Directors Quotes - Page 40

• As a director, I hoped that I was able to help the actors by giving them the space and the respect they need and the trust. I gave them what I always felt I needed when I was working.

  Angelina Jolie

  Space, Giving, Needs

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• There are many, many different kinds of movies and directors and styles. I don't mind that a movie looks like a movie.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Style, Mind, Different

  Source: www.discdish.com

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• As an actor, Sean [Penn] is brilliant. And he's really an excellent director, as well. We got along really well.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Actors, Brilliant, Excellent

  Source: www.discdish.com

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• What I like about being an actress is that it keeps you feminine. Being a director and producer makes you manly and very masculine and I don't like that quality in a woman. But I'll do it when the film is very close to me.

  Bai Ling

  Quality, Actresses, Film

  Disc Dish Interview, www.discdish.com. July 8, 2013.

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• [Make a sitcom] was really the idea of Executive Producer Joe Roth who owned the property over at Revolution Studios and said he was thinking about taking it to TV. And after he said that he already had [writer/director] Ali Leroi on board, and that he was going after Terry Crews, to me it was a no-brainer. I said, "Let's put this together!"

  Ice Cube

  Thinking, Ideas, Together

  "Chilling with Ice". Interview with Kam Williams, pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• It's just that the nature of being a director is being incredibly overwhelmed with getting the shots right, dealing with the locations, and then there's a two-year-old in the scene, and all that stuff - you know, there's a lot of kids in scenes.

  Jay Duplass

  Kids, Years, Two Year Olds

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Most directors do work in pairs. There's usually some form of this, sometimes it literally comes down to you both show up in the morning and one of you is like, "I'm a little tired and overwhelmed today, so I might need you to just be a little step ahead of me and speak with more confidence because I'm not quite there." So, there's quite a bit of that in other teams.

  Mark Duplass

  Morning, Team, Tired

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• A lot of solo directors have a really strong creative producer with them. Jay and I have less of a need for that because we have each other.

  Mark Duplass

  Strong, Creative, Needs

  "Jay and Mark Duplass Don’t Want ‘Togetherness’ Season 2 to Disappoint You". Interview with Liz Shannon Miller, www.indiewire.com. February 19, 2016.

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• I was so disappointed [with movie Forsaken], but maybe I hadn't talked enough with the director. I don't know. But, Kiefer worked it out. Kiefer took it and re-edited it. I don't know whether he talks about that. He's probably more discreet than I am because Jon is a friend of his. Now, it fulfills what I was hoping for, and what we were working on and doing.

  Donald Sutherland

  Enough, Forsaken, Disappointed

  Source: collider.com

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• I really like directors who give you a certain amount of autonomy because I think a lot about my characters and I think a lot about scenes and choices.

  Sarah Gadon

  Character, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In my experience, directors who are the most comfortable with themselves and confident in their work give you and everybody on the crew the freedom and the space to create. It's the people who are more insecure who feel the need to control and micromanage.

  Sarah Gadon

  Insecure, Space, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you are the writer/director especially, no one cares more about the project than you do. You know it in and out. You created it. So always listen to input but don't be afraid to veto and fight decisions that you know instinctively are wrong.

  Zoe Cassavetes

  Fighting, Decision, Care

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I'm not a feminist, but I just think it's a really cool process working with a woman as a director.

  Melanie Griffith

  Thinking, Feminist, Really Cool

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I didn't go to acting school, so it was great to be able to rehearse for a month or two, to workshop, and be with a director who even gave me acting exercises.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  School, Exercise, Two

  "The Dreamer: Charlotte Gainsbourg". Interview with Danger Mouse, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• Any film that you see is never just the director. If it's a film that you love, it's not so easy to say, "Oh it's directed by this person - that means everything that person directs is going be wonderful."

  Vin Diesel

  Mean, Wonderful, Film

  "Vin Diesel on Vin and Babylon A.D". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. August 28, 2008.

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• Wow. Ted Cruz falsely suggested Marco Rubio mocked the bible and was just forced to fire his communications director. More dirty tricks.

  Donald Trump

  Dirty, Communication, Fire

  FaceBook post by Donald J. Trump from Feb 23, 2016

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• So getting that balance between what is honoring scripture and the Word and also acknowledging the fact that by the virtue of putting it on film there's going to be a variation and adaptation, I mean, it's a fine dance and a balance. Our producers and directors have worked so hard to get that right and I'm really proud. I think it's a pretty good job.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Jobs, Mean, Thinking

  "Joseph Fiennes on Risen and Retelling Jesus' "Unsettling" Story". Interview with Hannah Goodwyn, www1.cbn.com. May 24, 2016.

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• Just someone trying to shoot in 70mm deserves the nomination, and he[Quentin Tarantino] is shooting interiors, like tight interior shots, for that matter. Obviously [Quentin] is the director and demanding the shots, but all credit for the beauty of that film [Hateful Eight] goes to the director of photography.

  Bun B

  Photography, Eight, Trying

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• I think the whole nostalgia for the forty year gap for [Sylvester] Stallone was bigger than the movie [Creed], but it's good because the movie still gets recognized with Stallone's involvement. I'm sure the director [Ryan Coogler] is still proud of his film, but it's very hard to nominate a director.

  Bun B

  Thinking, Years, Proud

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• When a director writes, there's a compulsory arbitration. You have a right to challenge any of the arbitrators, but they pick three of four arbitrators who read all the drafts with no names attached and then allocate credit.

  Harold Ramis

  Writing, Names, Challenges

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The rule of thumb for a director or producer - which prevents them from just sticking their names on everything - is that you have to contribute substantially more than 50 percent of the character dialogue and story.

  Harold Ramis

  Character, Names, Stories

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was aware of the possible biases you could get as a commercial director, like being too concerned about the technical aspects of the form rather than anything of substance. If you keep working in commercials, you can get trapped in a very superficial way of thinking. I always used commercials as an exercise for filmmaking, like going to the gym.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Exercise, Thinking, Substance

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't really think I have the personality. I am not very external. I don't want to dance on the table and do impressions. So I think that the way I approach it is really loving story. That's my first love - the words. The words and the story and how to create images. I guess I come at that as a director. I think that's much more in my personality to be a director, so that's kind of informed my acting.

  Jodie Foster

  First Love, Thinking, Personality

  "The Legend: Jodie Foster". Interview with Saoirse Ronan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• I’ve had unsatisfying experiences, but mostly it’s about communication, which is why I make an effort to talk to the director beforehand to make sure we see eye-to-eye as creative individuals. If [good] communication isn’t present, you can lose something and end up very unhappy.

  Martin Starr

  Communication, Eye, Effort

  "Martin Starr’s Star Turn". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 21, 2012.

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• When I do go to L.A., it is usually for a reason - to meet with a director or something - but I'm always so happy to go back to London.

  Douglas Booth

  London, Reason

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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