Directors Quotes - Page 5

Being a producer, I deal with a lot of different directors, and some of them would drive me insane with all the different histrionics, and the mystique that they carry.

Matthew Vaughn

Insane, Different, Producers

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Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women.

Pedro Almodovar

My Favorite, Masters, Owners

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In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.

Cameron Crowe

Movie, Inspiring, Real

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When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.

Jacques Rivette

Film History, Certain, Young

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I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.

Alex Cox

Actors, Good Actors

Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January 2003.

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I have great respect for directors who know what they're doing.

Bill Mumy

Knows, Great Respect

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All of the directors I've worked with I have loved and would work with again. I have no favorites.

Judd Nelson

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

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Now, I have big-money offers on three movies, and I have director approval. That's kind of scary,' he says. 'No directors have been attached. That's a lot of pressure on me

Cuba Gooding, Jr.

Appreciate, Scary, Pressure

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So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.

Jodie Foster

Listening

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Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those days, artists or directors or producers, as the case may be.

Lew Wasserman

Artist, May, Cases

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Twelve years on sets watching directors, I've taken a bit from everybody and rejected a lot.

Christopher Eccleston

Taken, Years, Twelve

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel.

Jason Reitman

Movie, Jobs, Actors

"Director Jason Reitman Talks YOUNG ADULT and His LACMA Live Reading Series". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 7, 2011.

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In the end, it's acting, it's not real. But every director will tell you that you have to create conditions that create tension, because tension is what makes drama feel real.

Paul Greengrass

Real, Drama, Acting

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There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.

Sean Penn

Theatre, Excitement, Spending

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Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.

Alan Parker

People, Want, Littles

Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2000.

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All the directors that I've had the opportunity to work with are fantastic.

Will Friedle

Opportunity, Fantastic

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To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision.

Jane Campion

Ethos, Vision, Feminine

Jane Campion, Virginia Wright Wexman (1999). “Jane Campion: Interviews”, p.53, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy a director of category B, not a big director.

Claudia Cardinale

Individualism, Bigs, Categories

Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2003.

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I think drug movies free the director to make intense films

Ray Liotta

Thinking, Drug, Film

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I don't even know if I can call myself a director.

Charles S. Dutton

Knows, Ifs, I Can

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By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.

Jodie Foster

Psychology, Shooting, Firsts

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I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.

Patricia Highsmith

Want, Movie Director, Mines

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As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over.

Stanley Tucci

Design, Doe, Film

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There are a lot of directors who are knowledgeable about images, and others who aren't.

Conrad Hall

Knowledgeable

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As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors.

Chow Yun-Fat

Actors, Factories, Workers

"Working in Front of the Camera Keeps Me Alive'". Interview with Stephen Short, content.time.com. December 27, 1999.

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