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I feel that the critic and music director should have such a good relationship they can pick up the phone and call each other any time.
Zubin Mehta
Music
Time
Good
Relationship
Director
Phone
Other
Music Director
Critic
Good Relationship
Pick
Feel
Call
Up
Any
Should
Each
Curiously enough, I was one of the first to have some say in Hollywood. By sheer accident, I had four successes in a row in the early 30's and, although I was still in my 20's, I demanded and received approval of cast, story and director. I don't know how I got away with it, but I did!
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Director
First
Accident
Enough
Approval
Say
Some
Cast
Had
Demanded
Know
Sheer
Although
Got
How
Still
Curiously
Did
Story
Hollywood
Successes
Away
Row
Four
Received
Early
Well, I kind of did the math in my head when I was like, 9. I was like, 'Well, if I want to make films' - because I want to be a director - 'I could just go on a film set and learn there.' And then I ended up falling in love with acting and the set and making friends all the time. And so I've just been doing that ever since.
Finn Wolfhard
Love
Time
Director
Films
Kind
Could
Head
Since
Like
Well
Make
Learn
Because
Making
Doing
Go
Falling
Falling In Love
Been
Math
Up
Friends
Did
Ended
Just
Want
Then
Acting
There And Then
Film
Ever
Film Set
Set
Jason Reitman is an amazing director; he's really amazing with his actors and crew.
Finn Wolfhard
Director
Amazing
Crew
He
His
Jason
Really
Actor
Truth be told, actually, my favorite director of the Movie Brats was not Scorsese. Loved him. But my favorite director of the Movie Brats was Brian de Palma. I actually met De Palma right after I'd done 'Reservoir Dogs,' and I was very beside myself.
Quentin Tarantino
Truth
Myself
Director
Met
Favorite
Beside
Him
Dogs
Scorsese
Very
Done
Movie
After
Loved
Brian
Reservoir
Actually
Right
In my mid-20s, I was directing episodes of 'Alfred Hitchcock' and 'Peter Gunn.' I was pretty much on course and - as I sometimes joke - was prepared to devote my life to become the second best film director in my family.
George Stevens, Jr.
Life
Best
Family
Director
Sometimes
My Life
Joke
Become
Alfred Hitchcock
Pretty
Directing
Devote
Course
Hitchcock
Much
Episodes
Peter
Prepared
Film
Second
After completing my graduation, I went to Mumbai and started working as an assistant casting director. I worked on films like 'Talaash,' 'Ek Mai Aur Ekk Tu,' 'Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani' and 'Student Of The Year,' among others.
Varun Sharma
Director
Year
Films
Others
Completing
Casting
Student
Like
Graduation
After
Worked
Working
Mumbai
Among
Started
Assistant
People who see successful young women think that there must be an angle there. It's too good to be true that woman from a good upbringing can walk into a good job and be director.
Karren Brady
Good
Director
Woman
Women
People
Walk
Good Job
Job
Be True
Young
Think
Too
Must
See
Angle
True
Upbringing
Young Women
Successful
Who
The way that I deal with actors as a director is I just talk to them forever before we even arrive on set.
Sam Levinson
Director
Before
Way
Talk
Deal
Arrive
Forever
Just
Them
Even
Actor
Set
I started out as an assistant to a director on two movies, Miguel Arteta. The movies I worked on were 'Chuck and Buck' and 'The Good Girl.' I didn't even know I wanted to be a director until I started working with Miguel.
Ruben Fleischer
Good
Director
Girl
Chuck
Out
Buck
Know
Until
Were
Wanted
Movies
Worked
Working
Even
Good Girl
Started
Assistant
Two
I began as an assistant director to Mahesh Bhatt sahab on films like 'Zulm,' 'Kabza' and 'Aawargi' during the '80s. Then I got an opportunity to act and I took it up thinking direction was something which I could always pursue later.
Arbaaz Khan
Director
Opportunity
Thinking
Films
Took
Later
Something
Direction
Pursue
Could
Like
Always
Got
Began
Up
Which
Then
Act
Assistant
As my other obligations are beginning to take an inordinate amount of time, I have asked to step down as WMG's board chairman, effective January 31, 2012. However, I will remain a director of the company and in that way, continue my association with Warner Music and its extraordinary people.
Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
Music
Time
Director
Obligations
People
Will
Beginning
Down
Other
Extraordinary
Extraordinary People
Inordinate
Way
Remain
Take
Step
However
Continue
Effective
Board
January
Asked
Warner
Company
Chairman
Amount
Association
I do feel that I need to do at least one more Western - I think you need to make three Westerns to call yourself a Western director.
Quentin Tarantino
You
Director
Yourself
Three
Think
I Think
At Least One
More
Feel
Make
Call
Least
Western
Westerns
Need
A few years back I was asked if I would go and meet a director and his various acolytes, and it occurred to me halfway through the meeting that what I was doing was auditioning. And I thought, 'Well, hang on buddy. I've done half a century of this.'
Peter O'Toole
Me
Director
Thought
Half
Few
Meet
Meeting
Back
Would
Various
Through
Buddy
Well
Halfway
Occurred
Auditioning
Doing
Go
His
Years
Hang
Done
Century
Asked
My view is that at a certain age - and we can debate whether that age is 70-72 or 75 - members need to step off boards. As per the banking guidelines, that age for the director on a board today is 70.
Uday Kotak
Today
Director
Age
Debate
Guidelines
Members
Per
Step
Off
Banking
Whether
Board
Boards
Certain
Certain Age
View
Need
Murnau is neck to neck with Bergman as my favorite director. He's responsible for some of the best images in cinema of all time, from 'Nosferatu' to 'Faust' to 'Sunset.'
Robert Eggers
Time
Best
Sunset
Director
Cinema
Bergman
Favorite
Responsible
Some
All-Time
He
Images
Neck
I love film noir, so Billy Wilder is like my favorite director of all time.
Tony Todd
Love
Time
Director
Wilder
Favorite
I Love
All-Time
Noir
Like
Billy
Billy Wilder
Film
Film Noir
As an actor you can always blame the director or writer for negative feedback. But as a writer, you're the reason why everyone's in the room.
Zawe Ashton
You
Director
Blame
Feedback
Negative
Everyone
Writer
Always
Room
Reason
Actor
Why
There used to be times when I used to be bothered about box office, director, producer, the actress... If those ticks were marked, I used to say 'yes' to a film. Later on, my focus absolutely changed. Now if a character stays with me for two to three nights, I say 'yes' to the film.
Prosenjit Chatterjee
Character
Me
Director
Focus
Three
Nights
Changed
Marked
Later
Say
Those
Stays
About
Absolutely
Bothered
Box
Box Office
Were
Yes
Times
Office
Producer
Used
Film
Now
Actress
Two
The worst thing about being a freelance film director is that you're scrambling around Soho with a briefcase, looking for somewhere to make phone calls. That was my position for 10 years.
Ken Loach
You
Director
Phone
Somewhere
Freelance
Looking
Phone Calls
Worst
Worst Thing
About
Make
Calls
Around
Years
Being
Briefcase
Film
Thing
Position
I started out with V Shantaram. But my favourite director has been Gulzar, with whom I did intelligent cinema in movies like 'Khushboo,' 'Kinara' and 'Parichay.'
Jeetendra
Director
Cinema
Out
Has-Been
Favourite
Like
Been
Intelligent
Did
Movies
Whom
Started
I was the one who kept telling my second husband he should become a cinematographer. I paid for him to get his director's card, and he went on to make 'Godspell.'
Carmen Dell'Orefice
Director
Husband
Become
Cinematographer
Telling
He
Make
Him
His
Get
Should
Paid
Who
Card
Second
Kept
For the audience, actors carry out specific roles of men and women through the character that they play out on screen. The director on the other hand is not doing a gender-specific job. So, it is irrelevant if the person who makes a particular film is a man or a woman.
Farah Khan
Character
Man
Director
Woman
Women
Job
Men
Men And Women
Other
On-Screen
Out
Carry
Through
Particular
Makes
Audience
Doing
Hand
Person
Roles
Irrelevant
Screen
Who
Film
Actor
Specific
Play
Every time a film comes together, usually the studio executives come up for a day to the set. If you're out of town, they'll fly in or wherever you are - the cast, the director, the producers - all get together and have a big dinner and celebrate the fact that we're about to start shooting.
Nicholas D'Agosto
Time
Day
You
Director
Together
Celebrate
Fly
Dinner
Big
Every
Every Time
Out
About
Cast
Fact
Studio
Town
Come
Executives
Up
Get
Shooting
Get Together
Wherever
Producers
Film
Start
Set
Manmohan Desai's films pack a lot of joy and have a child-like quality and you can see the director is having fun, but my movies don't suspend disbelief that much. But it's good to be compared to Manmohan Desai. He was run down by critics in his time.
Farah Khan
Time
Good
You
Director
Quality
Joy
Down
Films
Run
Critics
See
Having
Having Fun
He
Disbelief
His
Lot
Child-Like
Suspend
Pack
Movies
Much
Fun
Compared
I was a choir director for my high school. Of my friends, I was the more rational one, because I was the choir girl!
Big Freedia
Director
School
Girl
High
High School
More
Rational
Because
Friends
Choir
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