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When you have a good director, it's just wonderful.
Sarita Choudhury
Good
You
Director
Wonderful
Just
Good Director
My first time nude was with a woman director, so I thought it would be easy, but it wasn't.
Sarita Choudhury
Time
Director
Woman
Thought
First
Would
Would-Be
Easy
First Time
Most of the top actors and actresses may be working in ten or twelve films at the same time, so they will give one director two hours and maybe shoot in Bombay in the morning and Madras in the evening. It happens.
Satyajit Ray
Time
Morning
Director
Will
Films
Top
Madras
Give
Ten
Hours
Most
Shoot
Same
May
Maybe
Same Time
Happens
Working
Twelve
Evening
Actor
Actress
Bombay
Two
I don't worry about what everyone wants to see. I make movies that please a writer, director and myself. I always think there are enough people smart as me and sensitive as me.
Saul Zaentz
Myself
Me
Director
People
Smart
Think
Enough
Enough People
Everyone
Please
Worry
See
About
Writer
Make
Always
Wants
Sensitive
Movies
Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.
Scott Caan
Good
Me
Director
Whatever
Bad
Compliment
Take
His
Movie
Wants
Mediocre
There are certainly better writers and directors than me, but I have worked very hard to earn credibility within the business as a quality writer and a good director.
Scott Derrickson
Good
Me
Business
Director
Quality
Better
Earn
Directors
Writer
Writers
Within
Very
Than
Worked
Hard
Certainly
Good Director
Credibility
Casting, to me, is always the same. It's a very important part of a director's job. I pick people that I sense I'd like to be in a room with and will enjoy the rehearsal process with because that's the best part.
Scott Ellis
Best
Me
Director
People
Will
Job
Important
Sense
Enjoy
Best Part
Casting
Pick
Part
Like
Because
Important Part
Always
Very
Same
Process
Room
Rehearsal
Rehearsal Process
'Tangerine' was less than half the budget of 'Starlet,' and 'Starlet' was already a microbudget film. A director always wants more time, and we had a limited amount of resources.
Sean Baker
Time
Director
Half
Resources
More
Had
Budget
Budget Film
Limited
Always
Tangerine
Than
Wants
Less
Film
Starlet
Amount
I don't see myself as a short-film director, and I'm not a commercial director.
Sean Baker
Myself
Director
See
Commercial
I've told my agent to push the idea of me as a director for hire off the table. Otherwise, we're wasting people's time.
Sean Baker
Time
Me
Director
People
Otherwise
Table
Push
Idea
Hire
Off
Agent
Wasting
I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.
Sean Penn
Director
About
Point
Excitement
Particular
Any
Working
Actor
Specific
I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.
Sean Penn
Director
Better
Living
Though
Would
Directing
Make
Than
Movies
Prefer
Certainly
Actor
I am very clear that when I work with a director what he or she says is the last word.
Shah Rukh Khan
Work
Director
Word
Says
He
He Or She
Clear
She
Am
Very
Last
Writing is a black-box proposition. You see actors; you can see what they're doing. You can watch the director on set doing his work. But when a studio says to a writer, 'Give us some pages,' he just goes off and comes back. It's just pages, and suddenly, there's some writing on them.
Shane Black
Work
You
Director
Writing
Back
Says
See
Some
Give
Writer
Proposition
He
Studio
Doing
His
Off
Goes
Just
Them
Us
Pages
Suddenly
Actor
Watch
Set
Whatever it takes, the job of the director is to be the leader and to get your actors where they need to go. That's a philosophy that I have.
Shawn Levy
Director
Job
Leader
Whatever
Philosophy
Takes
Go
Get
Where
Your
Actor
Need
I often wonder when I make a film - I'm thinking of making a film of the Buddha - and I often wonder: If Buddha had all the elements that are given to a director - if he had music, if he had visuals, if he had a video camera - would we get Buddhism better?
Shekhar Kapur
Music
Director
Better
Thinking
Would
Visuals
Given
Had
He
Buddha
Buddhism
Make
Making
Camera
Wonder
Get
Often
Video
Video Camera
Elements
Film
It is awkward to see a director on the screen.
Shekhar Kapur
Director
See
Screen
Awkward
Appearing in 'Legally Blonde' has helped me find my inner girl, although at the beginning the director was constantly telling me off for sitting like a boy, with my legs apart, while wearing a cocktail dress and heels!
Sheridan Smith
Me
Director
Girl
Beginning
Cocktail
Telling
Find
Constantly
Wearing
Dress
Like
Although
Boy
Blonde
Off
Legally
Sitting
Legs
While
Apart
Heels
Helped
Appearing
Inner
I've been a DJ, janitor, ditch digger, waitress, computer instructor, programmer, mechanic, web developer, clerk, manager, marketing director, tour guide and dorm manager, among other things.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Director
Mechanic
Other
Guide
Marketing
Ditch
Web
Computer
Tour
Developer
Clerk
Instructor
Been
Waitress
Manager
Dorm
Janitor
Among
Things
Programmer
Every actress has a line she'll draw, where she'll say, 'This I will do and this I won't.' For me, everything has to be important to the story and the director has to be able to tell me why.
Sheryl Lee
Me
Director
Will
Important
Every
Everything
Say
Draw
Tell
Able
She
Line
Where
Story
Actress
Why
Just having more days of being the director on the ground, that's been invaluable.
Shiri Appleby
Director
Invaluable
Having
More
Days
Been
Just
Being
Ground
I'm not a betting woman, but I have $50 on Secretariat with an old director friend of mine.
Shirley Booth
Director
Woman
Old
Mine
Betting
Friend
Of course I'm schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart.
Shirley MacLaine
Director
Heart
School
Old
Own
Think
My Own
Through
Taking
Schooled
Course
Method
Brain
Wants
Then
Old School
I'm never happy with the work I put in. No. I need to be told by my director and people around me that it is fine. Otherwise, I'll even go, like, 'One more take.'
Shraddha Kapoor
Work
Me
Director
Happy
People
Otherwise
Fine
More
Take
Never
Put
Like
Around
Go
Even
Need
After watching my Kannada film 'U Turn,' director Kannan narrated the story of 'Ivan Thanthiran,' and wanted me to attend the auditions in Chennai. He selected me after seeing me perform to two difficult scenes I was given during the screen test.
Shraddha Srinath
Me
Director
Difficult
Seeing
Given
Scenes
Selected
He
Attend
Perform
Test
Auditions
Screen
Wanted
After
Story
Turn
Film
Watching
Two
The first and foremost criterion for me when selecting a film is the character I am playing, and then the director.
Shruti Haasan
Character
Me
Director
First
Criterion
Selecting
Am
Foremost
Then
Film
Playing
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