Directors Quotes - Page 19

You are the executive director and screenwriter of your life.

I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.

I owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me.

You dream as an actor's director of letting moments breathe through two-shots.

I think one of the things you have to be aware of as an actor is that if you come on the set and see the director standing there mouthing all the words while a scene is going on, that's usually a very bad sign because it means the director has already shot the scene in his head. He knows exactly the rhythm and the nuances that he wants delivered in the line and you're not going to dissuade him.

Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach.

How can you have a director that doesn't go to work with the crew every day and talk to them?

You don't pick black actors or black directors because they are black. You pick them because they are good. If you lend somebody 50 million dollars you want you're money back. You don't care if they are oppressed. You just want you're money back.

I never thought I was doing the same thing as directors like John Carpenter, George Romero, and sometimes even Hitchcock, even though I've been sometimes compared to those other guys. We're after different game.

I think that Phil Kaufman is one of the best directors that I have come across.

Twelve years on sets watching directors, I've taken a bit from everybody and rejected a lot.

You can't fake comedy - it's not like a movie, where a director can just cast a pretty face.

I always thought when I was doing more melodramatic stuff like Everwood that the directors were constantly reeling me in and stopping me from being funny. I've always tried to find a funny angle on things, and 99 percent of the time, it just doesn't work.

A director who gets $150,000 per year from a company and needs the money is not independent.

Honestly, I love television. I love the idea of going to work every day and getting to know your crew and having a rapport with your directors and having a family of cast.

A lot of student directors used to pick other students to be in their graduate films, so. I ended up doing a couple of them just for fun. Eventually, I got an agent through a friend and I did some commercials; then I got Knots Landing.

And I think being a good director is being able to be completely tyrannical and you?ve got to be an absolute dictator while at the same time, you have to listen and see everything because it can all change on a dime.

I have great respect for directors who know what they're doing.

I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm.

Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.

In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression.

Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.

It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.

I feel fortunate. I've really gotten to work with amazing talented people, and to learn from them, which is why I'm doing this. If I can work with the best director I'm going to do it.

On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre.