Directors Quotes - Page 35

• TV directors just aren't sexy for some reason, Although, you know, Rob and Kim [Manners] are very sexy in my eyes.

  David Duchovny

  Sexy, Eye, Tvs

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• The only episode which was completely my idea was for Mitch Pileggi, the actor who portrays Skinner, the Assistant Director of the FBI. He appears often in the series, but only for a few scenes. You know virtually nothing about him. I wanted him to have an episode that was his alone, so I wrote Avatar for him. He even has a scene that's pretty . . . hot [knowing smile]. He was very happy.

  David Duchovny

  Knowing, Ideas, Assistants

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• You have to be submitted for the Pulitzer, and unbeknownst to us, a choral director whom I know had submitted us.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Knows

  "Maestro of Broadway". The Academy of Achievement Interview in Los Angeles, California, www.achievement.org. July 5, 2005.

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• I love Ron Howard, he's a wonderful director, incredibly prepared. But I have to criticize my performance in that movie. It all took place in one day. My character was having a bad day, so she's having a bad day throughout the whole movie. But this was a comedy, and I think I was too serious, too dense. Yes, I think that describes my failure there.

  Glenn Close

  Character, Bad Day, Thinking

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

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• A film can be big or small - I have to just fall in love with it. To connect with the character, the script, and the director. Sometimes they say to you, 'You should do that for your career; it's a big thing, people will go and see it,' but I wouldn't be able to, because my heart wouldn't be in it. I would drive people quite mad.

  Eva Green

  Falling In Love, Character, Heart

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• I think it's very important to recognize talent in all facets of filmmaking. Making a movie is such a lengthy and intense experience, so it's wonderful to honour actors, directors, producers and all crew members who put so much hard work and passion into a project.

  Eva Green

  Hard Work, Passion, Thinking

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• I give everything to my work, and I like complex roles, characters that aren't obvious. I've been very lucky so far, and I'm dreaming of working with directors like Jane Campion, Susanne Bier and the Dardennes. But the gods will decide.

  Eva Green

  Dream, Character, Giving

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• I'm trying to work only with established, respected directors. I took a lot of bad scripts and worked for a lot of lazy directors, and it was discouraging to go to the screenings and see that the director had added nothing, the editor had added nothing, there was nothing to see.

  Michael Caine

  Editors, Lazy, Trying

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• I'm not in a position where I get to pick and choose roles. I usually go on auditions in long lines and embarrass myself in front of casting directors, and with a lump in my throat and my ears burning, I walk past reception and smirking actors as I go to the parking garage and go back on the highway.

  Henry Rollins

  Past, Long, Roles

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• Miloš Forman is a great director; Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.

  Twyla Tharp

  Wonderful, Brooks

  "The High Priestess of Creative Movement". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• John Huston was the kind of director that totally left you alone. Not every actor always does it right, every time, but most of the time he was re-directing someone. He was making tight adjustments, and not even in terms of interpretation because he knew that by the time that the character had been filmed... well, he got it right when he cast you.

  Theodore Bikel

  Character, Doe, Actors

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• As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.

  Billy Crystal

  Character, Actors, Moments

  "Billy Crystal for 'Monsters Inc.'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. November 1, 2001.

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• Actors, writers, directors - that triumvirate of creativity - we have to rely and trust each other to be able to get to the final product.

  Bryan Cranston

  Creativity, Actors, Able

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• Since signing with Universal, I have been working closely with Gary Ross, the director, producer and screenwriter. We have spent many hours on the phone, and I've been sending him information and items that have been useful to the writing process.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Writing, Phones, Information

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• The best and most talented directors - and I think it goes for people too - are the most confident in giving room to their actors and trusting them.

  Ari Graynor

  Thinking, People, Giving

  "Exclusive: Ari Graynor Talks LUCKY, THE SITTER and WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER?". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 15, 2011.

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• Because I've always aspired to direct and produce, I've literally worked with about 200 directors and countless producers, so what I appreciate is how, through osmosis and through actually asking questions and through people offering wisdom, there's a lot in there.

  Malik Yoba

  Asking Questions, Offering, Osmosis

  Source: collider.com

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• I've worked with some absolutely wonderful directors who bring out the best in me and I know I can trust, and then I've had the opposite experience, too. I've had both experiences, and obviously one is good and one is not good. When they're great, it's good. When they're not great, it's not so great.

  Kari Matchett

  Opposites, Wonderful, Knows

  Source: collider.com

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• Nothing is worse for me, as an actor, than when I walk on a set and the director goes, "Okay, you're going to be standing here, the other person is going to be standing here, and you're going to move to there and then do the scene." That doesn't help actors.

  Eric Balfour

  Moving, Actors, Helping

  Source: collider.com

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• Stepping out of the director's chair completely and into a scene as an actor was weird. It was more excitement about directing than anything, but I was on a high from being a director and enjoying that process so much that going back to being an actor was almost secondary because I really was loving directing.

  Eric Balfour

  Actors, Excitement, Scene

  Source: collider.com

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• Unless you're a directing producer of a television show, for the most part, the director comes in one week to direct and episode, and then leaves. I'd much rather produce television and occasionally direct an episode of a show I'm producing, then just come in as an outside director.

  Eric Balfour

  Television, Week, Episodes

  Source: collider.com

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• I have to be strong about my own tastes because I think that's what the director's job is.

  Andre Øvredal

  Strong, Jobs, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• The core of a director is the person's tastes in what elements go together and how they go together. It's a puzzle.

  Andre Øvredal

  Together, Elements, Taste

  Source: collider.com

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• It happens a lot, but I also think of it as not so much like being abandoned by a director 'cause they're worried about a technical aspect, but I think actually that's my job.

  Amy Ryan

  Jobs, Thinking, Causes

  Source: collider.com

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• When you think of a particular director, you think you would have liked to be with them on one particular film and not necessarily on some other one.

  Clint Eastwood

  Thinking, Film, Particular

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2003.

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• I don't need to work right away. I'd rather wait for something really good; to be excited about a role, or a director, or a project.

  Nina Dobrev

  Waiting, Needs, Roles

  "Nina Dobrev’s New Chapter". Interview with Michael Peña, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 8, 2015.

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