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Quotes About Director

My films do very well on home video.
~ Christopher McQuarrie
Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.
~ Tamra Davis
It's tough as an artist to have such a specific vision for your video in mind when you write a song. Reaching out to directors is like going on blind dates and trying to find someone who sees the exact vision behind your music, which can be really difficult.
~ Hayley Kiyoko
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
I'm a commercial director; I do some very very commercial stuff in the commercial world. My music videos are always analyzed. I need to think about what the audience is going to think.
~ Jonas Akerlund
I usually work in music videos, where we shoot, like, 10 to 12 setups and 60 shots or something.
~ Hiro Murai
I began my career as a recording artist, and eventually I started directing my own music videos.
~ Johan Renck
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
Yes, it's true. I'm soon going to direct music videos for our company T-series.
~ Divya Khosla Kumar
A disk unbeknownst to the director can go to the producer in another city or in another office and that producer can edit behind the director's back much easier than in the old days. Since these dailies are now put on videotape, more kinds of people have access to dailies.
~ John Frankenheimer
Some of my best experiences are with writer/directors. Guy Ritchie is one. I feel they have a clearer view of what they want to do. They haven't got to try and interpret someone's writing; it's all theirs. I really admire that.
~ Jason Statham
I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you'd come up with something exponentially better.
~ Tony Goldwyn
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
The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of view, they set the rhythm and they make the final decisions.
~ Christian Bale
I'll come to an agreement with Severin as quickly as possible. It would be easier if he left negotiations to his director, but for some reason he's decided to handle it himself." "As we both know, Severin loves nothing more than to argue with his friends." "Which explains why he doesn't have more of them.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Are you serious? What the hell does a stunt double do in a porno flick? Jake waved a hand vaguely toward his belt. Extreme close-ups. Uh. What? Historically speaking, it doesn't happen often. Especially what with Viagra now. But it isn't unknown for a director to bring in a double for the close of a scene, if the actor is having trouble finishing. I blinked. He thought I was a stunt penis? Jake laughed at my reaction. Man. You are new.
~ Jim Butcher
The 9/11 commission recommended the appointment of a national intelligence director with budgetary authority to better coordinate the work of the intelligence community and resolve differences.
~ Ronald Kessler
A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.
~ Kevin Bacon
Our life is like a movie directed by God which has no beginning and ending, just interval in which we have to play our whole role.
~ Unknown
I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.
~ Vin Diesel
Cronenberg's a lot of fun, and that a lot of people don't know watching his movies. He doesn't take himself seriously. He's still reinventing himself.
~ Vincent Cassel
I did direct two short movies. I learned many things, and one of the things I learned was that I am not a director. It has to be visceral, and it's not for me. I feel much more comfortable acting.
~ Vincent Cassel
Rose meant that while horror films proffered suspense, in reality every fan knows the accepted "rules" of the genre. He argued that, in general, horror movies are actually "one of the safest spaces in cinema" since a fan's knowledge of what to expect provides them with a "flashlight" for the darkest corners a director might lead them to.
~ Unknown
Writer and director Aislinn Clarke doesn't use the phrase elevated horror. But she has suggested that a difference does exist between something being "scary" and true, lingering horror. The creation of horror depends on upending convention and, she suggests, should "punch up" against those in power rather than "merely making monsters of those at the bottom
~ Unknown