Directors Quotes - Page 10

• 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'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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.

  Samantha Morton

  Lazy, Honest, Being Honest

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• I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Practice, Long, Liberty

  "Interview in Rome". Encountering Directors, (pp. 15-32), 1972.

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

  Satyajit Ray

  Film, Persons, Knows

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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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• Directors, like actors, get typecast.

  John Landis

  Actors, Typecasting

  IGN Interview, www.ign.com. February 11, 2004.

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• A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Movie, Film Directing, Independent Filmmaking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Film Directing, Independent Filmmaking, Fiction

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don’t create art to get high dollar projects, I do high dollar projects so I can create more art.

  Chase Jarvis

  Art, Money, Creating

  "Chase Jarvis: How He Became The Photographer Everyone Wants To Work With". Interview with Dan Schawbel, www.forbes.com. January 27, 2014.

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• Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.

  Edmund Burke

  Political, Firsts, Conservative

  Edmund Burke (1804). “Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.53

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• Any good movie is filled with secrets. If a director doesn't leave anything unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture's unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture is good, it's mysterious, with things unsaid.

  Ernst Lubitsch

  Secret, Good Movie, Mysterious

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

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• On set I keep myself to myself; I'd rather the director speak up. I'm not gonna direct a younger actor. I think the power of example works best, actually.

  Gary Oldman

  Thinking, Example, Actors

  "Gary Oldman: 'I still don't have a publicist'" by Kate Goodacre, www.digitalspy.com. September 2, 2011.

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• The nice thing about being a director is that I can say, "I can only get into the room after the kids are at school, and I have to be back for dinner. And they're coming for lunch."

  Angelina Jolie

  Nice, School, Kids

  "Angelina Jolie Talks MALEFICENT, Getting into Character, Wearing the Costume and Horns, Directing UNBROKEN, Balacing Work and Family, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 21, 2014.

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• I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Thinking, Theatre, Film And Television

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

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• Good is the director who lets you do what you have to do.

  Marc Ribot

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• And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made.

  Robert Towne

  Thinking, Way, Comeback

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• Arnold and Jamie Lee must have worked over the years with directors that did 50 takes, because I'd get like three takes or so and say, Ok, that's it, we're done.

  Penelope Spheeris

  Years, Three, Done

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• That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Witty, Gratitude

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• After all, at end of the day, when you're breathing your last, it's not your producer, director, or cast mates by your bedside; it's your children. Keep that in mind.

  John Ratzenberger

  Children, Breathing, Mind

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• My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.

  Edward Tufte

  Father, Government, Engineers

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