(434 quotes found)
“Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.”
Fanny Brice
“With a good script, a good director can produce a masterpiece. With the same script, a mediocre director can produce a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can't possibly make a good film. For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water. The script must be something that has the power to do this”
Akira Kurosawa
“[Alex Cox, director of] Sid and Nancy, ... the closest sensory approximation of an acid trip ever achieved by a mainstream movie.”
Hunter S. Thompson
“A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.”
Billy Wilder
“Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge has unveiled a new color-coded system to warn the public about different states of danger. Red is the highest state of alert, and it means that Dick Cheney is about to eat a mozzarella stick.”
Conan O'Brien
“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.”
Orson Welles
“I had just arrived in Hollywood and didn't have a manager or agent. A very well known director contacted my modeling agency and said he had a small part for me in a big action film,”
Charlize Theron
“The company has effectively accepted only two of three of the committee's director nominees and thereby violated Korean law.”
Warren Lichtenstein
“Andrew Stanton, the writer and director of ”
Finding Nemo
“That's a little Screen Gems horror flick that David Winkler, son of famous director Irwin Winkler, directed and basically rewrote while we were shooting it, which is always a tricky situation, ... I think that if I had known it was going to be a complete rewrite during shooting, it may have been something I would have thought about a little longer.”
Jensen Ackles
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