Quotes About Director

I was too dumb to know Opie was going to grow up to be a great Director, if so, boy, I would certainly have become his best friend.

The director Stanley Kubrick, no doubt attracted by the unusual visuals of urban combat, set Full Metal Jacket in Hue, although in his film the battle is just a backdrop.

Was he joking? Would he really have shot Kinski? 'I said it very quietly so he understood that it was not a joke. But the story then took on a life of its own, until today you can read that I directed him only at gunpoint from behind the camera! That's baloney. It never happened like that. When I talked to him, I did not have a gun in my hands. However, I did have a gun …

It was not my class of people. There was not a producer, a press agent, a director, an actor.

Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.

The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny.

The real trick for me as a director is to make sure that people don't start pushing because the harder you push as a perform the less funny it becomes.

A director recommended me for the role on 'Soap.' They said, 'She plays heavy roles, murderesses and the like.' He said, 'On stage, she could be very very funny.

I want to be in 'Funny Girl.' And I want Ryan Murphy to direct it.

[Baz Luhrmann] is funny, to be quite honest with you.

So I was in my car, and I was driving along, and my boss rang up, and he said 'You've been promoted.' And I swerved. And then he rang up a second time and said You've been promoted again.' And I swerved again. He rang up a third time and said 'You're managing director.' And I went into a tree. And a policeman came up and said 'What happened to you?' And I said 'I careered off the road.'

I'll see if the director is available.

Afterward, AR50 race director Julie Fingar pulled me aside and explained to me that the whole reason ultrarunners become ultrarunners is that they're too slow to qualify for Boston.

Man is not his own maker, therefore he must not be his own master; but the Author of his being must be the director of his motions and the centre of them.

The Dead was cool, It's a great horror story. I went to the casting director of this movie and talked to him, then they called my agent and had me come in and read for it and they wanted to use me.

I hooked up with director Jacques Audiard for this film called 'Rust &amp Bone' with Marion Cotillard. I loved that experience so much I'm truly sad that it's over!

I never practice before, I never work hours on a script. I just choose my characters and trust them, and after that, it's about the director taking your hand.

I was cast as a drunkard, and at my first rehearsal I came staggering onto the stage, then swayed about a bit. The director held up his hand. "Stop. What are you doing, Michael?" "I'm drunk in this scene," I explained, failing to hide my irritation that it had not been apparent.

I know that," he said. "But what are you doing? You're giving me an actor playing a drunk. I'm paying you to be a drunk. You're trying to talk slurred and walk crooked. A real drunk is trying to speak clearly and walk straight." My wise and wily repertory theatre director had summed up movie acting in one line, and I remember it and use it to this day. My

Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that's been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have.

The point could hardly have been clearer: if the president was pressuring the director because he feared that an investigation of Michael Flynn would damage him, then this was an obstruction of justice.

But the point really was that Trump had wanted to confront and humiliate the FBI director. Cruelty was a Trump attribute.

The first couple of times when I went to the White House, someone had to say, This is Mick Mulvaney, he's the budget director," said Mulvaney. And in Mulvaney's telling Trump was too scattershot to ever be of much help, tending to interrupt planning with random questions that seem to have come from someone's recent lobbying or by some burst of free association.

the firing of FBI director James Comey may be the most consequential move ever made by a modern president acting entirely on his own.