Director Quotes
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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
Alfred Hitchcock
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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
Alfred Hitchcock
Subject: Movies QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says.
Chuck Palahniuk
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Actors become actors because they loved entertaining their family by putting on the lampshade and dancing around as a kid, ... That`s not my personality. For me, the fun part of making movies is seeing it as a director sees it. I like the architecture of ...
Jodie Foster
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I work with the director and the other actors, but I figure that is about two inches of something that is a yard long. The other 34 inches is what I have to do myself. So far I have not conflicted with a director or writer or anybody else. But I know basi...
Geoffrey Lewis
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I work with the director and the other actors, but I figure that is about two inches of something that is a yard long. The other 34 inches is what I have to do myself. So far I have not conflicted with a director or writer or anybody else. But I know basi...
Geoffrey Lewis
Keywords: 34 :: about :: actors :: and :: anybody :: basicall :: but :: conflicted :: director :: do :: else :: far :: figure :: have :: inches :: is :: know :: long :: myself :: not :: of :: or :: other :: so :: something :: that :: the :: to :: two :: what :: with :: work :: writer :: yardSource: imdb.com
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There are occasional food fights. We had Friday-night grape night. Because when I had the scene with Josh and the wine, we started picking up the plastic grapes and throwing them at each other. By Friday night we were so tired, and the director couldn`t c...
Holly Marie Combs
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There`s been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn`t have, but on the negative side, financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can`t count the ways a director`s vision is...
Lili Taylor
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Being a leading man on a film set under the direction of somebody like Dickie Attenborough [Richard Attenborough, director of Gandhi (1982)] is very empowering, and you have to be extremely careful how you use that power.
Ben Kingsley
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On paper, "Once Upon a Mattress" looked good. Sarah Jessica Parker and the director and the designers -- everyone involved was reputable and had had huge successes in the past. What`s odd to me is that I could tell from the first day of rehearsal that it ...
Jane Krakowski
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I always feel that I am the advocate for my character. More than anyone else on the set, including the director. I`m there to protect my character, in a way.
Holly Hunter
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I was embarrassed by the director, Blake Edwards, who looked at me and said, `what am I supposed to do with THAT?`. I was a little hurt to be referred to as an inanimate object at an audition. I was told by my agent that a number of big stars won`t work w...
James Cromwell
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[on John Huston] John Huston, the director, is a genius and like a lot of geniuses he can be erratic. But his perception, charm, and warmth are so extraordinary that you want to give the best of you. He has an incredible curiosity about life. While cuttin...
Stacy Keach
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I was asked by the director Wong Kar-Wai to be in his new film. It didn`t seem like I would be the most obvious person for him to ask, but for some reason he did, and for some reason I dove in head first before I knew anything about the project. I watched...
Norah Jones
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Every actor, every director, everybody needs an Oscar. You have to have that little statue in Hollywood, or else you`re nothing!
Rita Hayworth
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[On Orson Welles] He was not an extravagant director. I mean, `Warren Beatty` can spend $60 million making Reds (1981) a half hour too long and it crosses nobody`s lips that that`s too much money.
Charlton Heston
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[On being a director]: "I don`t like working with me. I would punch myself in the mouth if I had to take my direction."
Ron Perlman
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Director Clarence Brown once called her "the greatest pantomimist that ever drew breath. She was a natural-born comic; you could turn on a scene with her and she`d go on for five minutes without stopping or repeating herself."
Norma Talmadge
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I think Fruit Chan is an interesting director because he could offer a purely commercial attraction with artistic subjects and personalities. (on director, Fruit Chan).
Andy Lau
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I think Fruit Chan is an interesting director because he could offer a purely commercial attraction with artistic subjects and personalities. (on director, Fruit Chan).
Andy Lau
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(on being typecast) If you look at the careers of people like Anthony Quinn, Cagney, even Tommy Lee Jones, they all were cast as villains. There comes a certain point in your life, in your late 30s, early 40s, when suddenly that can change. Maybe a direct...
Robert Davi
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(1975 quote) "I first started thinking about being an actor when I was in college at the University of Missouri. I auditioned for a television play, and the director, who has some professional New York credits, encouraged me to pursue acting. In college I...
Tom Berenger
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I`m about to stop filming! I`m a guy that is leaving. And for once, I`m not drunk! I`ve got nothing to lose. I did 170 films, and I`ve got nothing else to prove. I`m not going to keep up like this for ever. I finish in style with film director Thomas Gilo...
Gerard Depardieu
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Sam is the only person I`ve ever physically threatened on a set. - On working with director Sam Peckinpah.
Charlton Heston
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You don`t have to like an actor to do a scene with him. You don`t have to like a director. But it`s just better if you do. And I think, you know, you`ve got to begin that with respect.
Russell Crowe
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[on winning the Best Director Oscar for Saving Private Ryan (1998)]: Am I allowed to say I really wanted this?
Steven Spielberg
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[on working with director Preston Sturges] At the end of this shoot, he said, "It`s been a pleasure working with you" and I said, "I wish I could say the same about you." I don`t like to be that way, but he was terrible, very cruel.
Fred MacMurray
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[on winning the Best Actor Academy Award for Vita è bella, La (1997) after already accepting the Best Foreign Language Film award as its director] "Thank you. This is a terrible mistake, because I used up all my English!"
Roberto Benigni
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I felt very intuitive that my particular personality and nature were like Nova. Automatically, I`d say that`s about 80% of the part. The director, the producer and the writer talked with me about her, and they described her as "sub-human." We hadn`t reall...
Linda Harrison
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I am not comfortable about kissing or nudity. I am clear about what I want. I`ll work only with good directors who`ll offer me two-dimensional roles. The director and the role are most important. (Movie Mag International, September 2004)
Aishwarya Rai
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