Quotes About Director

I've actually been given a great gift. When I walk into an audition with a director, I'm carrying no baggage. They haven't seen me in anything, even though I've done nine films.

I made lots of short films, about nine or ten short films. And then I made a television film called 'This Little Life.'

There's no doubt about Prakash's abilities as a director.

I have no idea what makes a director believe in me that I can sell these kind of roles.

I have no interest in directing. I'd be a bad director.

Because I thought there's no point trying to second guess what people are looking for, because if I'm the right director for it, then I'll get the job.

He had a communications director named Hope Hicks. It's not like this was some kind of brilliant subterfuge.

While accepting the award for Best Director, Cameron quoted the most embarrassing line of dialogue from his own script: "I'm the king of the world!" Had this come from almost any other nineties figure, that would have seemed like self-deprecating irony. Coming from Cameron, it was not.

But at that particular moment in time, he was the hottest director in the hemisphere. Critics had loved his unsentimental debut Dead Antelope, and it had become trendy to suggest his sophomore effort, Kiki Vandeweghe, should have won the Oscar for Best Picture.

According to the director, Primer is a movie about the relationship between risk and trust. This is true. But it also makes a concrete point about the potential purpose of time travel—it's too important to use only for money, but too dangerous to use for anything else.

On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.

The director of football went away and started doing some digging around, gathering second opinions about Pep's qualities as an actual coach.

Just now the Joint Chiefs of the Empire's military were gathered—Admiral Antonio Motti, General Cassio Tagge, Rear Admirals Ozzel, Jerjerrod, and others—along with several top officers from COMPNOR, including Director Armand Isard, ISB deputy director Harus Ison, and Colonel Wullf Yularen. Naval Intelligence was represented by Vice Admirals Rancit and Screed

I'm Dr. Ethan Kane, director of the Hauer Institute. My senior medical staff joins me in welcoming all of you to Maryland and to Liberty General Hospital. Think of it! You've been chosen to make an extraordinary journey with us. You'll be making medical history, making some very good money as well, and this will be the best experience you've ever had. I guarantee it!

The real work of an actor goes on inside, and I don't think it changes from director to director - I always go for broke! But I don't get a lot of direction, unfortunately.

I'm extremely unhappy with the projection of 'Tum' as a hot film. It's demeaning not just to me but to the producer and director.

As the director of an opera, it is my responsibility to unify the style of the particular performance, but one can certainly approach the piece from different points of view. That's what makes it interesting and keeps it alive.

When you're directing an ongoing series, the tone has already been set. So a director will come in and fulfill that tone - reinforce the characters and their behavior. The challenge is to find unique ways that you can visually tell the story while keeping the established tone and the pace and the characters.

I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit.

As a second unit director, you're entrusted to shoot the action sequences. On every movie, it's slightly different.

Theater is a lot more interactive, more of a cohesive unit. With television, it can be a different director every episode.

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.

I sketched out a rough story for them and the director said, well it's a good story but we have the go-ahead from Universal to make this script and did I want to do it. I said no, and they left.

Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films.