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The process always starts with detailed conversations with the director, followed by a spotting session (deciding where the music goes and doesn't go in the film, and what the music should be saying or not saying) in each scene. This is followed by sending the director demos of each cue for feedback.Collection: Directors
If everyone's comfortable, you can pretty much make any kind of movie that the director wants.Collection: Directors
I'm not one of those directors who can just kind of walk away from the edit room and come back and check in.Collection: Directors
There are plenty of directors who work with the same actors over and over, many more times than I have. Like I have worked with Bill Nighy more times than I have worked with Kate, but I'm not married to Bill Nighy.Collection: Directors
It's always the script first choosing roles. [Then] whoever else is attached. I never like to be the first person attached, because I don't really trust what's going on, unless there's a really good director.Collection: Directors
It's always different, depending on the writer and the director. A collaborator like Graham Reznick delivers a fully finished piece, perfected in every way. Other writers direct the recording session and then leave quite a bit of the work to us.Collection: Directors
It's sometimes discouraging to see all of a director's movies, because there's so much repetition. The auteurists took this to be a sign of a director's artistry, that you could recognize his movies. But it can also be a sign that he's a hack.Collection: Directors
I didn't even know what a film director was. To me, Charlie Chaplin was a goofy clown, and John Ford - what? Never heard of him.Collection: Directors
I'm a control freak, so that's why I became a director.Collection: Directors
I stayed in Hamburg a few more days, and during that time I received a visit from Rolf Aldag, the sporting director at T-Mobile. He advised me to tell the truth.Collection: Directors
As a director, you have to go in with a really, really, really clear picture of what you want. That's the point of my commentaries. It's so difficult because you're the harshest critic.Collection: Directors
I don't really consider myself a horror director or a violent director at all.Collection: Directors
It is so great to go to a casting director and have them wanting to talk about the show that you are in. It's such a great icebreaker. It just makes the environment so much more relaxed.Collection: Directors
A director can come from anywhere, but having a story background, if you have nothing else, is probably a good thing to have because it's really the one tool you need.Collection: Directors
I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.Collection: Directors
I don't really consider myself a female director, and I don't want to do so for other women. Female directors are just directors.Collection: Directors
The main problem is that the Hollywood system has already made the film before the director shoots a single frame.Collection: Directors
f you're making the scene as a director, you're looking for alternatives, once you've got to that place that's very much in Rowan's [Atkins] head, to see if you can take it further, in some places. Sometimes you do absolutely know there's something there. You just feel it in your bones.Collection: Directors
As soon as an actor has faith in a director, he just goes with it.Collection: Directors
The main reason for choosing a project is not really the renown of the director that's making the project. I feel like it's the fact of an actor to constantly want to do different things.Collection: Directors
When you are completely satisfied with what you have made, you're pretty much done as a director. So when that happens, that'll sort of be the end.Collection: Directors
That's the greatest sin a director can commit; to make a film simply because he wants to make a film.Collection: Directors
(When asked what a director does) I help.Collection: Directors
Being the director is really something. It's a statement of something and you have to stand up for that. Okay, this is what I see. This is how I see the world. This is how I see cinema. And you have to be able to talk about that and explain it and be responsible.Collection: Directors
If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.Collection: Directors
One thing that is true in TV is that you do hire the directors. As the writer, it's very different than in features, where you feel like, "If I want this to be this way, I better direct it."Collection: Directors
A male director doesn't come to situations the same way that a female director would.Collection: Directors
The longer I've been a director, the less I have to 'direct.'Collection: Directors
In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic backgroundCollection: Directors
I'd love to see more women working as directors and producers. Today it's almost impossible to do it unless you are an actress or writer with power. I wouldn't hesitate right this minute to hire a talented woman if the subject matter were right.Collection: Directors
Id love to see more women working as directors and producers.Collection: Directors
You don't really audition for Hamlet; Hamlet is one of those roles that a director or producer decides you should do it.Collection: Directors
It's hard on an actor when you have to do a scene 45 times and you know damn well that three of the angles a director is shooting will never make it into the movie.Collection: Directors
When you're not gaping at Megan Fox enough to listen to what the director's saying, you can get some work done.Collection: Directors
The contemporary Japanese directors who are well-known in the West - say, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takeshi Kitano, Naomi Kawase - are mostly unknown to Japanese, particularly of the younger generation.Collection: Directors
You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern.Collection: Directors
Obviously there was Keith Haring and Robert Mapplethorpe, but Howard was on the brink of becoming a famous director - it didn't happen because he died.Collection: Directors
It doesn't matter if you work with an Oscar winner or if you work with an unknown actor. There is always a collaboration between the director and the actors, and you always have to listen as the actors have to listen to you as a director.Collection: Directors
As an actor, youre always nervous as to what a director will do with something.Collection: Directors
I always thought when I was doing more melodramatic stuff like Everwood that the directors were constantly reeling me in and stopping me from being funny. I've always tried to find a funny angle on things, and 99 percent of the time, it just doesn't work.Collection: Directors
Emil's [Nava], the video director. Originally, I was meant to do all the stuff that the puppet was doing. I just wasn't that comfortable with doing it, so he had a puppet made.Collection: Directors
I'm not sure that I'm really relevant as a director anymore. Or as a writer, either, to tell you the truth.Collection: Directors
OK, the director makes the movie. But some movies can't get made without someone like me in them.Collection: Directors
I look for a director with a script he likes a lot, but I'm probably after the directors more than anything.Collection: Directors
I love it when the director says, 'Rebel, just do whatever you want.' I'm, like, 'Yes!Collection: Directors
I'm sure there are directors who don't like to work with actors and don't know how to be sensitive to actors.Collection: Directors
On the film where I didn't get along with the director, I just decided to not speak to him.Collection: Directors
You have to be submitted for the Pulitzer, and unbeknownst to us, a choral director whom I know had submitted us.Collection: Directors
When I'm filming a kill scene [as a director], I just get happier and happier as we chop up body parts.Collection: Directors