Quotes About Director

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. James Dean

In Dreams... well, I was slightly overcompensating with that. I was a bit like a director for hire, so maybe I was putting too much imagery that was familiar to me into it.

And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.

Movies are not scripts - movies are films they're not books, they're not the theatre.

She would take control of her dreaming and make it work for her, like a film director, creating a movie in which she was both the scriptwriter and the leading actor.

I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.

The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents.

Eddie Takesue. Takesue had joined Purdue as director of clinical research in 1975.

My filmmaking education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films. I learned the technical stuff from books and magazines, and with the new technology you can watch entire movies accompanied by audio commentary from the director. You can learn more from John Sturges' audio track on the 'Bad Day at Black Rock' laserdisc than you can in 20 years of film school. Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it.

Nobody really controls a production, now; the director is on his own, even if he's insecure, careless, or nuts.

Varna hired Joséphine to star in the 1930–31 show called Paris qui Remue, or Swinging Paris, and he planned to alternate the years in which Mistinguett and Joséphine starred. Mistinguett objected strongly to the shared show. She also complained about the director's purchase

Okay. But, he didn't do anything to hurt people. OW: Well, he destroyed [Erich] von Stroheim, as a man and as an artist. Literally destroyed him. And von Stroheim at that moment was, I think, demonstrably the most gifted director in Hollywood. Von Stroheim was the greatest argument against the producer. He was so clearly a genius, and so clearly should have been left alone—no matter what crazy thing he did—

You become a director by calling yourself a director and you then persuade other people that this is true.

Iš teisyb?s, režisierius niekada negali pripažinti, kad tai jo pirmasis pastatymas. Gird?jau, jog pradedantis hipnotizuotojas niekuomet neprasitaria pacientui hipnotizuoj?s pirm?kart.

If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work.

Dr. Dick McCool, director of Electroconvulsive Therapy at Gartly-Ramsay