Directors Quotes - Page 7

• Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to.

  Alexis Bledel

  Stress, People, Answers

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. October 8, 2002.

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• I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Ideas, Preparation, Done

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• If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.

  Michael Caine

  Movie, Actors, Stage

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• Personally Im very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Collaboration, Behind The Scenes, Very Happy

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• I had no plans to be a director.

  Mike Figgis

  Plans

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• You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience.

  Steven Bochco

  Giving, Blueprints, Visuals

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• Every director is completely different.

  Miranda Otto

  Different

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• I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game.

  Bob Balaban

  Thinking, Games, Acting

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• You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Believe, Artist, Important

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• I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started.

  Preston Sturges

  Night, Ukulele, Shooting

  Preston Sturges, Sandy Sturges (1991). “Preston Sturges by Preston Sturges: His Life in His Words”, p.294, Simon and Schuster

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• A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it.

  Michael Bay

  Pearls, Want, Pressure

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

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• I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like the story.

  Elena Anaya

  Stories, Want, Scripts

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• Every casting director I've met is a woman.

  Cameron Diaz

  Casting, Mets, Casting Directors

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• If it's stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it's film, THE most important person is the director. The director says where the camera goes.

  Brad Dourif

  Artist, Two, Important

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have worked with some great directors.

  Dabney Coleman

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• I mean, I've sold all these scripts and nothing's been made. Studios have closed, stars have died. I had a director find Jesus. And the pictures just don't get made.

  Bruce Vilanch

  Jesus, Stars, Mean

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• I would love to have a part opposite a great actor - like, say, Pacino or De Niro or Hoffman. And to work with a top director. That's my dream.

  Jon Lovitz

  Dream, Opposites, Actors

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• How can you have a director that doesn't go to work with the crew every day and talk to them?

  Don Bluth

  Crew

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• You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you do and knows how to push you and bring out the best in you.

  Matthew Modine

  Praying, Get Involved, Knows

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• Every part I've done has been for one reason or another-money, or the part, or the director, or the location. I'd like to get one thing that's all of those combined.

  Joan Severance

  Done, Location, Reason

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

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• The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.

  Trevor Nunn

  Ghouls, Decision, Finals

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• Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.

  Sam Waterston

  Heart, Play, Matter

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• If I feel the part is right, and I know that the producers and the director want me, I'd go for broke. Always.

  Anne Archer

  Want, Broke, Producers

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• I think Van Sant is the most important American director we have. He takes the most risks. He's just pure to me.

  Michael Pitt

  Thinking, Risk, Important

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• How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Movie, People, Details

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