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Image of John Keltonic
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.
- John Keltonic
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Image of Jeff Fahey
If everyone's comfortable, you can pretty much make any kind of movie that the director wants.
- Jeff Fahey
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Image of Lynn Shelton
I'm not one of those directors who can just kind of walk away from the edit room and come back and check in.
- Lynn Shelton
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Image of Len Wiseman
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.
- Len Wiseman
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Image of Christopher Mintz-Plasse
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.
- Christopher Mintz-Plasse
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Image of Larry Fessenden
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.
- Larry Fessenden
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Image of Pauline Kael
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.
- Pauline Kael
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Image of Lloyd Kaufman
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.
- Lloyd Kaufman
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Image of Kevin Munroe
I'm a control freak, so that's why I became a director.
- Kevin Munroe
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Image of Patrik Sinkewitz
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.
- Patrik Sinkewitz
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Image of David Slade
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.
- David Slade
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Image of Ryuhei Kitamura
I don't really consider myself a horror director or a violent director at all.
- Ryuhei Kitamura
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Image of Nathalie Emmanuel
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.
- Nathalie Emmanuel
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Image of Dan Scanlon
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.
- Dan Scanlon
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Image of James Lipton
I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.
- James Lipton
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Image of Alante Kavaite
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.
- Alante Kavaite
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Image of Mike Leigh
The main problem is that the Hollywood system has already made the film before the director shoots a single frame.
- Mike Leigh
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Image of Oliver Parker
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.
- Oliver Parker
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Image of Katia Winter
As soon as an actor has faith in a director, he just goes with it.
- Katia Winter
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Image of Song Kang-Ho
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.
- Song Kang-Ho
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Image of Takashi Miike
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.
- Takashi Miike
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Image of Krzysztof Kieslowski
That's the greatest sin a director can commit; to make a film simply because he wants to make a film.
- Krzysztof Kieslowski
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Image of Krzysztof Kieslowski
(When asked what a director does) I help.
- Krzysztof Kieslowski
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Image of Mathieu Demy
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.
- Mathieu Demy
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Image of Akira Kurosawa
If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
- Akira Kurosawa
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Image of Zak Penn
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."
- Zak Penn
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Image of Liz W. Garcia
A male director doesn't come to situations the same way that a female director would.
- Liz W. Garcia
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Image of Hannes Holm
The longer I've been a director, the less I have to 'direct.'
- Hannes Holm
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Image of Mario Lopez
In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background
- Mario Lopez
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Image of Ida Lupino
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.
- Ida Lupino
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Image of Ida Lupino
Id love to see more women working as directors and producers.
- Ida Lupino
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Image of Chukwudi Iwuji
You don't really audition for Hamlet; Hamlet is one of those roles that a director or producer decides you should do it.
- Chukwudi Iwuji
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Image of William H. Macy
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.
- William H. Macy
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Image of Peter Jacobson
When you're not gaping at Megan Fox enough to listen to what the director's saying, you can get some work done.
- Peter Jacobson
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Image of Hirokazu Koreeda
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.
- Hirokazu Koreeda
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Image of Ann Macbeth
You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern.
- Ann Macbeth
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Image of Aaron Brookner
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.
- Aaron Brookner
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Image of Baran Odar
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.
- Baran Odar
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Image of Kevin Spacey
As an actor, youre always nervous as to what a director will do with something.
- Kevin Spacey
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Image of Chris Pratt
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.
- Chris Pratt
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Image of Ed Sheeran
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.
- Ed Sheeran
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Image of Billy Bob Thornton
I'm not sure that I'm really relevant as a director anymore. Or as a writer, either, to tell you the truth.
- Billy Bob Thornton
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Image of Jack Nicholson
OK, the director makes the movie. But some movies can't get made without someone like me in them.
- Jack Nicholson
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Image of Jack Nicholson
I look for a director with a script he likes a lot, but I'm probably after the directors more than anything.
- Jack Nicholson
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Image of Rebel Wilson
I love it when the director says, 'Rebel, just do whatever you want.' I'm, like, 'Yes!
- Rebel Wilson
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Image of Anton Yelchin
I'm sure there are directors who don't like to work with actors and don't know how to be sensitive to actors.
- Anton Yelchin
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Image of Elizabeth Taylor
On the film where I didn't get along with the director, I just decided to not speak to him.
- Elizabeth Taylor
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Image of Stephen Sondheim
You have to be submitted for the Pulitzer, and unbeknownst to us, a choral director whom I know had submitted us.
- Stephen Sondheim
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Image of Eli Roth
When I'm filming a kill scene [as a director], I just get happier and happier as we chop up body parts.
- Eli Roth
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