Directors Quotes - Page 26

• 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

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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

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• This film [ Blue is the Warmest Color] actually is the result of me talking with my producer Vincent [Maraval]. I gave him a bunch of ideas and then Vincent helped guide me and develop this particular film. I enjoy that rapport to have somebody else help guide me in my choices for the next film. The poetic way of looking at it is which project is going to choose me as a director.

  Abdellatif Kechiche

  Blue, Color, Talking

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• I had been at the director's workshop for women at the AFI, which at the time was a great thing to do. I had always meant to direct, and for a variety of reasons that are hard to explain, I never did. I produced many things - there'll be people who tell you I directed through them - and of course I wrote. It took a divorce, a move back to New York and a kind of "now I can do anything" to say, "I really want to do this."

  Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal

  New York, Moving, Divorce

  "Naomi Foner and the Importance of Being Earnest". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 22, 2014.

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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

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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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• Also a good director and good dialogue. That's very important because you're bringing the words to life. So it's very important for an actor to have good dialogue.

  Julia Garner

  Important, Actors, Dialogue

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• It's incredibly easy as a director to be egotistical. Of course, it is because you have 200 people on set every day listening to your every word and whatever you say goes, and that can be slightly corrupting. And actually, to be a good director, you have to take ego out of it, because hopefully what you've done is surrounded yourself with brilliant people. Let them be brilliant and you just shepherd that and marshal that and hopefully guide it however you can, but definitely not to the extent that you're overbearing.

  Dan Mazer

  People, Ego, Listening

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• We knew, very early on, that we had to be very, very clear that directors need to speak to actors and actresses and be very clear about what is expected, and find out whether they're comfortable with that. Wardrobe has to be in place. There have to be checks.

  Michael Sheen

  Needs, Actors, Actresses

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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

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• Definitely my favorite cut is the one that got put out. That's my favorite version of the film, the one that I put in theaters. That's my directors cut, there's no question about it.

  Fede Alvarez

  Cutting, Film, My Favorite

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• I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Common, Produce

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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

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• As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Cutting, Finals, Firsts

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• With every movie I produce, I learn something. I watch the directors. It's like the relationship you have with your children. I'm there to learn from my daughters. They are the perfect spirits.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Daughter, Children, Perfect

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• There's a bunch of directors that I really admire, and Australian ones as well. It would be nice to do a film at home.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Nice, Home, Would Be

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• I hope, my career is never predictable. And my interests are diverse in that way. I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting I take to the pen and I write something I want to direct. And then when I'm tired of taking on too much responsibility as a director I then look for an acting gig. And I've made it very clear that I'm interested in voiceover work. I mean, I'm always looking for voiceover gigs. I love that.

  Lake Bell

  Mean, Responsibility, Writing

  "Actress Lake Bell, first female voice of Apple ads, is taking over Hollywood one project at a time". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.businessinsider.com. November 30, 2015.

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• As the director, you're meant to be critical and you are, so there are loads of things. But the thing is, the way I look at it is, to try to get some measure of success, it's dangerous to look at financial or critical success, or positive response as a measure.

  David Slade

  Trying, Way, Looks

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• One of the things about working for an old school studio like Warner Bros. is that there is an institutional culture and institutional memory, in terms of production design, camera work, and directors who understand how to do this kind of thing.

  Bruno Heller

  Memories, School, Design

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• A director can come from anywhere, but having a story background, if you have nothing else, is probably a good thing to have because it's really the one tool you need.

  Dan Scanlon

  Needs, Tools, Stories

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• I never thought about writing the part where the pirates get on board the ship. I wasn't interested in that. I'm not an action director. I'm sure that other guys could do it a lot better. I couldn't put my heart into it.

  Tobias Lindholm

  Writing, Heart, Guy

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• I always like playing the bad guys. They have more fun! I want a director to come up to me and say, "You can't get too weird!" That's a good thing. I loved hearing that. Let me play. I like to play around.

  James Badge Dale

  Fun, Play, Guy

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• Unlike a lot of British directors, I hadn't done any theater. But, I had a great mentor who said, "What you're looking for is exactly the same thing you've done in your documentaries, which is moments of emotional truth.

  Susanna White

  Emotional, Mentor, Done

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• David Petraeus, the best known American general of his generation. After commanding the American war effort in both Iraq and Afghanistan, he was serving as CIA director when he stepped down suddenly following revelations that he`d had an extramarital affair. That same investigation that turned up evidence of the affair also eventually turned up evidence that General.
  Petraeus had passed classified information to his mistress.

  Rachel Maddow

  War, Iraq, Effort

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• A sportswriter's life means never sitting with your wife or family at the games. Still working after everyone has gone to the party... Digging beneath a coach's lies, not to forget those of athletic directors and general managers and owners of pro teams. Keeping a confidence. Risking it.

  Dan Jenkins

  Lying, Team, Party

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