Directors Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• Id love to see more women working as directors and producers.

  Ida Lupino

  Producers

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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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• 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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• 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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• I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.

  Jane Haddam

  Art, Years, Editors

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• In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc.

  Lukas Haas

  Moving, Challenges, Vision

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director.

  Famke Janssen

  Jobs, Men, Two

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• A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.

  Douglas Sirk

  Hollywood, Wanted, My Time

  "The Essentials: Douglas Sirk", www.indiewire.com. April 26, 2013.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Jim Brooks is a very powerful director and it was a lot of intense work.

  Tea Leoni

  Powerful, Intense, Brooks

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

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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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• Obviously in Art of Noise, I'm just part of the group, and when I do film scores, it's always in collaboration with the director and other people involved.

  Anne Dudley

  Art, People, Groups

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• The job of the director is to suggest two plus two. Let the viewer say four.

  Ernst Lubitsch

  Jobs, Two, Four

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• I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.

  Harold Ramis

  Done, Claims, Percent

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• Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.

  Lena Dunham

  Mean, Waiting, Stories

  "Lena Dunham’s Feminist Week: From SNL to SXSW" by Inkoo Kang, www.indiewire.com. March 11, 2014.

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• Feeling unsure and lost is part of your path. Don't avoid it. See what those feelings are showing you and use it.

  Louis C. K.

  Editors, Feelings, Comedian

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• I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script, know the truth and the reality of it. That's very important.

  Robert Wise

  Truth, Reality, Thinking

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• Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied... That's why they can keep on working. I've been able to work for so long because I think next time, I'll make something good.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Movie, Thinking, Film Directing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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