Top 1200 Director Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
As a director, I only know how to do it one way, is to pour my heart and soul into everything.
I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.
I'm not a feminist, but I just think it's a really cool process working with a woman as a director.
More than anything else, I love to act and leave the rest to my director.
I think that in order to be a film director, one has to be a warrior who shouldn't be defeated by the daily onslaught of problems.
I always knew that all it would take was for the right director to put me in a movie.
I'm always surprised when some director says, 'When I saw this film, that changed my life.' I don't have that.
My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.
My father Kamran Khan was a successful producer, director and actor in B-grade films.
I think a first-time director always has to convince a lot of people that they're ready to do it.
John McTiernan, the director, is not Ingmar Bergman. He does action-adventure movies.
As a director, you're given a tremendous apparatus to work with, and very great talents are available to you.
I think a good director casts a film so that the actors bring a lot to the table.
To me the director's job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.
The director, of course, was Bob Fosse. But again, I worked with my father to prepare for the role.
I'm not sure that I'm really relevant as a director anymore. Or as a writer, either, to tell you the truth.
As a stunt guy, you become a mini-director. You're talking to actors about performance.
My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.
I've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director.
Ultimately when I throw myself behind a movie, I have to really believe in that director's vision.
Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.
I've had a couple opportunities where I've been on the other side of the audition process as a director.
In terms of using my degree, I started working for YP; I signed on as director of communications.
The first-time director thing is just another label somebody puts on you.
I liked 'Robocop' because of the director, and it was an intelligent, big-action studio movie.
When I turned director, I enjoyed the challenge of making an actor perform to his best.
Before you can steal fire from the Gods you gotta be able to get coffee for the director.
The writer and the director are ultimately responsible for what is portrayed and glorified in a film. Then comes the producer.
I don't want the director to have to make any decisions except to say "action" and "cut."
As a director, you're looking for ways to tell the story with the whole image and not primarily dialogue.
If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
Despite a good subject if the director is not up to the mark, the execution can go wrong.
If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing.
Honestly, one of my favorite things about a director is when they understand what an actor brings to their role.
You always want to please your choreographer, director. Dancers are just that way.
I guess you could say I'm like a film director but my movies have only one frame.
You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life.
When I make films, I work with Mike Leigh, who's the most prolific director in England.
If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
You can't fake comedy - it's not like a movie, where a director can just cast a pretty face.
The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer
I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm.
You dream as an actor's director of letting moments breathe through two-shots.
The foreign-language Oscar is something that doesn't go to the producer or the director; it goes to the country.
Now that I'm not a puppet for some director, the Hyneman is free to explore the world at large.
David Cromer, from Chicago, I think is the most gifted young director in America.
When you're really working well with a director then you can be as outrageous as you like and so can he. And there's no worry about it.
I owe my whole career as a storyteller to my father. He was an actor/director/producer and teacher.
You can be a smarty-pants director, but that won't matter if the movie doesn't work emotionally as well as intellectually.
I think it's important that a director be able to know his characters inside and out.
My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.
I think, when you're a director, you get sucked into your project whether you like it or not, right?
I really love the experience of moving things around, in terms of being a director.
Were I not married to the director, I'm not sure I'd know anything about the 'Underworld' sequel.
I try to add as much as I can before a director says, 'Harold shut up!'
I believe the director's primary role is to create an atmosphere where his company can be created.
In director V K Prakash's 'Poppins,' I'll reprise the same role I did in its Kannada version.
Considering that I'm British and I talk the way I do, I love it when a director takes a chance on me.
I started off as an assistant director in Mani Ratnam's 'Ayudha Ezhuthu' and 'Yuva.'
Music is just one of the tools a director has with which to paint and I think it's one of the most effective.
