Directors Quotes - Page 2

• I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.

  John Boorman

  Japan, Numbers, Assistants

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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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• 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'm not an easygoing guy as a director.

  Ted Kotcheff

  Guy

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

  Sydney Pollack

  Becoming, Responsible, Lancaster

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• I think that I'm a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I'll tell you right now that I'm gonna think I'm a better political director than my political director.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Issues, Political

  "Battle Plans" by Ryan Lizza, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 2008.

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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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• 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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• I was too dumb to know Opie was going to grow up to be a great Director, if so, boy, I would certainly have become his best friend.

  George Lindsey

  Friendship, Growing Up, Stupid

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• On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.

  Greta Scacchi

  Running, Night, Keys

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• A good script and a good brief from the director is enough to let me know what is expected of me.

  Sanjay Dutt

  Scripts, Enough, Let Me

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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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• I directed before I was even in television; I directed in the theatre for seven years, so that was my trade anyway. But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.

  Mel Smith

  Years, Theatre, Television

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• I was six years old when I saw my first Godard movie, eight when I first experienced Bergman. I wanted to be a director when I was fourteen.

  Julie Delpy

  Eight, Years, Six Year Olds

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• I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.

  Carter Burwell

  Writing, Enjoy, Please

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• The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was told I was an actor

  Johnny Weissmuller

  Next Day, Tree, Actors

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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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• I hate to sound like Julie the cruise director but it's people that I think about all the time.

  Bruce McCulloch

  Hate, Thinking, People

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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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• 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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• Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often.

  Catherine Deneuve

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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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• 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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