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When I left my parents' home when I was 19, I went to the University of Florida, and within 24 hours was in the mental health department. And within 20 minutes, I was being told by the director there that they didn't have what I needed there.
Darrell Hammond
Health
Home
Director
Mental Health
Parents
Minutes
Mental
Hours
Within
Left
Department
Being
Florida
Needed
University
As the director, to have the opportunity to work with actors of the calibre of David Oyelewo is just fantastic and special.
Dave Filoni
Work
Director
Opportunity
David
Just
Fantastic
Special
Actor
John Parsons, the gay art director at 'Vogue,' really started my career.
David Bailey
Art
Gay
Director
John
Vogue
Really
Started
Career
And I didn't grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that was always the goal - to be a novelist, not a screenwriter. And I think, again, if I didn't have the novels, maybe I'd be much more frustrated by not having directed yet.
David Benioff
Me
Director
Think
Directed
Having
More
Writer
Always
Goal
Up
Maybe
Grew
Wanting
Screenwriter
Again
Frustrated
Much
Novelist
Grow
Grow Up
Novels
With the commissioning of new schools undertaken by a local director of school standards, decisions will be fair and transparent, rooted in the needs of the local community. The admissions code and the role of the adjudicator will also be strengthened to provide fairness for all children.
David Blunkett
Needs
Director
School
Will
Community
Local
Local Community
Admission
New
Fair
Also
Schools
Fairness
Undertaken
Provide
Role
Children
Decisions
Rooted
Transparent
Standards
Code
Strengthened
When I started crediting myself as writer and director, I saw that as a political act.
David Cage
Myself
Director
Political
Saw
Writer
Political Act
Act
Started
For example I don't work with William Hurt the same way that I will work with Viggo. They're different guys and they work in different ways. So a good sensitive director has his general style and technique and personality that he uses but you don't impose that on the actors.
David Cronenberg
Work
Good
You
Director
Hurt
Personality
Will
Example
Style
Way
Ways
William
General
Guys
He
For Example
Impose
His
Same
Different
Sensitive
Uses
Actor
Different Ways
Technique
The process of making a movie has expanded in terms of effort and time for the director, doing commentaries for the DVD for example, finishing deleted scenes so they could be on the DVD, and doing things like a web blog.
David Cronenberg
Time
Director
Example
Web
Deleted
Scenes
Finishing
Could
Like
For Example
Terms
Making
Doing
Blog
Effort
Movie
Process
Things
I've turned down jobs because I've said, 'Honestly, I can't find my way in. I can't do it. I love you, as a director. I think the script is good. You deserve better than I think I can do.'
David Duchovny
Love
Good
You
Director
Better
Down
Think
Honestly
Way
Jobs
Find
Because
Said
Than
Love You
Script
Turned
Deserve
My favorite parts of work as an actor and a director are those unplanned mistakes that do happen, because it's like catching lightning in a bottle. It's the best part of what we do.
David Duchovny
Work
Best
Director
Mistakes
Those
Favorite
Best Part
Bottle
Part
Catching
Lightning
Like
Parts
Because
Happen
Actor
As a director, I start with the visual.
David Farr
Director
Visual
Start
I never went to work on a movie set until I was a producer and director.
David Frankel
Work
Director
Never
Until
Movie
Movie Set
Producer
Set
Motion pictures are a director's medium. Broadway is a writer's medium. Television is a producer's medium. I picked a medium I could control.
David L. Wolper
Director
Control
Medium
Broadway
Television
Could
Writer
Picked
Pictures
Motion
Motion Pictures
Producer
I enjoy the acting, but I didn't plan on that. It fell into my lap, and I'm having a lot of fun with it, but I'm definitely moving towards directing because I'm naturally a writer, and I think a good director edits, writes, and has acted a little bit. He's done a little bit of everything, and that's what I'm trying to do.
David Labrava
Good
Director
Enjoy
Think
Everything
Bit
Definitely
Directing
Having
Writer
Writes
He
Towards
Fell
Because
Edit
Lot
Trying
Done
Little
Moving
Little Bit
Plan
Acted
Acting
Lap
Naturally
Fun
Good Director
As a director, just to be able to jump in to do something that's different, and to explore comedy and be challenged by that, is great. Some directors never get that opportunity.
David Leitch
Great
Director
Comedy
Opportunity
Able
Some
Something
Directors
Never
Jump
Get
Just
Different
Explore
Challenged
You have to be very flexible and understand as a director, especially as a writer/director, that you cannot hang onto stuff really hard. You have to be ready to accept those happy accidents and to anticipate that they are going to happen and capitalize on them.
David M. Evans
You
Director
Happy
Accidents
Those
Onto
Stuff
Accept
Understand
Ready
Anticipate
Very
Hang
Going
Happen
Cannot
Them
Really
Capitalize
Flexible
Hard
As a director, when you embrace a project, you try to understand as much as you can about its world, and you do that by embracing and engaging with people who are in that world. Then it's down to your best instincts, which is what most directing is about anyway.
David MacKenzie
Best
You
Director
People
World
Try
Down
Project
Embrace
Embracing
About
Directing
Instincts
Most
Understand
Anyway
Which
Then
Much
Your
Engaging
Who
I travel light as a director. I don't have monitors on my set.
David MacKenzie
Travel
Director
Light
Set
I think it's disrespectful to go onto a set without some clear idea of what your intentions are, because then you're hanging the director out to dry.
David Milch
You
Director
Think
Out
Some
Onto
Clear
Idea
Dry
Because
Without
Go
Hanging
Intentions
Then
Your
Disrespectful
Set
As a director, your work is finished only when it's on the screen. But I will always be an actor who occasionally directs. And no, I have no interest in directing myself. I wouldn't be able to concentrate on both jobs at once.
David Morrissey
Work
Myself
Director
Will
Finished
Once
Jobs
Able
No Interest
Directing
Only
Both
Concentrate
Occasionally
Always
Screen
Interest
Your
Who
Actor
The ebulliently sharp mind of 'White Christmas' director Walter Bobbie made me tremble and strive in the same breath. The deceptively 'simple' dialogue of David Ives, asking every actor to just. say. it. Float it on the breeze; it doesn't need 'explanation,' just energy and truth.
David Ogden Stiers
Truth
Christmas
Me
Director
Simple
Mind
Made
Energy
Breath
White
Every
Tremble
Say
Strive
David
Sharp
Dialogue
Same
Just
Explanation
Asking
Breeze
Float
Actor
Need
I've enjoyed my time in the game, whether it be managing Luton in the top flight, taking Spurs to Wembley or, as director of football, pinpointing players such as Jermain Defoe, Paul Robinson and Robbie Keane with real sell-on value.
David Pleat
Time
Game
Director
Value
Top
My Time
Football
Taking
Robinson
Real
Spurs
Managing
Whether
Paul
Flight
Enjoyed
Players
I'd worked in Clockwork Orange with Stanley Kubrick and since Stanley was such a prestigious director this opened all sorts of doors for me - one of them being Star Wars.
David Prowse
Me
Director
Doors
Prestigious
Opened
Since
Sort
Kubrick
Clockwork
Orange
Being
Them
Worked
Wars
Stanley
Stanley Kubrick
Star
Star Wars
I think I'm a very very nice director. Very supportive, very nurturing. I definitely try to challenge my actors but I think I'm very supportive.
David Schwimmer
Director
Try
Challenge
Nurturing
Nice
Think
Definitely
Supportive
Very
Actor
I would say it's not as hard as writing, because when you're a writer, you walk right into the pit all by yourself, but when you're a director, there are at least 80 people who scream, 'Don't do that!' when you make a mistake.
David Seltzer
You
Director
Mistake
Yourself
People
Writing
Walk
Say
Would
Writer
Make
Because
Least
Pit
Scream
Hard
Who
Right
Certainly there is a lot of collaboration, but there is also a lot of clarity that has to be had in the vision that you have for the film when you come in as the director. Without that, there's no bullseye to be aiming for.
David Slade
You
Director
Vision
Aiming
Collaboration
Clarity
Had
Come
Also
Without
Lot
Certainly
Film
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