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It's strange - some directors are really talented but they can be so precious when it comes to letting you be a part of it.
I love those films where I feel the director's confidence - where he doesn't need to overdo it with the shots and the cuts.
My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies.
I have a side of me that doesn't care. I really enjoy physical comedy, thinking of an idea and pitching it to the director.
It's harder being a woman director because on the whole women don't have husbands or boyfriends who are willing to be wives
When you do a rewrite, it's really about serving the director's vision, and what the director needs to go into that script.
I'm shy to call myself a director still. When someone says, 'What do you do for a living?' I don't know if I've earned that.
I would be a terrible director, I could never write anything. One of my great strengths is that I know all of my weaknesses.
The idea that all violence in movies is okay simply because it happens is bull. Directors and writers have a responsibility.
I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.
You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.
Directors go their whole career without being able to tell personal stories and to work with a cast as talented as they are.
Maybe if we sit out for the next few years and let Clint Eastwood get a little experience, he's going to be a good director.
Movies are certainly a director's medium, so getting the opportunity to work with really good directors is everything to me.
The first thing I ask when Im offered a part is, Whos the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles.
After directing movies, I respect any director in this world, because making a movie as a director is tons and tons of work.
Clint Eastwood is an extraordinary director because he knows the value of a buck. He knows where it will show on the screen.
The lack of women directors is a sad fact of life. Kathryn Bigelows thrilling Best Director win may help turn things around.
I don't have a favorite director just like I don't have a favorite color or I don't have a favorite food. I like everything.
You can't fix a bad script after you start shooting. The problems on the page only get bigger as they move to the big screen.
Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.
It always surprises me when I see the director's versions of films released separately, long after the film's theatrical run.
An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.
That's the main thing, looking for interesting characters, good directors, and experiences where you're growing and learning.
You can have a great script, or a great director and a bad script, and get a great movie. Nothing really guarantees anything.
I didn't want to be a director for hire. It really just took me a long time to learn how to direct and to feel up to the job.
Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal.
I've never wanted to be a fireman, in my life. I've never really wanted to grow up and be anything other than a film director.
There are only so many hilarious actors so when they cross-pollinate, people assume it's always the same actors and directors.
It doesn't matter where you make movies or what the size of the movie you make is. It's a very hard job - especially director.
Having an investor on your board of directors who is naive about public markets or finds them complex or scary is non-optimal.
Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors.
The thing about movies is if somebody has an idea that works, it's in, and I say that as a screenwriter as well as a director.
When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.
Ultimately, a more experienced director realizes that you've got to stop sometime and just move on. They're braver about that.
You have to remind casting directors out here that you don't just do one thing. There's a lot of people who do just one thing.
You don’t want to ask after the health of anyone, if you’re a funeral director. They think maybe you’re scouting for business.
You can make five massive hits in a row and still not get cast by the directors who you want to work with doing little movies.
I generally don't involve myself in giving the actors some tips on acting. At the same time, I don't do that with the director.
Malayalam industry is pretty awesome, and I will definitely do a movie in Malayalam. There are some great directors over there.
I like the conscious manipulation that a great director can have. When you're both complicit in the manipulation of an emotion.
Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.
I like to audition for good projects because if it's a good project, it's an opportunity to get in front of a casting director.
I'm not a great fan of green screen. It's not much fun for actors. It's great for directors and technical people and cameramen.
It's always interesting to see a director trying different things, and on top of it, doing it right each and almost every time.
That is a big turn-on for me, a director who knows what he's doing and what he wants, and knows when he's gotten what he wants.
There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
It's very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.
When you grow up in the [film] industry, the director is your father. You follow your father's lead, but you make your own way.
Woody's [Allen] very relaxed with the cast and likes them to do their thing and is not an over-director type. Somehow it works.