Director Quotes (page 29)

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• king
• good
• nature

When you look at the early-'30s movies, like King Kong, the codes of acting are very similar to those of silent movies. In some of the silent movies - the good ones, the ones done by the best directors - the acting is very, very natural. Michel Hazanavicius

• french
• thinking
• frenchman

But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director. Whether I'm French or Australian or whatever, it's really not important. Michel Hazanavicius

• women
• expectation
• men

Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't. Kathleen Turner

• honoring
• theaters
• board of directors

I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater. Janine Turner

• different
• differ
• every

Every director is completely different. Miranda Otto

• success
• failure
• film

A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders. Robin Tunney

• work
• thinking
• much

I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be. Bill Condon

• thinking
• moments
• fan

But you really - I always think that a director has got to adapt to whatever the needs of the actor are. You know, so if you take someone like Eddie Murphy, who is not a big fan of rehearsal. You know he comes out of stand-up. He comes - it's all about capturing the moment - in the moment, you know. Bill Condon

• father
• life
• work

My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director. Edward Tufte

• creativity
• different
• differ

A lot of directors, they're creative, but they're different. Chris Tucker

• work
• directors
• majority

The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors. Stanley Tucci

• encouragement
• encouraging
• one line

I'm actually one who will encourage directors to cut my lines. Stanley Tucci

• learning
• watch
• sit

As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting. Stanley Tucci

• caring
• film
• over

As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over. Stanley Tucci

• thinking
• frustration
• actor

I'm becoming a frustrated director, I think, in an actor's body. David Wenham