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Image of A. O. Scott
ADMIRABLY BOLD. There's something grand about the film's sincerity and the intensity of its emotions and something fresh and bold about the way director Gray uses the conventions of romantic melodrama.
- A. O. Scott
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Image of Francis Ford Coppola
A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.
- Francis Ford Coppola
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Image of Kurt Russell
If Quentin Tarantino is your writer-director then you're going to learn the words and your gonna learn why they're the words. You're gonna learn why they're the best words to say.
- Kurt Russell
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Image of Laura Vandervoort
I didn't know [director] Aaron Woodley at all, but I knew I wanted to be a part of [ The Entitled ].
- Laura Vandervoort
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Image of Chad Lowe
Adrian Lyne is such an incredible director.
- Chad Lowe
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Image of Richard Ayoade
A writer/director is a tough thing to gauge when someone hasn't directed a movie before. You just don't know. Sometimes it will be a great script that's written beautifully, and then the director who has also written it does not have the facility to translate it.
- Richard Ayoade
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Image of Adam Driver
I always found something strangely paternal about the director-actor relationship. Actors want so much approval.
- Adam Driver
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Image of Michael Cera
I kind of end up getting caught up in whatever the rhythm of the movie is and how open the director is to changing things in the moment or finding it in rehearsal.
- Michael Cera
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Image of John Gofman
In truth, Edward Teller ran the Livermore Lab, but for public purposes he liked it better to be known as only an associate director
- John Gofman
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Image of Paul Bettany
I wanted to know as the director how the actors wanted to tell this story I wanted to know what they thought.
- Paul Bettany
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Image of Jeff Wall
I guess you could say I'm like a film director but my movies have only one frame.
- Jeff Wall
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Image of J. Hoberman
David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation.
- J. Hoberman
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Image of Phil Ramone
The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.
- Phil Ramone
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Image of Jean Dujardin
In many cases for an actor it's a comfortable position to be in. But it's harder to fail as a director.
- Jean Dujardin
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Image of Dick Powell
The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you dont have to shave or hold your stomach in anymore.
- Dick Powell
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Image of William Wyler
[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.
- William Wyler
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Image of Eric Balfour
As an actor, most of the time, you only have so much say in how, what and where things go. As a director, you really get to paint a bigger picture. You have many more brushes to use.
- Eric Balfour
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Image of Eric Balfour
Unless you're a directing producer of a television show, for the most part, the director comes in one week to direct and episode, and then leaves. I'd much rather produce television and occasionally direct an episode of a show I'm producing, then just come in as an outside director.
- Eric Balfour
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Image of Eric Balfour
Stepping out of the director's chair completely and into a scene as an actor was weird. It was more excitement about directing than anything, but I was on a high from being a director and enjoying that process so much that going back to being an actor was almost secondary because I really was loving directing.
- Eric Balfour
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Image of Adam Rapp
I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't matter.
- Adam Rapp
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Image of Stacey Snider
I'm still confounded by how few female directors there are. I don't get it.
- Stacey Snider
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Image of Gemma Arterton
It's a surreal thing because you are there and made up and dressed up as if you're making the film. You do the scene, which is going to be in the film, and I met him [Daniel Craig] and I'm working with the director, and so it is different to just a normal audition.
- Gemma Arterton
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Image of Lee Daniels
As a film director and as film actors, you get used to a certain rhythm that's slow. But with TV, it's hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry. It's a different pace. So, it's about adjusting to the pace. It's not meant for everybody.
- Lee Daniels
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Image of John Carradine
Directors never direct me. They just let me loose.
- John Carradine
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Image of Ciaran Hinds
I know I don't go looking for directors.
- Ciaran Hinds
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Image of John Cameron Mitchell
I love when a director says, "I don't know."
- John Cameron Mitchell
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Image of John Cameron Mitchell
I love British female directors lately.
- John Cameron Mitchell
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Image of David Wain
I hope I don't just do the exact same thing my whole life. I also feel like it's really hard to make comedy. It's almost impossible for comedy filmmakers and directors to stay relevant as they get older.
- David Wain
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Image of Stephen Daldry
I'm not really a director for hire. You read these scripts and go, 'This is a really great script, but Paul Greengrass would make this so much better than me.' I usually say, 'I know who would be good for this. It's not me.
- Stephen Daldry
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Image of Christine Vachon
In film producing, there is an inherent tension between the director, the money and the producer, and that's what keeps it flowing and honest and accountable.
- Christine Vachon
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Image of William Monahan
I'd been working so hard making the film that I hadn't even emotionally processed the fact that I was a director.
- William Monahan
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Image of Bong Joon-ho
I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine'.
- Bong Joon-ho
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Image of Alfred Hitchcock
To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.
- Alfred Hitchcock
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Image of Lorenzo di Bonaventura
It's so hard to find a director who, when you look at their body of work, you like everything.
- Lorenzo di Bonaventura
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Image of Jensen Ackles
As an actor, I look at scenes much differently than I would look at them as a director, and I never realized that until it actually happened.
- Jensen Ackles
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Image of Gideon Glick
It's a lucky circumstance when you get to usher in new work, because you are able to ask the playwright and the director (who in a new work is always in dialogue with the playwright) an unlimited amount of questions.
- Gideon Glick
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Image of Nadine Labaki
There are a lot of female directors in Lebanon but we can't really talk about a true film industry, it's still very small. But we do have a few female directors.
- Nadine Labaki
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Image of David Ayer
The hardest thing, as a director, is that it's never right. Nothing you do is ever right. It's never exactly how you envision it. Making a movie is about making it better.
- David Ayer
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Image of Tom Ellis
I wanted to work on a cable show and with a writer/director because that's a much more fulfilling and freeing experience, as an actor.
- Tom Ellis
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Image of Joshua Michael Stern
As a director, you just have to kind of like just get through the first project before starting on the next one.
- Joshua Michael Stern
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Image of Woody Harrelson
Any movie's only as good as the director.
- Woody Harrelson
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Image of Joel Bakan
Dodge v. Ford still stands for the legal principal that managers and directors have a legal duty to put the shareholders' interests above all others and no legal authority to serve any other interests - what has come to be known as "the best interests of the corporation" principal.
- Joel Bakan
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Image of Letty Aronson
Woody's [Allen] very relaxed with the cast and likes them to do their thing and is not an over-director type. Somehow it works.
- Letty Aronson
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Image of Jackie Speier
If the director of the department doesn't even know what the privacy policy is, we are in trouble.
- Jackie Speier
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Image of Paul Schneider
I'm just happy when directors make a movie that is really sentimental but without being maudlin or saccharine or too much like Chewels gum. I don't want to be involved in a movie that's too much like a piece of Chewels.
- Paul Schneider
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Image of Paul Schneider
You can't have a director say, "Just be you"; you have to have an aim. It's like when you throw darts, you have to know where the bullseye is. You can't just say, "No no no no no, drop the darts. Just stand. We're going to film you." You have to get there indirectly. You have to have me doing something, and then you can get "me."
- Paul Schneider
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Image of Michael Sucsy
Any director will tell you, no matter how big his budget, that it's always the budget and the day count.
- Michael Sucsy
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Image of Christine Swanson
On a film set, we're all glorified troubleshooters, really, as directors. It's not if a problem arises. It's when.
- Christine Swanson
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Image of Kate Baldwin
Even with revivals, I dont really pay attention to previous incarnations. I always just go with the script and with the director and am willing to treat it as brand new.
- Kate Baldwin
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