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Image of Stanley Tucci
Sometimes you can't even find the director on a movie set. Sometimes you don't want to find the director on a movie set.
- Stanley Tucci
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Image of Amanda Seyfried
There are a lot of scripts that you can like, but rarely are there directors attached when you're in development with something and that's stressful.
- Amanda Seyfried
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Image of Todd Solondz
I love working with actors. If you cast the right person in the right part at the right time, they make you look like a better writer and director than you really are.
- Todd Solondz
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Image of Al Pacino
I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn't want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
- Al Pacino
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Image of Al Pacino
Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
- Al Pacino
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Image of Michelle Pfeiffer
If I really want to do something, I'll go in and do whatever the director feels that he needs me to do.
- Michelle Pfeiffer
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Image of Ellen Page
I've never done a movie in that genre, and I love a lot of those movies. I watched the director's [David Freyne] short film [The First Wave], which I loved. And the script was just so good. He's found this way to tell a new story.
- Ellen Page
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Image of Kathryn Bigelow
I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.
- Kathryn Bigelow
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Image of Naomi Watts
It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
- Naomi Watts
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Image of Robert Redford
As a director, I wouldn't like me as an actor. As an actor, I wouldn't like me as a director.
- Robert Redford
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Image of Twyla Tharp
Miloš Forman is a great director; Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.
- Twyla Tharp
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Image of Guillermo del Toro
I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.
- Guillermo del Toro
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Image of Guillermo del Toro
If you don't take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
- Guillermo del Toro
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Image of Natalie Portman
As a director you have to - you don't have the option of saying, "I'm not watching this."
- Natalie Portman
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Image of Denzel Washington
I know, as an actor, I don't like sharing everything with the director. And it's fine if they don't with me.
- Denzel Washington
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Image of Martin Scorsese
I'm not a Hollywood director. I'm an in spite of Hollywood director.
- Martin Scorsese
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Image of Julia Stiles
I like a director that encourages me to be playful. I don't really like being restricted or controlled by a director.
- Julia Stiles
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Image of Steven Soderbergh
If I'm a director and I read a script and I say yeah I really want to do this, I would never walk away because the deal wasn't very good - that I wasn't getting paid very much or that the chances that I would see anything on the back end were remote because of the financial waterfall and the way it's structured. I would never use that as a reason not to do something.
- Steven Soderbergh
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Image of Amy Poehler
Ang Lee's been nominated for best director for "Life of Pi," which is what I'm going to call the six weeks after I take this dress off.
- Amy Poehler
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Image of Ai Weiwei
Somehow, we [ Tan Dun and director Chen Kaige] were all privileged at the time; we could be outside of China. But at the moment, we had no sense of what the future was going to be like.
- Ai Weiwei
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Image of Susan Sarandon
The directors I consider really great have the ability to recognize when something's going in an unexpected direction and see it as a bonus and be able to go with it, as opposed to locking down what they thought was going to happen.
- Susan Sarandon
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Image of Donald Trump
Hillary Clinton is guilty, of all the things that Director [James] Comey stated at his press conference and Congressional hearings, and far more. He stated many things, but it's far more and he knows that.
- Donald Trump
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Image of Louise Hay
Love who and what you are and what you do.
- Louise Hay
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Image of Denzel Washington
I'm not interested in being a celebrity; I'm interested in being a better actor and a better director.
- Denzel Washington
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Image of Barack Obama
I do not talk to the FBI directors about pending investigations [on Hillary Clinton].
- Barack Obama
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Image of Frank Ocean
The work is the work. The work is not me. I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films. Even though it's my voice, I'm a storyteller.
- Frank Ocean
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Image of Jeanne Moreau
I know there were things emanating from me. I was not aware of what attracted all these directors to me.
- Jeanne Moreau
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Image of Tom Stoppard
Sometimes directors feel a script needs something, but they're not sure what it is, so they show it to a friend; if the friend is a writer, he ends up kicking around with that script for a while.
- Tom Stoppard
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Image of Oliver Stone
I love films. I love fiction films, too. I do. I love making them, but it has to be the right one. Hopefully, I'll never become a director for hire. It's horrible to make a film that you're not really interested in.
- Oliver Stone
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Image of Michael Sheen
We knew, very early on, that we had to be very, very clear that directors need to speak to actors and actresses and be very clear about what is expected, and find out whether they're comfortable with that. Wardrobe has to be in place. There have to be checks.
- Michael Sheen
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Image of John Waters
I never rewatch the great films of my favorite directors because I'm afraid they won't hold up.
- John Waters
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Image of Guillermo del Toro
When you work with a great director, you can have a great partnership.
- Guillermo del Toro
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Image of Liv Ullmann
It is tough to be a woman. Also as an actor, but more so as a director. And even more today, when distributors and producers are looking at different kinds of films and maybe not necessarily what a woman would want to do.
- Liv Ullmann
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Image of Deepak Chopra
Become the director, producer, choreographer of your own story
- Deepak Chopra
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Image of Jessica Chastain
I've actually been given a great gift. When I walk into an audition with a director, I'm carrying no baggage. They haven't seen me in anything, even though I've done nine films.
- Jessica Chastain
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Image of John Hurt
The first film is everything you want to say and how you want to say it. Lots of directors will do that and do it really well, but the second film is not so easy.
- John Hurt
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Image of Jackie Chan
Every time I make an American film I just trust the American director and American writer. Myself, I would never make this kind of film. For me, those kinds of films are ridiculous. They don't make sense.
- Jackie Chan
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Image of John Hurt
[Alfred] Hitchcock was very interested in the image on the screen.As is any good cinema director. That is the language they speak. It is not literature, it is images on screen.
- John Hurt
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Image of John Hurt
I'd say the film to avoid is a director's second film, particularly if his first film was a big success. The second film is where you've really needed to have learned something.
- John Hurt
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Image of John Hurt
I've done lots of films with first directors, so it's not unusual for me.
- John Hurt
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Image of John Hurt
I thought ['Sailcloth'] was a terrific script. Elfar Adalsteins, the director, is bound to be a director we'll hear from, and the whole thing was really enjoyable.
- John Hurt
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Image of Mark Mothersbaugh
This is the fourth movie that I've done with this set of director-writers and I've learned to trust them at this point, because actually I started on Lego before they did.
- Mark Mothersbaugh
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Image of Steve Buscemi
I don't blame any director for wanting to do something more commercial. That's all part of the business. I certainly have done it, as an actor.
- Steve Buscemi
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Image of Felicity Jones
I've been very lucky. Directors I've worked with have been very amenable to changes.
- Felicity Jones
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Image of John Hurt
From John Huston to Fred Zinnemann and Richard Fleischer and all those great American directors.
- John Hurt
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Image of John Hurt
I'm very director oriented.
- John Hurt
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Image of Julianne Moore
I'm at the mercy of others because I'm not a director. I'm not a producer. I'm not a writer.
- Julianne Moore
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Image of Reince Priebus
[Donald Trump] has confidence in Director [James] Comey. We have had a great relationship with him over the last several weeks. He's extremely competent.
- Reince Priebus
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Image of Channing Tatum
There's only a few directors that can do what Emmerich does on an international scale and on an action scale.
- Channing Tatum
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