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I feel that I will be more of a feature director, and I will go away completely from videos. I want to do features and have written several of them. I'm looking to be more like a Steven Spielberg. Chris Stokes

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So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of his own that he can say, 'oh yeah - that's a great point.' And you never know; often you can help far more than you think you can, because there's so much more that he's juggling than an actor. Christian Bale

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My dad was a theater actor, so I would follow him backstage. And my mom was a casting director. The moment I heard the applause and realized it would get me out of school, I was hooked. Christian Slater

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To be honest, the real reason I did 'Drive' was because of Nicolas Winding Refn, the director. Christina Hendricks

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Music is contagious and everywhere and democratic, and that's what drew me in. I was interested in acting and being a director, but one of the things that bored me about theatre was that it was not accessible to everyone. Christine and the Queens

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I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium. Christopher Eccleston

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A director, I forget who, told me that it takes 30 years to make an actor. And I believe that. You have to learn your craft, learn your trade - and also you have to live a life and experience things. Cillian Murphy

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I'm very instinctive when I choose my roles, and usually, the number one thing has to be the director. Clare-Hope Ashitey

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There's nobody who loves being around actors working more than David Mamet, especially actors bringing his tremendous dialogue to life. I've never seen a movie director who was happier to be directing a movie than Dave. Clark Gregg

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And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy a director of category B, not a big director. Claudia Cardinale

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You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director. Clint Eastwood

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In my career as a director, there's always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: 'What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?' At that time you have to say: 'OK, forget that and just go ahead.' Clint Eastwood

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I liked Vittorio De Sica a lot, and I got to work with him once in a segment movie. He was a great director. He was a very charismatic character and a guy I watched a lot when he was directing. Clint Eastwood

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I say 'spectacle' rather than 'story' because in the end, it isn't the intricacies of narrative that draw us to horror films. When it's there, I'm grateful for the director's skill at telling an exquisitely nuanced tale filled with psychological insight, but it is the spectacles that I take home with me. Clive Barker

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I was told I was fat in the modeling world, and a director on a shoot told me I needed to lose weight. The J-Lo booty wasn't popular then, and I wanted to be the perfect Hollywood girl - tall, blonde and skinny. I couldn't do the 'tall' because I was 5'2, and I couldn't do the skinny, either. Coco Austin

There's a funny thing that, in film now, everybody thinks that the director does everything, and in TV, everybody thinks that the writer does everything, and I'm quite comfortable with that as a director. I don't mind that. Colm McCarthy

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As a director, you want to work with great writers. Colm McCarthy

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The best thing as a director is being able to be part of the thing that's so cool about a TV show, like running a character arc over six episodes or multiple series. Colm McCarthy

Being on a show like 'Fear the Walking Dead,' I started to learn more about camera work, learn more about the way the crew operates, and had more of a stronger opinion on how I think a television director can operate in the healthiest way. Colman Domingo

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