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At Camp One we were met by Director of Public Works Warwick Greene, grim and grimy. He has been working himself to death to make this transportation plan a success.
William Cameron Forbes
Success
Death
Director
Met
Has-Been
He
Make
Himself
Were
Been
Camp
Public
Grim
Plan
Working
Transportation
Works
I'm quite good friends with the putative director, Vincenzo Natali, and I'm a big fan of his work, but beyond that, I don't like to talk about other people's work work-in-progress.
William Gibson
Work
Good
Director
People
Big
Good Friends
Other
About
Like
Beyond
Talk
Big Fan
His
Friends
Quite
Fan
When I was nine years old I use to copy - not trace - the covers of the Donald Duck comics. Many years later I became a close friend of Jack Hannah, the director of the Donald Duck film shorts.
William Jackson
Director
Old
Nine
Later
Trace
Became
Duck
Comics
Years
Covers
Friend
Close
Close Friend
Jack
Donald
Donald Duck
Hannah
Shorts
Use
Many
Film
Copy
Suppose you want to be a great archeologist, and you join a successful archeologist as a student assistant, and he tells you where to dig. You dig up a marvelous discovery. Now I ask you, who should get the credit: the director or the digger?
William Lipscomb
Great
You
Director
Dig
Tells
Join
Marvelous
Student
He
Suppose
Discovery
Up
Get
Where
Want
Ask
Successful
Should
Who
Now
Credit
Assistant
I'd love to do a Michel Gondry film. That would be ideal! I'd love to do an Almodovar film; you know, I think he's very, very talented. I don't care that people say he's pretentious. So what? He's a good director; he can be pretentious.
William Moseley
Love
Good
You
Director
People
Care
Pretentious
Think
Say
Would
Would-Be
People Say
He
Ideal
Talented
Know
Very
Good Director
Film
I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious.
William Peter Blatty
Director
Though
Unnoticed
Unconscious
Submerged
Any
Often
Influenced
Happen
Aware
Things
As a director, it became important to hear that specific role read by that specific actor, and you hear the chemistry, or you don't hear the chemistry. So I'm not so bothered by the audition process anymore; in fact, I use it. It's a time for the actor to actually get to the know the director and the producers a little bit, too.
William Sadler
Time
You
Director
Important
Chemistry
Too
Bit
Fact
Bothered
Know
Read
Became
Audition
Hear
Role
Get
In Fact
Anymore
Process
Little
Little Bit
Producers
Use
Actor
Specific
Actually
A director is a choreographer, both politically and creatively.
William Shatner
Director
Both
Politically
Choreographer
Creatively
Everything a director does must help the story and the performances. Otherwise, it is useless.
William Wyler
Director
Otherwise
Everything
Must
Performance
Does
Story
Help
Useless
Cruise director is - I always laugh and say, 'He's the ship's liver,' because almost everything you can think of filters through you at some point.
Willie Aames
You
Director
Think
Filters
Everything
Say
Laugh
Some
Point
Through
He
Cruise
Almost
Almost Everything
Because
Always
Ship
Liver
I was fired from a movie because I did 'Heathers!' I was cast in a movie, and the director saw an advance screening and was offended by it and fired me.
Winona Ryder
Me
Director
Offended
Saw
Cast
Fired
Advance
Because
Did
Screening
Movie
In 1952, I was appointed Professor at the University of Bonn and Director of the Physics Institute, with very good students waiting for a thesis advisor.
Wolfgang Paul
Good
Director
Waiting
Physics
Students
Institute
Advisor
Very
Thesis
Professor
Appointed
University
When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great musician. When he heard me, he said 'Are you sure you're Ellis's son?'
Wynton Marsalis
Great
Me
You
Director
Son
School
Father
Band
Ellis
Musician
High
High School
He
Excited
Known
Sure
Because
Said
Heard
It would have been tough for anyone to adapt 'Push' - an amazing but wrenching novel by Sapphire - for the screen, and I think director Lee Daniels made interesting choices, particularly with Precious' fantasies. In my view, some of them work and some do not, but they are definitely provocative directorial choices.
Yance Ford
Work
Director
Amazing
Made
Tough
Think
Definitely
Would
Some
Wrenching
Push
Particularly
Been
Lee
Provocative
Precious
Screen
Anyone
Interesting
Fantasies
Them
Choices
View
Novel
Adapt
When I was in college, my brother, B.R. Chopra, who is everything to me, was a director in Bombay. He taught me filmmaking. What I am today is because of him.
Yash Chopra
Today
Me
Director
College
Everything
Brother
He
Him
Because
Am
Taught
Who
Bombay
Filmmaking
I am happy film stars are singing in their films. I hope to work as a music director for a film where actors will sing all the songs.
Yo Yo Honey Singh
Work
Hope
Music
Director
Happy
Will
Singing
Stars
Films
Music Director
Songs
Sing
Am
Where
Film
Actor
Film Stars
I came to Los Angeles only after filming 'A Good Day to Die Hard,' when I was cast in the independent movie 'Delirium.' Director Lee Roy Kunz was looking everywhere for a Russian actress. He saw my photos, and only then he learned where I starred before! Eventually, I spent several months in the U.S., and we made the film quickly.
Yuliya Snigir
Good
Day
Director
Good Day
Made
Looking
Before
Saw
Months
Everywhere
Several
Spent
Independent
Photos
Angeles
Russian
Only
Cast
Delirium
He
Learned
Los
Came
Los Angeles
Lee
Quickly
Die
Die Hard
Where
Movie
After
Then
Hard
Film
Actress
Eventually
Starred
Roy
Filming
I follow the director's lead because they generally know more about the big picture, but I also trust that the director will give me enough freedom to play.
Yuri Lowenthal
Freedom
Me
Director
Trust
Will
Picture
Big
Enough
Follow
About
Give
Give Me
More
Generally
Lead
Know
Also
Because
Big Picture
Play
A lot of times, for videogames, you get almost no time to prepare with a script. You've got a director that's going line for line, filling you in on what's happening, and some games are even less than that.
Yuri Lowenthal
Time
You
Director
Some
No Time
Almost
Got
Line
Lot
Times
Than
Get
Going
Happening
Script
Videogames
Games
Less
Even
Prepare
Filling
I hate when a movie just sort of ends and is so open-ended you feel like it wasn't finished. I appreciate leaving things up to the interpretation of the audience and letting them make decisions about where things will go in the future - but the director has to make a decision; otherwise it is sort of a cop-out.
Zach Gilford
Future
You
Director
Hate
Decision
Will
Finished
Interpretation
Otherwise
About
Feel
Open-Ended
Like
Make
Sort
Audience
Leaving
Go
Up
Just
Ends
Where
Movie
Decisions
Them
Letting
Cop-Out
Things
Appreciate
Any director who's willing to be brave not only in terms of subject matter but also in terms of being emotional and moving you is what inspires me.
Zal Batmanglij
Me
You
Director
Matter
Be Brave
Willing
Only
Inspires
Emotional
Terms
Also
Subject
Subject Matter
Brave
Any
Being
Moving
It doesn't really matter what someone's hair looks like or if the sound is perfect. Every director who's made a couple of movies knows that, because you can replace the sound. Or, like, any one shot is not that important, because they all add up together.
Zal Batmanglij
You
Director
Together
Matter
Made
Hair
Important
Every
Add
Someone
Perfect
Like
Couple
Looks
Knows
Because
Sound
Up
Replace
Any
Movies
Shot
Really
A director really doesn't deal with performance that much, especially if you deal with great actors. Their work is the performance. What you're helping them with is all the stuff they cannot be in control of.
Zal Batmanglij
Work
Great
You
Director
Control
Performance
Stuff
Deal
Cannot
Them
Much
Really
Helping
Actor
When your dad is a preacher and your mom is a choir director and you're in church all the time, as a youngster, you've got to find something to do. That's where my musical background comes from.
Zaytoven
Time
Mom
You
Director
Church
Musical
Background
Find
Something
Got
Preacher
Where
Choir
Youngster
Your
Dad
I don't want to be a director, or to have responsibility for hundreds of people.
Zoe Wanamaker
Director
People
Responsibility
Hundreds
Hundreds Of People
Want
It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'
Zoey Deutch
Me
You
Director
Mother
Nice
Think
Telling
About
Someone
He
Talk
Always
His
Five
Get
Donuts
Production
Acting
Dad
Watch
Assistant
Set
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