least for a little bit. The main criteria for me when choosing a project is a good director. I just want to work with these guys that I admire because I do want to direct my own films one day, and I want to pick their brains to see what their process is like, and see what I can take from that.

  Dave Franco

  Guy, Brain, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• With these Funny or Die videos, I do everything for them. I write them, act in them, and co-direct them with my buddy Brian McGinn, who I grew up with. We also edit them together. We're working on a small scale of Internet videos, but we're slowly trying to make them become a bigger thing.

  Dave Franco

  Writing, Trying, Together

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We have a direct contact with our clothes; they're like a little house. You have to feel good and at home in what you wear and. I think that's elegance. Chanel said something like: "When a woman is badly dressed, one sees the dress, and when she is well dressed, one sees the woman." That's what I'm talking about.

  Christophe Lemaitre

  Home, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Well, actors get very frustrated with giving control to other people. They have their own ideas and wants for their characters. Warren Beatty once told me that he thought actors ended up directing out of frustration. If you have a strong sense of how to communicate a film, you should direct. The problem is that it is a huge commitment. I'd rather direct a play than a film due to the time. A movie can tie you up for a year or more.

  Alec Baldwin

  Movie, Strong, Character

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• I would love to be able to get behind the camera and direct actors. I think that would be a lot of fun.

  Colin Hanks

  Fun, Thinking, Actors

  "Tower Records' Fallen Empire". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 16, 2015.

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• New Jersey was actually a very cold place. There was such an intense concentration of wealth, and such a low concentration of any actual human happiness. A lot of people seem to be similar to the kid in school, which is doing a lot of things with no direct consequence to their joy, or their lives.

  Ezra Miller

  School, Kids, Concentration Of Wealth

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.

  Padgett Powell

  People, Way, Conversation

  Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2012.

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• Manga uses Japanese traditional structures in how to teach the student and to transmit a very direct message. You learn from the teacher by watching from behind his back. The whole teacher-master thing is part of Asian culture, I think.

  Takashi Murakami

  Teacher, Thinking, Asian

  Interview with Alison Gingeras, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 15, 2010.

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• I'm pretty busy in my life and I'm very aware of what it takes to direct a movie. It takes a lot out of you; it takes a lot out of the rest of your life, from other people in your life. I don't lie around hungering for that consumption very often.

  Edward Norton

  Lying, People, Rest Of Your Life

  Interview with Bennett Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 3, 2014.

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• I start to get fixated on a story and a character and an idea, and at a certain point, I really want to do it. It's a compulsion to explore a specific thing, as opposed to a compulsion to direct, generally speaking.

  Edward Norton

  Character, Ideas, Stories

  Interview with Bennett Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 3, 2014.

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• See, I don't get the sense that you need to direct at all. Sometimes I get the opposite sensation from you, that you're like, "I really should go do something else." But then you are drawn back in by a particular story, like a hangnail in the brain.

  Edward Norton

  Opposites, Brain, Needs

  Interview with Bennett Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 3, 2014.

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• I try when I'm writing to leave enough "space" for people to have their own interpretation, and not to direct it toward one conclusion. Then the audience would not be reacting, because they are being preached to or lectured at. I don't have that much to say that I think people should listen to me.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Writing, Thinking, Space

  "'Synecdoche, New York' Director Charlie Kaufman". Interview with Howard Feinstein, www.indiewire.com. October 24, 2008.

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• My advice for anyone wanting to direct is that nobody is going to hand you an opportunity. You have to create your own opportunities and not take no for an answer.

  Marielle Heller

  Opportunity, Hands, Advice

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• When you direct a film, everything should be about the story and nothing else.

  Esra Saydam

  Stories, Film, Should

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Sometimes it only takes three words, so long as they're the right words, to direct an actor in the right way.

  Patrice Leconte

  Long, Three, Actors

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I couldn't direct traffic. It's hard enough just acting.

  Mickey Rourke

  Acting, Enough, Traffic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I try to keep feeling what's going on and try to use the camera, the actors and the design to enhance those feelings. There's something really emotionally direct and honest about how I put the material with the images. You hope that the strength of mise-en-scene comes from an honesty towards the material. You also hire really well.

  Ira Sachs

  Honesty, Design, Feelings

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• For me, Twitter has given me a direct line to the world - it gave me an opportunity to be like, "This is my voice.

  Laura Benanti

  Opportunity, Voice, World

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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