Directors Quotes - Page 38

• If you're onstage and you're improvising and nothing's happening, people are racing for the door. But the director can go shopping later and pick up pieces and moments and insert them.

  Gary Cole

  Doors, Shopping, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you look at what Ben Affleck has gone on to do, as an actor and as a director, it's extraordinary. But if you look back at his career, I don't think it's surprising. From Good Will Hunting on down, the guy is a monster talent, and I think talent wins out, in the end. There's always the ebb and flow of any career, but I think talent wins out, in the end.

  Joseph McGinty Nichol

  Winning, Thinking, Hunting

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a huge Hayao Miyazaki fan. He might be my favorite director of all time - the beauty that he sees in the world and the attention to detail. I try and focus on that while making music: trying to use as many real instruments as possible, have it feel as tactile and tangible as possible.

  St. Lucia

  Real, Focus, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Look out for each other. I think the more we support each other as a community, the more successful we will be. I'm a part of Film Fatales, a collective of women directors who meet to share advice and provide support for each other's projects. I think the more we can build an old girls' network to rival the old boys' network, the better off we will be.

  Sian Heder

  Girl, Successful, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• When I was growing up in the '50s, I had never heard of a "woman film director," so I did not consider it as an option. But I was fortunate that in the late-'60s and '70s, because of the feminist movement, women were stepping into all sorts of careers that had been closed to them in the past and film was one of them.

  Chris Hegedus

  Growing Up, Past, Careers

  "Sundance 2016 Women Directors: Meet Chris Hegedus – ‘Unlocking the Cage’". www.indiewire.com. January 23, 2016.

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• When you're not gaping at Megan Fox enough to listen to what the director's saying, you can get some work done.

  Peter Jacobson

  Done, Foxes, Enough

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I am blessed to live and work in [France,] a country where women filmmakers are by and large not unfairly treated. So I wouldn't have much to contribute regarding issues faced as a female director.

  Anne Fontaine

  Country, Blessed, Issues

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• No matter what, when you major in theater arts whether you want to write or be a director or design scenery or whatever, when you are a freshman at UCLA then - I guess it's still the same way - you had to take an acting class.

  Carol Burnett

  Art, Writing, Ucla

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Acting is always more fun for me.I love being a part of a story, I love collaborating, I love working with different directors. If I just directed more and more, it would lessen the opportunity to work with all these big directors that I've had the opportunity to work with.

  John Krasinski

  Fun, Love Is, Opportunity

  "John Krasinski Is Looking To Push The Limits In Hollywood". Interview with Leigh Blickley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 29, 2016.

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• My roommate in college in Austin, Texas, was Wes Anderson. Wes always wanted to be a director. I was an English major in college, and he got us to work on a screenplay together. And then, in working on the screenplay, he wanted my brother, Luke, and me to act in this thing. We did a short film that was kind of a first act of what became Bottle Rocket.

  Owen Wilson

  Brother, College, Texas

  Interview with Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 15, 2016.

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• Film is definitely a director's medium. They're responsible for the look and everything, and you're a part of that process as an actor, and you try to contribute to the story. But I think it might sound a little pretentious for me to say I think of myself as an artist. I think of myself as a creative person.

  Owen Wilson

  Artist, Thinking, Creative

  Interview with Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 15, 2016.

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• The directors are always sharp. It's true.

  George Clooney

  "‘Hail, Caesar!’ Cast on the Coen Brothers Process, Slapping George Clooney, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 3, 2016.

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• I'm just trying to choose interesting, quirky projects or things with interesting directors or just movies that have a lot of people I like attached to them so I know I'm going to have a good time.

  Douglas Booth

  People, Interesting, Quirky

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You can have a great script, or a great director and a bad script, and get a great movie. Nothing really guarantees anything.

  Douglas Booth

  Guarantees, Scripts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sometimes things are nothing on paper, but a genius director turns it into something amazing.

  Douglas Booth

  Genius, Paper, Sometimes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• More often than not, if you've got a good director and a good script you can't really go wrong.

  Douglas Booth

  Scripts, Good Directors, Ifs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you're a music director, you have people constantly sending you music and trying to get - I mean, I'm sure you have the exact same thing when you do a magazine - that you have people constantly wanting to get your attention. And I think I learnt a lot from being on that end of things, when I was trying to book the tour, the first tour we did.

  Chris Baio

  Book, Mean, Thinking

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• [Director] Peter Wallerstein does great work rescuing sea life along the shores of LA, and I helped raise money for sanctuaries such as Chimp Haven, who are now taking in over two hundred medical lab chimps released from government-funded medical testing labs.

  Alison Eastwood

  Government, Sea, Two

  "Alison Eastwood: Growing up in Hollywood, keeping grounded, and helping animals in need". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that you have a script and it's very linear.

  Paul Greengrass

  Views, Way, Scripts

  "Director Paul Greengrass Interview GREEN ZONE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 11, 2010.

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• The choice that you really have is that you can go and work for TV which is so badly paid that you have to really churn them out which I think probably helps you develop certain muscles. I'm not sure though that you really want to have those muscles as a director.

  Robert Schwentke

  Thinking, Choices, Want

  "Director Robert Schwentke Interview THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 10, 2009.

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• Well, there's a great Marlon Brando quote that to do something well you have to spiritually marry your director. You have to be making the same movie they are in that you have to try to help their imagination be better, and more full, and more fully realized, but you can't have a different imagination because then you end up - and you see this a lot in movies - where it feels like they were making five different films.

  Ethan Hawke

  Imagination, Trying, Different

  "Ethan Hawke Talks Regression". Interview with Josh Lasser, www.ign.com. February 4, 2016.

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• I really love the experience of moving things around, in terms of being a director.

  Johnny Depp

  Moving, Term

  "Johnny Depp on His Varied Career, Jack Sparrow, and “Torturing” Leonardo DiCaprio". collider.com. February 6, 2016.

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• I don't move until an actor is happy, but it was very important to me as a so-called "first time director" to keep the machine moving. It was especially important to me to keep it moving and not be some kind of precious writer-director.

  William Monahan

  Moving, Important, Machines

  Source: collider.com

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• As first time director, though, you're like a new officer coming up to be in charge of very serious veterans, and you're always going to have guys looking at each other for the first day until they realize you're not screwing around.

  William Monahan

  Guy, Firsts, Serious

  Source: collider.com

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• You evolve in the ways in which you are precious. When you are the director, you are also continuing to write on the floor as you go along.

  William Monahan

  Writing, Way, Evolve

  Source: collider.com

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