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That's the best way to work on a project: talk to the director. In the end, it's the director's idea of how they perceive the movie and how they perceive the characters.
Stephanie Sigman
Work
Best
Director
Project
Way
Characters
Best Way
Perceive
Idea
Talk
How
End
Movie
In The End
I'm a theatre person, that's who I am. I'm happy to make sojourns into the world of movies but I'm basically a theatre director that potters off and does a couple of movies.
Stephen Daldry
Director
Happy
Theatre
World
Couple
Make
Does
Am
Off
Person
Movies
Who
Basically
As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.
Stephen Frears
Director
Job
Protect
Scripts
Actor
Designers
The director of 'Independence Day,' 'Godzilla' and 'The Patriot' has certain attributes, all of which are given full vent in 'The Day After Tomorrow.' He's crude, stupid, slick, cornball, predictable, laughable, relentless, trivial and, the sum of all these, ridiculous. He's never made a movie you could believe and he still hasn't.
Stephen Hunter
Day
You
Director
Tomorrow
Independence
Made
Stupid
Believe
Sum
Slick
Relentless
Independence Day
Laughable
Given
Trivial
Could
Crude
Never
He
Vent
Attributes
Still
Godzilla
Movie
Patriot
After
Predictable
Which
Certain
Full
Ridiculous
My criteria for doing theater has always been slightly different than my criteria with movies, in that there are a lot of reasons to do films, having to do with location, money, and first and foremost having to do with script and role and director.
Stephen Lang
Director
Money
First
Films
Location
Slightly
Criteria
Having
Always
Doing
Been
Foremost
Lot
Than
Role
Different
Theater
Script
Movies
Reasons
I always wanted to direct. I always saw myself as a director. I know that I've definitely found what I should be doing with my life. In my life, as far as my career goes, I always felt, as an actor, that it was something that would just be a temporary thing that would get me to what I wanted to do next. That's what my acting did.
Steve Antin
Life
Myself
Me
Director
My Life
Just Be
Saw
Definitely
Would
Temporary
Direct
Something
Know
Felt
Always
Doing
Get
Did
Goes
Just
As Far As
Wanted
Far
Next
Should
Acting
Found
Actor
Thing
Career
The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor.
Steve Buscemi
Me
Director
Responsibility
Gave
Had
He
Most
Involvement
Lot
Actor
Alex
I'd say that the director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell in 'In the Soup'. It was one of my earliest leading roles, and he gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor.
Steve Buscemi
Me
Director
Responsibility
Gave
Say
Had
He
Leading
Most
Involvement
Soup
Lot
Roles
Actor
Earliest
Alex
I don't think it's necessary to be an actor to get great performances out of an actor. But I do think it helps me as a director because I know what I like as an actor, and I try to get that to the actors who I'm working with.
Steve Buscemi
Great
Me
Director
Try
Think
Out
Performance
Like
Know
Because
Get
Working
Who
Helps
Actor
Necessary
I love working with Scorsese. He's not only a brilliant director and is great working with actors, but he's also a walking human film encyclopedia. It's fun to talk about movies with him.
Steve Buscemi
Love
Great
Director
Brilliant
About
Only
He
Talk
Also
Him
Encyclopedia
Scorsese
Walking
Human
Movies
Working
Fun
Film
Actor
In a way, all Scandinavian movies are descendants of the original Scandinavian Christian-metaphor movie, Danish director Carl Dreyer's 1928 'The Passion of Joan of Arc,' one of the seven or eight best films ever made and impossible to watch more than once.
Steve Erickson
Best
Director
Passion
Impossible
Made
Films
Seven
Once
Way
Joan
Danish
Scandinavian
Arc
More
Than
Eight
Movie
Movies
Descendants
Original
Ever
Watch
Any director who's also acted understands the fact that every person has a different process and has to be approached differently.
Steve Zahn
Director
Every
Fact
Also
Understands
Person
Any
Different
Process
Acted
Differently
I'd like to make movies as a producer and a director.
Steven Bauer
Director
Like
Make
Movies
Producer
A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator.
Steven Berkoff
Great
Director
Run
Administrator
House
Opera
Opera House
You are treated like a cog in a machine. The director might be obsessing so much with the stunts that he doesn't notice your performance, and the producer may just be an insane money man, but I have no snobbery about the movies.
Steven Berkoff
You
Man
Director
Money
Snobbery
Just Be
Machine
Insane
About
He
Performance
Like
Stunts
May
Just
Movies
Might
Much
Producer
Notice
Your
Cog
Treated
A lot of the music editing job is communication and working out what a director really wants the music to be.
Steven Price
Music
Director
Communication
Editing
Job
Out
Lot
Wants
Really
Working
One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.
Steven Spielberg
You
Director
Yourself
Difficult
Out
Details
About
Volunteer
Being
Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.
Steven Spielberg
Director
Fate
Sometimes
Destiny
More
Casting
Point
Point Of View
Talent
Than
Skill
View
I am a very impatient director.
Steven Spielberg
Director
Impatient
Am
Very
'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied behind his back.
Steven Spielberg
Character
Director
Back
Kind
Purple
Color
Could
Like
Piece
Tied
His
Hand
Behind
Brilliantly
Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids to direct me.
Steven Spielberg
Life
Me
Director
Job
My Life
Fathering
Kids
Direct
Both
Major
Things
Need
I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven't ever directed a film where I haven't made five passes through the movie, and that takes a long time.
Steven Spielberg
Time
Director
Made
Long
Long Time
About
Directed
Through
Takes
Passes
Five
Where
Movie
Cuts
Film
Ever
I'm just like a photographer or a director. Of course I have an opinion, but I don't think my opinion, or what I want to say... is so obvious 'cause that's not my job. My job is just to give a point of view, not more than that.
Stromae
Director
Cause
Job
Think
Say
Photographer
Give
More
Point
Point Of View
Like
Obvious
Course
Opinion
Than
Just
Want
View
From my side, I don't put pressure on the director to cater to a certain image. I am happy to do different films, and I have to stick by my director. I like to completely surrender myself to the director - that way, I think, I don't get to do the similar roles.
Suriya
Myself
Director
Surrender
Happy
Pressure
Think
Films
Side
Way
Similar
Put
Like
Cater
Stick
Am
Get
Roles
Different
Certain
Image
The process of working with the second unit director and basically sharing your workload with another director is such an interesting, delicate thing - and entrusting that person with your vision and making sure that you are not adding a completely different aesthetic to the mix that you don't have to contend with in editing.
Susanna Fogel
You
Director
Editing
Vision
Adding
Delicate
Sharing
Contend
Another
Sure
Making
Aesthetic
Mix
Person
Different
Process
Interesting
Working
Your
Unit
Thing
Second
Basically
As roles go, very rarely do you get a role written for you or a director who wants you and only you for the part.
Sushmita Sen
You
Director
Rarely
Only
Part
Written
Go
Very
Role
Get
Roles
Wants
Who
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