Directing Quotes
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Direct Quotes
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Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it`s not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people`s eyes.
John Ford
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Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it`s not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people`s eyes.
John Ford
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[on directing "Maximum Overdrive"] I didn`t get the job because I went to film school. I got the job because I`m Stephen King. If you become famous enough, they`ll let you hang yourself in Times Square with live TV coverage.
Stephen King
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Regarding his commitment to directing Jarhead (2005) without a personal soldiering background: "This is new territory to me, but I hadn`t spent two days in American suburbia when I directed American Beauty (1999). I only knew the script had an unusual and...
Sam Mendes
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Directing non-actors is difficult. Directing actors in a foreign language is even more difficult. Directing non-actors in a language that you yourself don`t understand is the craziest thing you can possibly think of. But I would do it again in a minute.
Alejandro Iñárritu
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Directing non-actors is difficult. Directing actors in a foreign language is even more difficult. Directing non-actors in a language that you yourself don`t understand is the craziest thing you can possibly think of. But I would do it again in a minute.
Alejandro Iñárritu
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Directing non-actors is difficult. Directing actors in a foreign language is even more difficult. Directing non-actors in a language that you yourself don`t understand is the craziest thing you can possibly think of. But I would do it again in a minute.
Alejandro Iñárritu
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I feel like directing is an innate talent.
Jordana Brewster
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Of all the things I`ve done in life, directing a motion picture is the most beautiful. It`s the most exciting and the nearest than an interpretive craftsman, such as an actor can possibly get to being a creator.
Laurence Olivier
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[On the shooting for his writing/directing debut Nil by Mouth (1997)]: I set aside three weeks for rehearsals. Those long scenes are like a play. But I wanted things loosely structured, more like jazz. Though there was very little improv on screen, someti...
Gary Oldman
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I learn a lot from acting, but it`s not my natural way. I can`t help but write; I do it all the time. It`s a condition of being for me. I think I am a writer, but professionally I feel drawn to and suited for directing. As far as producing, I like to faci...
Mary Masterson
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Movie directing is the perfect refuge for the mediocre.
Orson Welles
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I`m interested in directing movies about situations that I`ve lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I`ve come to believe in.
Jodie Foster
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Directing is the provenance of younger guys. When I broke into film, I had no specific genius. I was just young. That`s how I did it. The studios feel that movies are all about a youth movement, and they always have. That`s why Orson Welles got to make Ci...
William Friedkin
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[on directing] No "mise en scène" has the right to be repeated, just as no two personalities are ever the same. As soon as a "mise en scène" turns into a sign, a cliché, a concept (however original it may be), then the whole thing - characters, situation,...
Andrei Tarkovsky
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[after directing Marilyn Monroe for the second time in Some Like It Hot (1959)] I have discussed this with my doctor and my psychiatrist and they tell me I`m too old and too rich to go through this again.
Billy Wilder
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[On directing and working for film studios] "They hire you and suddenly they don`t trust you. And you say `Well, why did you hire me?` and they say `We can`t tell you.`"
Rob Zombie
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I look for an interesting and often times, fresh character. Something different that what is done all the time or than I`ve done recently. I look at who is directing. Those two variables as well as a third, which is the content and the quality of the scre...
William Baldwin
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(On how he got started in acting) "I was about 21 when I started. I dropped out of law school to go to film school -- the idea of practicing law for my whole life seemed a little boring. I was doing more directing stuff to start with, until a student mate...
Matthew McConaughey
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The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.
John Huston
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On Stephen King (jokingly): "We have a joke now - because the first two films I directed were period prison movies - that my directing career will stall unless he writes another period prison story" -- Frank Darabont, Creative Screenwriting
Frank Darabont
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Ten, 15 years ago, Sly, Arnold, those guys, were well-built; of course, they had to act and find good scripts, but today action heroes don`t have to be Mr. Muscles. What really helps a guy to become an action hero today is the directing of the movie. All ...
Jean-Claude Van Damme
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I always like to think of the audience when I am directing. Because I am the audience.
Steven Spielberg
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(On his fourth writing/directing effort, the `Sidewalks of New York`): "I hope people watch this movie and still see New York as the greatest city in the world. I certainly do."
Edward Burns
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I`m not a preacher, and I`m not a pastor. But I really feel my career was leading me to make The Passion of the Christ (2004). The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just directing traffic. I hope the film has the power to evangeliz...
Mel Gibson
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[after directing The French Connection (1971)] Each picture I`ve done so far has been for different reasons. The Birthday Party (1968), for instance, was purely a labor of love. I wanted to do [Harold Pinter]. Others were to advance my career, to get bett...
William Friedkin
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An acting career usually has about a shelf life of ten years before people get sick of seeing you. It`s a good thing to have a job to fall back on and I really do enjoy directing.
George Clooney
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[when asked if he has disappointed his conservative fans by directing Million Dollar Baby (2004)] Well, I got a big laugh out of that. These people are always bitching about "Hollyweird", and then they start bitching about this film. Are they all so mad b...
Clint Eastwood
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(On being a black actor) "I have friends, African American actors, who`ve had more of a struggle; hopefully they`re starting to see some air and light now. But in my directing career, in my acting career, in my producing career, I haven`t been bound by a ...
Forest Whitaker
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Now that I`m directing is where I`ve felt how difficult it is. Out of 200 or so movies made last year, only seven were directed by women. There`s been an enormous leap of women producers and heads of studios, but strangely enough, those women haven`t give...
JoBeth Williams
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