Directors Quotes - Page 25

• A lot of the projects that I do, I like to be involved with earlier. I just feel that, certainly from an acting point of view, it's easier to do my job, if I'm included in what the intentions are, for why people are doing what they're doing, especially with a director.

  Clive Owen

  Jobs, Views, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I think movies say a lot [about real life], even more than theater. It says a lot about the invisible, that movies are so fascinating. The camera lens is like a microscope that goes beyond the surface. It's like you're exploring a secret, so you explore the director's secret, you explore the actor's secret, and therefore you explore the universe's secrets.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Real, Thinking, Secret

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As a writer, you have to be willing to kill your darlings, and I'm a writer first. As a director, I've got no problem cutting the scenes.

  David Ayer

  Cutting, Firsts, Problem

  Source: collider.com

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• I think it's very interesting for a director that enjoys thrillers and mysteries like I do to have the challenge to do that.

  Jaume Collet-Serra

  Thinking, Interesting, Challenges

  Source: collider.com

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• I rely on my directors, a lot. I love being directed.

  Vera Farmiga

  Love Is, Rely

  "Vera Farmiga and Executive Producer Kerry Ehrin Talk BATES MOTEL, Returning for Season 2, Norma’s Possible Love Interest and Plans for Season 3". Interview by Christina Radish, collider.com. March 2, 2014.

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• I cherish each director that I have. I want to be maneuvered out of my comfort zones. I don't have the time to prepare.

  Vera Farmiga

  Comfort, Want, Cherish

  "Vera Farmiga and Executive Producer Kerry Ehrin Talk Bates Motel, Returning for Season 2, Norma’s Possible Love Interest and Plans for Season 3". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 2, 2014.

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• This is the fourth movie that I've done with this set of director-writers and I've learned to trust them at this point, because actually I started on Lego before they did.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Done, Legos, I've Learned

  Source: collider.com

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• I think, a lot of times, directors assume that whatever they get from you the first time, whether it be at an audition or on set, is all that you can bring.

  Zoe Kazan

  Thinking, Firsts, Auditions

  Source: collider.com

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• A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence.

  Jane Harman

  Years, Ideas, Able

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• The National Intelligence Director needs the authority to do the job we are asking him to do. That means power over the intelligence budget. And to be effective, to be allowed to do his or her job, they must have authority over the budget.

  Leonard Boswell

  Jobs, Mean, Needs

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• Given that most movies are bad, and that there are whole categories and sub-categories of badness - the sequel, the Madonna Movie, the Friday 13th Series, or Movies Starring John Travolta Before Pulp Fiction - it is almost impossible to choose a single film for worst movie of all time. But strangely, I do have a nomination and I believe it is actually the worst movie ever made. It is Boxing Helena. The director is David Lynch's daughter, and the film comes with the almost insane-making faults that the family connection might imply.

  Andrew O'Hagan

  Friday, Daughter, Believe

  "If I'd made that, I'd change my name". www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2004.

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• I never practice before, I never work hours on a script. I just choose my characters and trust them, and after that, it's about the director taking your hand.

  Melanie Laurent

  Character, Practice, Hands

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• Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.

  Richard Wagner

  Passion, Musician, Demand

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• The curse of comic book adaptations, when I was younger, was that the director or producer would go, "Don't worry about it, it's just a comic book."

  Len Wein

  Book, Worry, Adaptation

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't come to work as an actor. There are many directors who can direct without ever having acted and do a great job and connect with their actors and lead them to excellent performances without themselves having had an acting background.

  Abdellatif Kechiche

  Jobs, Acting, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• That and when you're doing live action you don't normally get to see the thing before it's in production. In this case we'd go in every couple weeks and look at animatic and sketches. The way they do it - is they'll put it up on a screen and the storyboard artist who worked on that sequence will talk you through it. Kind of like a pitch session. Then they would leave and we would sit there with the directors and say 'Alright - what if we change that? What if we do that?' It's very different from live action.

  Jonathan M. Goldstein

  Couple, Artist, What If

  Source: collider.com

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• I hate to say that, but the past was much more fascinating. I don't particularly care for any of the current crop of actors. I don't particularly care for any of the current crop of directors. But I have a lot of friends who are editors, and there are a lot of technical things going on here that are interesting.

  Kenneth Anger

  Hate, Past, Editors

  Interview with Harmony Korine, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 30, 2014.

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• I'm at the mercy of others because I'm not a director. I'm not a producer. I'm not a writer.

  Julianne Moore

  Mercy, Producers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love watching audiences scream. I imagine it's the same joy that a director feels who has made a comedy when he or she is sitting at the back of a theater listening to the audience laugh. That sound of laughter is so sweet to a comedy director and that's exactly how a horror film feels when you hear the audience scream.

  Leigh Whannell

  Sweet, Laughter, Laughing

  Source: collider.com

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• To me, one of the main things that a director does is create the tone of his movie.

  Peter Sarsgaard

  Doe, Tone

  Source: collider.com

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• I like working with a first time director. I'm more likely to work with a first time director than I am a second time director.

  Peter Sarsgaard

  Firsts, First Time

  Source: collider.com

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• A big thing for me is trusting the director, so I don't need to watch playback. I feel like the director is gonna tell me whether it's right or not.

  Juno Temple

  Needs, Watches, Bigs

  Source: collider.com

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• On a lot of shows that I've done, we had the same directors, which was cool. But then, it's also great to do shows where the director changes every week because you get to see all these different personalities and see what you like dealing with better, as an actor. But, Jodie was amazing.

  Laura Prepon

  Personality, Different, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• If you don't take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Partnership, Intimate, Producers

  Source: collider.com

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• It's strange - some directors are really talented but they can be so precious when it comes to letting you be a part of it.

  Skrillex

  Strange

  "Skrillex Talks About the Making of His Sci-Fi Psychological Thriller 'Red Lips' Video". Interview with Jeremy Gordon, pitchfork.com. November 30, 2015.

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