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I knew I wanted to be involved with theater or film in any way I could, either as a writer or director or actress. Greta Gerwig

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For me, the French new wave is Truffaut and Rohmer. Godard I sometimes have trouble with because he's very much of a director's director. I feel Truffaut is such a humanist, and I always go in that direction. Greta Gerwig

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On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all. Griffin Dunne

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When you start with Super 8, you are everything. You're the DP, the sound man, the effects guy. And what I started understanding, by working for other people, is that the best type of director is someone who rose through the ranks. Guillermo del Toro

As a director, I design every movie to be true to itself, and damn it if they like it, and damn it if they don't. Guillermo del Toro

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I think that for the actors, the last thing that they want is a director that's not watching, a director that goes 'Okay, it sounded good to me,' and they were doing something else or preoccupied with something else because they were worried about the light changing. Gus Van Sant

Every time you say yes to a film there's a certain percentage of your yes that has to do with the director, a certain percentage to do with the story, a certain percentage with the character, the location, etc. Guy Pearce

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At drama school, a casting director asked the class to walk round the room one at a time, and we had to imagine who they might be. The two before me were described as a doctor and a businessman, but when it came to me, they said homeless person. That was when I thought I'd better do something about my appearance! Gwilym Lee

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As an actor, my No. 1 focus was to be on the same page with the writer, director, and producers. Haaz Sleiman

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I don't have a director. The audience directs me. Hal Holbrook

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The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and hopefully have something, then I wrestle with sounds and picture all day long. But the ideas usually come from a more obscure place, like a conversation with a director, a still somebody shows you, or whatever. Hans Zimmer

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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director. Harold Prince

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I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work. Harold Ramis

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The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but no one was about to give me that opportunity on Animal House. Harold Ramis

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'Analyze This' is a good movie because Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal are really good. But without the material to put on the play, of course, they couldn't be good. For me, it starts with the writing. I always think that the writer is doing the vast majority of the director's work, in a sense. Harold Ramis

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I'd love to do another 'Indiana Jones.' A character that has a history and a potential, kind of a rollicking good movie ride for the audience, Steven Spielberg as a director - what's not to like? Harrison Ford

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One of the problems with 'SNL' is that, if you tried to adlib, the director would put you off camera and off the mic, so only you would know that you ever did it. The director always directed to the script; he wasn't listening to what you were doing. He was calling shots whilst looking at the page. Harry Shearer

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'Vicky Donor' or 'Madras Caf,' John's films have been path-breaking. I have full faith in the script of my movie, and my director, too, is a debutante. I like the conviction with which they work, and that gives me a lot of confidence. Harshvardhan Rane

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I don't think there is a movie that I've been on that I wasn't sure I could direct it better. But certainly also, as a director of photography, I have to serve the movie in whatever way I can as a filmmaker. Haskell Wexler

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In my own life, I've written scripts that I want to direct, so I would love to take my own creativity in a way where I could tell my own story. That does inspire me, the idea of becoming a director. Heather Graham

I think I have more of a director's brain than an actor's brain, in a way. Helen Hunt

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