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As a cinematographer or director, I'm always looking for projects that are able to say a lot with the actor's expressions.
Reed Morano
Director
Looking
Cinematographer
Projects
Say
Able
Always
Lot
Actor
Expressions
I know how a cinematographer wants to be treated by their director, and so I already have a leg up in that department, and I know what would be insulting to say to a DP because I've been one for so long.
Reed Morano
Director
Long
Cinematographer
Say
Would
Would-Be
Know
Because
Insulting
How
Been
Up
Leg
Department
Wants
Treated
It can be insulting to an actor when the director comes out, and they have no notes on the performance, and all they care about is that the camera has to do this one technical thing.
Reed Morano
Director
Care
Out
About
Performance
Insulting
Camera
Notes
Actor
Technical
Thing
The first director who ever allowed me to shoot a film for him was a male. He was a gay male. My first feature also came from him. I worked for a lot of dudes at NYU.
Reed Morano
Me
Gay
Director
First
Feature
Allowed
He
Also
Him
Dudes
Came
Male
Lot
Shoot
Worked
Who
Film
NYU
Ever
So when I got the chance to do my first talk show, 50 years ago last month, I never had any writers. There was no budget - it was just me and the camera and my friend who was the director. I talked about what I'd done that week.
Regis Philbin
Me
Director
First
Month
About
My Friend
Week
Writers
Never
Had
Budget
Talk
Talk Show
Talked
Got
Camera
Years
Years Ago
Friend
Any
Done
Just
Show
Who
Last
Chance
I actually started as a director, but then I saw Mark Ruffalo in 'You Can Count on Me,' and I thought to myself, 'I want to do that.'
Reid Scott
Myself
Me
You
Director
Thought
Mark
Saw
Count
Want
Then
Actually
Started
I'm not a pyrotechnical director; I'm not good with all those innovative things. What I am interested in is how actors can touch the heads and hearts of an audience.
Richard Attenborough
Good
Director
Innovative
Those
Touch
Heads
Audience
How
Am
Hearts
Interested
Actor
Things
Polanski is a great film director - although the much-acclaimed 'Chinatown' has a muddled script - but his true talent is to make fools of his friends.
Richard Cohen
Great
Director
Fools
Great Film
True
Talent
Make
Although
His
Friends
Script
Chinatown
Muddled
Film
In 'Se7en' and 'Fight Club,' Fincher proved his suave mastery of film violence; in Zodiac, his way of clarifying the many clues in a murder thriller. As he showed in 'The Social Network,' the director also knows that no wound is more toxic than a friend's betrayal.
Richard Corliss
Director
Fight
Club
Way
Wound
Betrayal
More
Network
Thriller
He
Toxic
Also
Knows
Mastery
Suave
Proved
His
His Way
Friend
Than
Clues
Social
Fight Club
Many
Film
Violence
Although the Academy prefers their Best Pictures grounded in realism, not fantasy, Lee's 'Life of Pi' win proved that the voters understand and appreciate the qualities a visionary director needs to create an otherworldly adventure.
Richard Corliss
Life
Best
Needs
Director
Win
Visionary
Adventure
Pictures
Voters
Academy
Qualities
Although
Understand
Proved
Lee
Realism
Fantasy
Create
Grounded
Appreciate
The first director I ever worked with on 'Thrones,' he had a big hand in casting me. He said he cast me because there was a bit of an Alec Guinness about me, but a very dangerous Alec Guinness.
Richard Dormer
Me
Director
Dangerous
First
Big
Bit
Guinness
About
Cast
Casting
Had
He
Because
Said
Hand
Very
Worked
Ever
Alec
You can't be minimalist as a director until you have acquired the experience and confidence to say no.
Richard Eyre
You
Confidence
Director
Experience
Say
Minimalist
Until
Acquired
I love it when a director says, 'I don't know.'
Richard Jenkins
Love
Director
Says
Know
I didn't write to become a director, which many people do.
Richard LaGravenese
Director
People
Become
Write
Which
Many
The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door.
Richard Morris
Education
Music
Director
Will
First
Walks
Music Director
Chant
Parish
Through
He
Hire
Pastor
Door
Who
George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go.
Richard Perle
Time
Director
Culture
Intelligence
Changed
Enough
Has-Been
He
Failed
Since
Go
George
Been
Central
Agency
Should
I loved being in the room with Mamet as a director - he is the most generous, funny, delightful person to work for every day.
Richard Thomas
Work
Funny
Day
Director
Every Day
Every
Delightful
He
Generous
Most
Person
Being
Loved
Room
The 'transition' involves the transfer of power from one president to another. In recent times, the incoming President has designated a Director of the Transition, a team leader, to oversee and administer the orderly transfer of power.
Richard V. Allen
Director
Power
Leader
President
Administer
Involves
Another
Oversee
Times
Orderly
Transfer
Transition
Team
Incoming
Recent
I think the toughest thing about being an actor in a film is to be with a director who doesn't know what they want. And that can be really, really frustrating.
Ricky Jay
Director
Think
About
Toughest
Know
Being
Want
Frustrating
Really
Who
Film
Actor
Thing
Directing, I just feel comfortable. I know what I want. I know what I want from my crew. I lead by example. I have limitless energy as a director.
Ricky Schroder
Director
Example
Energy
Crew
Directing
Lead
Lead By Example
Feel
Know
Comfortable
Limitless
Just
Want
I love being on set, because I've basically grown up on a set. And now I love to contribute as a director and help steer the ship, if you will.
Ricky Schroder
Love
You
Director
Will
Steer
Because
Ship
Up
Contribute
Being
Help
Grown
Now
Grown-Up
Basically
Set
As actors, when you can't be in the room with the casting director or the producers, you put yourself on tape and send it off.
Ricky Whittle
You
Director
Yourself
Casting
Put
Tape
Off
Send
Room
Producers
Actor
By going to a preview, a director becomes insidiously infected by the process, so by the end of it, you're thinking, 'It may be a bit too long.'
Ridley Scott
You
Director
Long
Thinking
Too
Bit
Preview
Becomes
End
Infected
Going
May
Process
I come out of TV. I come out of live television, BBC drama: that's where I started first as a designer, then a director. Then I went independent TV, then television advertising.
Ridley Scott
Director
First
Live
Drama
Television
Independent
Out
TV
Come
Advertising
Where
Then
Live Television
Designer
Started
For the young generation, when they see that there is a film director from Cambodia to go on to be nominated, for them, a lot can change. I don't know another way to restore our identity if it's not art.
Rithy Panh
Art
Change
Director
Generation
Young
Our
Way
See
Restore
Know
Nominated
Identity
Another
Another Way
Cambodia
Go
Lot
Them
Film
I think if I wasn't a musician, I would be a high-school band director or orchestra director. I like working with large groups of musicians and bringing out the dynamics and accomplishing something as a team.
Rivers Cuomo
Musicians
Director
Band
Think
Musician
Out
Would
Would-Be
Something
Like
Accomplishing
Orchestra
Dynamics
Working
Team
Large
Groups
Large Groups
Bringing
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