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I am always surprised to be chosen by a director for a role because I never understand why they like me.
Audrey Tautou
Me
Director
I Am
Never
Like
Because
Understand
Always
Am
Surprised
Role
Chosen
Why
Chris Nolan is an amazing director.
Tom Lister, Jr.
Director
Amazing
Nolan
Chris
The job of the director is to make certain that the film has one voice and a sense of a single vision, even though it's produced by a large number of people making contributions - to turn all those contributions from individual voices into one coherent one.
Ken Loach
Director
People
Vision
Job
Single
Sense
Those
Though
Voice
Voices
Individual
Make
Making
Contributions
Turn
Produced
Certain
Large
Even
Large Number
Film
Coherent
Number
A good working relationship between an actor and the director is very important. It takes a while to build a comfort zone because filmmaking is a long process so it is important to connect with people you work with.
Rasika Dugal
Work
Good
Relationship
You
Director
People
Long
Important
Build
Long Process
Takes
Between
Comfort
Comfort Zone
Because
Very
Process
While
Working
Connect
Actor
Zone
Filmmaking
I am a very spread out type of director as I just love working in all of these different worlds; I go from commercials to music videos to art projects.
Jonas Akerlund
Love
Music
Art
Director
I Am
Videos
Worlds
Type
Music Videos
Projects
Out
Am
Spread
Go
Very
Commercials
Just
Different
Working
Different Worlds
When I started trying to become a director, I started shooting low budget short films, 50-dollar music videos, making my own stuff. That eventually led to commercials.
Ruben Fleischer
Music
Director
Videos
Become
Own
Films
Music Videos
My Own
Stuff
Budget
Making
Led
Commercials
Trying
Shooting
Short
Short Films
Low
Low-Budget
Eventually
Started
Rahman is very very director friendly. He is ever ready to go whichever the director wants, the story wants, depending on the kind of movie or the music you want, and within that he finds his niche. It is a constantly complementary process. At the end of the day he is not pleasing you, he has to please himself.
Mani Ratnam
Music
Day
You
Director
End Of The Day
Complementary
Please
Pleasing
Kind
Finds
Constantly
He
Himself
Within
Ready
Go
His
End
Friendly
Very
Depending
Want
Movie
Wants
Process
Story
Niche
Ever
I have worked very hard to shed away my chocolate boy image in order to get a tough look for this action entertainer. I am confident of my success and would love to dedicate the same to Director Balachandar sir.
Uday Kiran
Success
Love
Director
I Am
Tough
Action
Entertainer
Would
Look
Shed
Boy
Am
Very
Sir
Get
Same
Confident
Order
Chocolate
Worked
Dedicate
Hard
Away
Image
I haven't worked with a director who is a crazy person at all.
Dylan O'Brien
Crazy
Director
Person
Crazy Person
Worked
Who
As an actor you have to bring to the table your creative input. But when a director like Ridley Scott says I want you to do this this way, you know when he gets to the editing room he has a reason for it. It's like watching a masterpiece.
Cuba Gooding, Jr.
You
Director
Creative
Editing
Way
Input
Says
Table
I Want You
He
Like
Know
Masterpiece
Editing Room
Scott
Gets
Want
Room
Your
Reason
Creative Input
Ridley Scott
Actor
Bring
Watching
I feel very strongly as a writer and as a director it is not my job to crush the audience’s imagination.
Sam Levinson
Director
Job
Imagination
I Feel
Strongly
Writer
Feel
Crush
Very
The difference between one writer and the other, or one director and the other, is the way he deals with a scene.
Sreenivasan
Director
Other
Way
Scene
Writer
He
Between
Deals
Difference
Now, I have big-money offers on three movies, and I have director approval. That's kind of scary,' he says. 'No directors have been attached. That's a lot of pressure on me.
Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Me
Director
Pressure
Three
Approval
Says
Kind
Scary
Attached
Directors
He
Been
Lot
Offers
Movies
Now
The only time I was really free was when the director said 'Action' in front of a camera or on the stage, and that's when I flew.
Louis Gossett, Jr.
Time
Director
Free
Stage
Action
Only
Only Time
Said
Camera
Front
Really
Flew
When I was young, I was like, ‘I want to want to work with this director and that director'. I've stopped doing that. You put yourself in a place where you get disappointed.
Tanushree Dutta
Work
You
Director
Yourself
Young
Put
Disappointed
Like
Doing
Get
Stopped
Where
Want
Place
Finally, 'Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu' happened. The director had doubts if a city-bred, fair-looking boy would fit the role of a village kabbadi player.
Vishnu Vishal
Director
Finally
Would
Had
Boy
Fit
Role
Happened
Doubts
Village
Player
Every time a Hollywood director shoots a film about Africa that features a Western protagonist, I shake my head - because Africans, real people though we may be, are used as props in the West's fantasy of itself.
Uzodinma Iweala
Time
Director
People
Every
Every Time
Though
About
Shake
Features
Head
Props
Protagonist
Because
Real
West
Western
Itself
Real People
Shoots
May
Africa
African
Fantasy
Hollywood
Used
Film
My final ambition is to turn director.
Prosenjit Chatterjee
Director
Ambition
Final
Turn
With 'Family and Loyalty,' I didn't already have an idea for that video. So I called Fab Five Freddy. I wanted to get a director that I didn't have to explain Gang Starr to and he was with it.
DJ Premier
Family
Loyalty
Director
Freddy
He
Idea
Five
Get
Wanted
Explain
Video
Gang
As an actress I knew I had to control my weight gain somehow as any director or producer would like to sign in a svelte actress.
Mumtaj
Director
Control
Sign
Would
Somehow
Had
Weight
Knew
Like
Any
Gain
Producer
Actress
I sometimes tell a director that I want to work with him. I tell him twice. After that if he still doesn't give me a call, I move on.
Javed Jaffrey
Work
Me
Director
Sometimes
Move On
Tell
Give
Give Me
He
Call
Him
Still
Move
Want
After
Twice
Somebody who likes to do my plays is a good director for them.
Tom Stoppard
Good
Director
Somebody
Likes
Them
Who
Good Director
Plays
I've seen what a difference a good director can make to an actor's performance.
Soha Ali Khan
Good
Director
Seen
Performance
Make
Difference
Good Director
Actor
I have been manager, director, now I am head coach, and it's the same role. Absolutely the same role.
Ravi Shastri
Director
I Am
Absolutely
Head
Head Coach
Am
Been
Role
Same
Manager
Coach
Now
My father Kamran Khan was a successful producer, director and actor in B-grade films.
Farah Khan
Director
Father
Films
Khan
Producer
Successful
Actor
I still recall how nervous I was when I went for the recording of ‘Guzarish'… When I reached the studio, all of them were there - Rahman, Aamir Khan, lyricist Prasoon Joshi and director A.R. Murugadoss.
Javed Ali
Director
Nervous
Recording
Lyricist
Khan
Studio
Reached
How
Still
Were
Them
Recall
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