Directors Quotes
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Direct Quotes
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Many plays-certainly mine-are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
Thornton Wilder
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I`m so tired of hearing casting directors ask if I have a sore throat. The people who have told me that my voice is distinctive, it`s unusual...those people have always been close to my heart.
Scarlett Johansson
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I was seen as an outsider in the beginning and then an object of great envy. All the national directors wanted to be international. They would come up to me and say, If I cast Michael Caine and Sean Connery, do you think this will make it?" There was this...
Mira Nair
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You get the Oscar and you get better scripts, better actors and better directors to work for and of course your salary goes up until you make your first mistake and then you have to start from the beginning again.
Rod Steiger
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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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[recalling his arrival in Hollywood] I told them I wanted to choose my scripts and my directors myself. "But sweetheart," they said, "you`re going to make a lot of mistakes." And I told them, "You don`t understand; I want to be free to do so."
Montgomery Clift
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[on John Ford] Orson Welles was once asked which American directors most appealed to him. "The old masters," he replied. "By which I mean John Ford, John Ford and John Ford." Well, I studied "Young Mr. Lincoln," for example. As I say, John Ford had a big ...
Elia Kazan
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I came to film school in 1977 when directors like Fassbinder and Wenders were everybody`s heroes. But it was also the time that Star Wars and Close Encounters came out, and these were the seminal movies for me. Everybody is always so careful about these t...
Roland Emmerich
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I think it`s easy for directors to stay fresh more than actors, especially once an actor becomes a star. It`s hard for Russell Crowe to walk down a street or take a subway. I can fly coach.
Michael Mann
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[in a 1986 interview] Hollywood is a weird place. The film industry has changed. Business is bad. Directors are treated like bums now. This is a bad time for creative people. Hollywood is a mean place to work.
John Carpenter
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1970 Honorary Oscar acceptance speech: "You know that I may never look at this without remembering the quiet patience of directors who were so kind to me, who were kind enough to put up with me more than once, some of them even three or four times. I trus...
Cary Grant
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... all my movies are created because I`m fascinated by a subject. Sometimes I think there`s just a certain obsession about it all - when you want to do something just for the sake of it. A lot of directors are like that. I`m just very fortunate that most...
Roland Emmerich
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You have to be careful not to be upstaged by your breasts. I`ve gotten curvier as I`ve gotten older. Directors cast the men they want to be and the women they want to have.
Susan Sarandon
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[speaking about the reshoots of Superman II (1980) after changing directors] It was usually done whenever a set doubled or we had a problem with expensive actors being available. I remember we did many scenes from the Daily Planet, if not all of them, whi...
Christopher Reeve
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I feel that artistic directors are very serious about their work, they have more experience, and their expectations will be very high. About receiving an award, I don`t dare to have extravagant hopes. I am an actress that has never received an award befor...
Vicki Zhao
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You know, directors kind of want different things. Some of them think that if they just are always talking to you and keeping your spirits up and everything that it helps you, and then some leave you alone and give you your space.
James Franco
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Hell, no actor is going to tell Frank Capra how to make a picture. He has forgotten more about movie-making than most directors ever know.
Glenn Ford
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Directors never direct me. They just turn me loose.
John Carradine
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The directors that have personal, emotional feelings for me are Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini, and I`m sure there has been some influence but never a direct one. I never set out to try and do anything like them. But, you know, when you listen to a j...
Woody Allen
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I didn`t like my Bond Girl outfits. The designer was a friend of the directors and I thought they were too boring and middle-aged for my character. The right costumes are essential for getting into a part; I`ve witnessed many costume parades with grumpy o...
Diana Rigg
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[on directors Michael Winner and Ken Russell] Winner gave me my bread and Russell gave me my art.
Oliver Reed
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I`m just amazed. I`m glad to be alive, because I know what it`s like not to want to be here, and glad that young directors want to put me in fantastic films. So say no more.
Charlotte Rampling
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Although I hate auditioning. An audition, it`s in a room smaller than this and there`s producers and directors and they`ve seen 100 people, and they`re, OK. Go." And it feels strange. It`s almost like you meet a girl and someone says, "OK, have sex right ...
Andre 3000
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I can see the difficulties of making a movie. Directors and producers have to put up with a lot of rubbish from temperamental actors.
Richard Harris
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There`s only one list that`s more illustrious than the list of directors who won the Palme d`Or. It`s the list of directors who didn`t.
Quentin Tarantino
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There`s only one list that`s more illustrious than the list of directors who won the Palme d`Or. It`s the list of directors who didn`t.
Quentin Tarantino
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In the acting game, you spend a long time fighting against what the director perceives you to be. And half the time the directors don`t know.
Peter Mullan
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[on working with high-profile directors] I`m very grateful, because a lot of actors would kill to work with any one of them. It`s been a very conscious choice on my part to work with the best - even if it was taking a small supporting role. After Showgirl...
Elizabeth Berkley
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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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When studios entrust big Hollywood blockbusters to strong, intelligent directors, like Steven Soderbergh or Sam Raimi [Spider-Mans 1 and 2] or Alfonso Cuarón [the latest Harry Potter], I say `God bless `em`, because those films will have legs and might st...
Alexander Payne
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