1465 Director Quotes for You to Enjoy

I have gone to Albany constantly in my capacity as budget director, because I don't think the way the transit authority works with the City of New York is very appropriate. Joe Lhota

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I understood that I was not the best director in the world nor the worst director in the world. I realized that there is a very mysterious element to what works and what doesn't work in the theater. And it's good to know that from the beginning. Joe Mantello

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I think, as written, 'Assassins' simply acknowledges the very human need to be acknowledged. As director, I've got to put aside any particular biases or prejudices that, as a moral human being, this is not an appropriate or acceptable way to get what you want. Joe Mantello

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I learn a lot as a director from acting in other people's films and just in general. Joe Swanberg

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I want to try and be as involved in the art of filmmaking as possible. I feel that the only way to really do that is to take on as many roles as possible, whether it be as an actor, an editor, a director, a cinematographer. Joe Swanberg

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I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad. Joe Wright

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Usually, I don't want to sit down and listen to the director gas on about his movie. I just can't actually imagine myself sitting down and having that much to say. Joel Coen

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Sometimes I think being an actor is like being a dog for a director; it's like they throw a stick, and you want to fetch it and bring it back to them. You want a pat on the head for it. Joel Edgerton

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Jose Padilha is a wonderful director. Joel Kinnaman

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I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew. John Boorman

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The truth is that filmmaking is not really an actor's medium; it's really a director's medium, so all I can really control is the character that I'm playing. So I try to look for characters that are interesting and engaging and different than what I've done before and hopefully it becomes a good movie. John C. Reilly

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A disk unbeknownst to the director can go to the producer in another city or in another office and that producer can edit behind the director's back much easier than in the old days. Since these dailies are now put on videotape, more kinds of people have access to dailies. John Frankenheimer

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Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that's continually trying to erode that. John Frankenheimer

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I mean, this whole digital revolution is really eroding the director's importance on a movie because, number one, just from a practical standpoint, with floppy disks and the ability to put all of the film onto a disk, more people have access to the movie. John Frankenheimer

I think that you can't make a movie without a script. But you also can't make movies without actors. You also can't make movies without technicians. And there has to be just one person in charge of everybody, and to me that one person is the director. John Frankenheimer

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I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has. John Frankenheimer

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The first thing is that we're being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these groups are trying to diminish the importance and strength of the director. They're trying to do it through both frontal and side attacks. John Frankenheimer

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The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized. John Frankenheimer

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There are so many effects and so many things that are done digitally now that it's so hard for the director to really control the process, because there are more and more experts that come in. John Frankenheimer

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When you're a director, you really live whatever you do. John Lasseter

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I grew up in Texas City, Texas. I didn't know anybody who was a director or whose parents or grandparents were directors. I met somebody from a nearby town one time whose father had been to the moon - it was far more likely to be an astronaut than it was to be a writer or a director. John Lee Hancock

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