Directors Quotes - Page 20

• In every shoot, between the actor and the director there is manipulation. I'm not saying that negatively. It's healthy.

  Adele Exarchopoulos

  Healthy, Actors, Manipulation

  "Adèle Exarchopoulos: Fall in love. Have a huge fight. Do it again". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2013.

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• I'm happy that my films were discovered by chance by foreign film festivals. That makes me realise more that there is a world outside Japan too. For me, it's an occasion to meet many people and to experience directly the response of international audiences to my films. But for me as a director, my attitude towards making films hasn't changed with the fame. I feel it's not good to change as a person anyway

  Takashi Miike

  Attitude, Japan, People

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

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• After college I funded my short films with acting roles in film and TV. I learned my craft through the great opportunities British television gave me as a director.

  Justin Chadwick

  Opportunity, College, Acting

  "INTERVIEW | “The First Grader” Director Aims to Uplift and Make You Think". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. May 10, 2011.

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• There are lots of good directors I would like to work with; I want to be inspired and challenged by them.

  Julian Ovenden

  Want, Inspired, Be Inspired

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• We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.

  Damian Loeb

  Art, Conform, Ideals

  "Damian Loeb Brings Hyperrealism To Another Level (NSFW PHOTOS)", www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2013.

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• Back when I was looking for my next step and was researching Gannett, I was interested in who was leading the various businesses within the organization: Are there a lot of women and minorities in important, operational roles, senior management and the board of directors?

  Gracia Martore

  Senior, Organization, Important

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• Those who have themselves for a spiritual director have a fool for a spiritual director.

  Philip Neri

  Spiritual, Fool

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• While Admiral Neffenger is an impressive man, it is naive and dangerous to pretend installing one director can heal what ails TSA, the Department of Homeland Security needs to admit that it has a crisis of bureaucratic complacency - lacking an overarching vision and coherent measures of success and failure.

  Benjamin E. Sasse

  Success, Men, Tsa

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• I hope I don't just do the exact same thing my whole life. I also feel like it's really hard to make comedy. It's almost impossible for comedy filmmakers and directors to stay relevant as they get older.

  David Wain

  Comedy, Impossible, Filmmaker

  Interview with Toph Eggers, believermag.com. March 1, 2011.

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• I've come to the possible conclusion that being a comedic writer/director is like running track. You do it for a certain amount of time and then you have to stop. Or you at least have to accept that you're not going to be at the top of your game. And that's OK.

  David Wain

  Running, Games, Track

  Interview with Toph Eggers, believermag.com. March 1, 2011.

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• The really important people in TV are not the directors; they're the writers.

  Mary Harron

  People, Important, Tvs

  Interview with Anisse Gross, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• The good part of working in TV is it's like being a studio director in old Hollywood and approaching different genres. It's a chance to try out different styles.

  Mary Harron

  Style, Trying, Hollywood

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• When I took the job as Estée Lauder's creative director, the first thing I did was go into the archives! I love taking our heritage and making it modern.

  Aerin Lauder

  Jobs, Creative, Archives

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I place a higher value on work ethic than talent, because, in certain areas, you just need to cast, you need to cast actors with talent, you need to hire directors with talent, but I've worked with very talented people who have a poor work ethic, and the outcome is less desirable than people who are less talented and have an incredible work ethic.

  Damon Lindelof

  People, Work Ethic, Needs

  "Damon Lindelof on Struggling With Depression and Why Knowing J.J. Abrams is 'A Bit of a Curse'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 8, 2015.

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• If you're creative, they let you be the showrunner, producer. The first thing my partner and I did as producers was hire ourselves as directors - because who else would hire me?

  Garry Marshall

  Creative, Firsts, Partners

  Source: deadline.com

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• As you get older - for example, in our band we have members of our orchestra, like Carlos Enriquez and Ali Jackson and Walter Blanning. I taught them when they were in high school, and now they teach me.I'll regularly call Ali and say, "Man, can you break this rhythm down for me?" Or Carlos was actually our music director in Cuba, and he's been instrumental in a lot of my education, and I started to develop a saying with them, because they tease me all the time - you get older, you have that familiar relationship - I say, "You have to follow your young leadership, too."

  Wynton Marsalis

  School, Men, Example

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You'll still work with some directors where that doesn't happen, and sometimes it's out of necessity because you're in a really complicated, choreographed fight scene and the whole thing is being prevised in a computer, so it's been decided months before, but I think that's sneaking into the way action scenes are shot.

  Paul Bettany

  Fighting, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I remember coming on my first set and it being a playground of things I wanted to ask questions about: cameras and lenses and what the lenses do, what's the focus puller doing and how does that work? Why is there less margin for error when there's less light? I was always asking questions and watching directors closely.

  Paul Bettany

  Asking Questions, Light, Errors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In many cases for an actor it's a comfortable position to be in. But it's harder to fail as a director.

  Jean Dujardin

  Actors, Failing, Cases

  Interview with Anthony D’Alessandro, deadline.com. February 9, 2012.

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• I wanted to be in film. I wanted to be a film student, possibly be a director or cinematographer, not an actor. That was my goal. I didn't believe I had the physical beauty that I'd seen projected and advertised in movies, in theater. It just wasn't for me.

  Pam Grier

  Believe, Goal, Actors

  "Actress Pam Grier". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 13, 2010.

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• I wanted to know as the director how the actors wanted to tell this story I wanted to know what they thought.

  Paul Bettany

  Stories, Actors, Wanted

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• To the documentary director the appearance of things and people is only superficial. It is the meaning behind the thing and the significance underlying the person that occupy his attention... Documentary approach to cinema differs from that of story-film not in its disregard for craftsman-ship, but in the purpose to which that craftsmanship is put. Documentary is a trade just as carpentry or pot-making. The pot-maker makes pots, and the documentarian documentaries.

  Paul Rotha

  People, Cinema, Attention

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• I recognize the amount of time that it takes as a director. I made the choice to stop taking roles outside of L.A. because I didn't want to miss any of my child's life.

  Regina King

  Children, Choices, Missing

  "Regina King’s Primetime". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 13, 2015.

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• It's always different, depending on the writer and the director. A collaborator like Graham Reznick delivers a fully finished piece, perfected in every way. Other writers direct the recording session and then leave quite a bit of the work to us.

  Larry Fessenden

  Different, Pieces, Way

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• When I write a film, the film gets handed off to a producer and a director and I go my merry way. With television, I am expected and contracted to stick around and actually produce what I've written.

  Marc Guggenheim

  Writing, Television, Way

  "'Arrow's Marc Guggenheim Talks New Comic 'Jonas Quantum,' DC Crossovers & More". Interview with Andrew Dyce, screenrant.com. May 13, 2015.

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