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And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.
Nicolas Roeg
Director
Learning
Thought
Become
Think
Cinematography
Later
Without
How
Craft
Anyone
A good director is not an expert in anything in particular. A good director just knows a little bit about everything.
Nicolas Winding Refn
Good
Director
Everything
Bit
About
Particular
Knows
Just
Anything
Expert
Little
Little Bit
Good Director
I love Malcolm Lee and jumped on the opportunity to work with him as a director.
Nicole Ari Parker
Work
Love
Director
Opportunity
Him
Malcolm
Lee
I had a casting director tell me to be blacker.
Nicole Byer
Me
Director
Tell
Casting
Had
Cinema is a director's medium, so you're saying, 'What do you want?' Being an actor is about adapting - physically and emotionally. If that means you have to look great for it and they can make you look great, then thank you. And if you have to have everything washed away, then I'm willing to do that too.
Nicole Kidman
Saying
Great
You
Director
Cinema
Thank You
Adapting
Too
Medium
Everything
Willing
About
Physically
Emotionally
Look
Make
Thank
Being
Want
Then
Means
Washed
Actor
Away
Jon Scoffield was an incredible director and producer at ATV. I met him when I was 30 and he made great things happen in my career. He's still alive, but we're no longer in touch.
Nigel Lythgoe
Great
Director
Great Things
Made
Met
Incredible
Alive
Touch
Jon
He
Longer
Him
Still
Happen
Producer
Things
Things Happen
Career
In Germany, actors tend to be more laid-back and take orders from the director: 'Tell me what you want.' I'm more into collaboration. So are Americans.
Nina Hoss
Me
You
Director
Collaboration
Tell
More
Tend
Take
Germany
American
Want
Orders
Actor
There is a variety of different kind of producers. I'm a very hands-on, creative producer. I find material that I think would make a good movie or TV show, find the right financier/studio/network, hire a writer, get a good script, find a director, and collaborate with him/her to cast the movie and hire department heads.
Nina Jacobson
Good
Director
Creative
Think
Collaborate
Good Movie
Kind
TV
Would
Find
TV Show
Good Script
Variety
Cast
Writer
Heads
Make
Material
Hire
Very
Get
Department
Hands-On
Different
Movie
Script
Different Kind
Producer
Producers
Show
Right
After I finished my degree in Mass Communication in Manipal, I enrolled for a cinematography course in Pune Film Institute. That is when Nandini Reddy, the director of 'Ala Modalaindi,' convinced me to act.
Nithya Menen
Me
Director
Communication
Degree
Finished
Cinematography
Enrolled
Mass
Institute
Course
After
Convinced
Act
Film
I try to choose characters that are very different; I think I have succeeded in that. A big role or a small one does not bother me at all. What matters is that I should have a rapport with the director.
Nithya Menen
Me
Director
Try
Big
Matters
Think
Characters
Rapport
Small
Bother
Does
Very
Role
Different
Succeeded
Should
Choose
I've always wanted to be a director; it's just how my mind has always worked. If I hear music, I see music videos and all the shots and setups to edit it all together. If I interact with a person, I'm seeing a whole scene come to life.
Noel Wells
Life
Music
Director
Together
Videos
Mind
Music Videos
See
Seeing
Scene
Come
Edit
Always
How
Hear
Hear Music
Person
Just
Interact
Wanted
Worked
Shots
Whole
My first motion capture game was with Sony - 'NBA: The Life.' It was very ahead of its time. Brandon Akiaten, he was the writer and director. He had a real vision of what this game was meant to be; it was a basketball game where I was the Jerry Maguire sports agent type guy. And it was great!
Nolan North
Life
Time
Great
Game
Director
Sports
Vision
First
Type
Guy
Writer
Had
He
Sony
Motion
Real
Very
Where
Agent
Meant
Meant To Be
Capture
NBA
Jerry
Basketball
If the packaging is good - the actors, director and producer - then it will work, even if the product is not good.
Nushrat Bharucha
Work
Good
Director
Will
Packaging
Then
Producer
Product
Even
Actor
I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that.
Olafur Eliasson
Buy
Art
Director
People
Thought
Single
Think
Says
Collector
Something
More
He
Put
Know
His
Than
List
Oh
Little
Who
Museum
If something touches me, I cry. That's it. I'm a bit raw, a bit rubbish, really. Often, a director will say to me, 'I don't think this is a scene where your character cries.' And all I can say is, good luck with that!
Olivia Colman
Good
Character
Me
Director
Will
Luck
Think
Rubbish
Cries
Good Luck
Say
Bit
Something
Scene
Raw
Cry
Often
Where
Really
Your
People have nervous tics they don't know about, and I would advise asking around. Ask the casting director, 'Is there something I'm doing?' I would see people unconsciously rocking back and forth. I roll my lips. I bite my lips and roll them.
Olivia Wilde
Director
People
Nervous
Back
Bite
Would
See
About
Something
Casting
Know
Advise
Around
Doing
Rocking
Lips
Roll
Them
Forth
Ask
Asking
But when you work with the director and the real person who is playing opposite you, it changes everything. You are almost in a working session. I was very comfortable, and that's maybe what helped me to get the part.
Olivier Martinez
Work
Me
You
Director
Changes
Everything
Part
Almost
Comfortable
Real
Opposite
Very
Person
Real Person
Get
Maybe
Working
Who
Helped
Playing
Session
I never wanted to be a director. I came into this industry by the little door, so I never learned anything; I never went to school. Actors will tell you I'm very precise. I just have the intuition of doing things.
Olivier Megaton
You
Director
School
Will
Tell
Intuition
Never
Industry
Learned
Doing
Came
Very
Precise
Just
Door
Wanted
Anything
Little
Actor
Things
I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a ton of chain mail for Ridley any day of the week. He's an amazing director and I can't wait to see the long version.
Orlando Bloom
Day
Director
Happy
Amazing
Wait
Long
Back
Would
See
Week
Mail
He
Part
Go
Been
Version
Any
Process
Straight
Chain
Desert
Ton
Mark Ruffalo is just an amazing guy and an amazing director.
Orlando Bloom
Director
Amazing
Mark
Guy
Just
I resigned from my position as Ushahidi Executive Director and member of the Board in 2010. However, my role as a co-founder and my journey as a woman in the technology space means that I remain inextricably linked to Ushahidi, for better or worse.
Ory Okolloh
Journey
Technology
Director
Woman
Better
Space
My Journey
Worse
Member
Remain
Executive
However
Inextricably
Linked
Role
Board
Means
Resigned
Position
'Carrie' was a pretty big-budget movie at a real studio, with a director that had already done a bunch of things and had some notoriety, and Stephen King was the writer.
P. J. Soles
Director
King
Carrie
Some
Pretty
Writer
Had
Studio
Stephen King
Real
Bunch
Done
Movie
Notoriety
Things
It's different being a director. I suppose, especially if it's a story you've written and you feel compelled to tell, in some ways it's a lot easier than acting because you're orchestrating the piece. As an actor, sometimes you're trying to second-guess what people want.
Paddy Considine
You
Director
People
Sometimes
Second-Guess
Ways
Easier
Tell
Some
Written
Feel
Suppose
Piece
Because
Lot
Than
Trying
Being
Different
Want
Story
Acting
Actor
Compelled
I'll admit, sometimes I've paid the bills with acting. You know the phrase, 'It's one for the money, two for the showreel.' I don't want that as a director. I don't want to compromise myself. There's a big old wide world out there. I want to explore it.
Paddy Considine
Myself
You
Director
World
Money
Sometimes
Old
Big
Out
Phrase
Admit
Compromise
Know
Want
Explore
Acting
Paid
Bills
Wide
Wide World
Two
Actors, I think, are all the same. Both Korean actors and American actors are all very sensitive people, and they are all curious to know what the director thinks of them and how they are evaluated, and they try to satisfy the director. And they like it if you listen carefully to their opinions and accept them.
Park Chan-wook
You
Director
People
Try
Think
Carefully
Both
Like
Know
Accept
Opinions
How
Korean
Very
Curious
American
Same
Listen
Sensitive
Them
Actor
Satisfy
Thinks
Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.
Park Chan-wook
Director
Job
Visual
Course
Elements
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