Quotes about american-director
american-director eighty great script
It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it. William Wyler
american-director business hopefully inevitably means people showing taking time
Well, we're in show business, and I have been making a living in this business a long time and inevitably it means taking what it is that you've done and hopefully you're showing it to a lot of people who like it. Walter Hill
american-director guy oh
It's really about, oh come on, this guy wouldn't say that or he wouldn't do that, you know, it's about the characters, about the story, about the situation.
american-director interested next time
I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.
american-director good somebody
Somebody once said, you have to wait 20 years before you can tell if a movie's any good or not so that's probably true.
american-director change might
If I could go back I might change Geronimo a bit. If I do, it will be made a longer version.
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I never do, I don't even go to the retrospectives.
american-director
I always say the next one is my favorite.
american-director
Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.
american-director
I think it's fair to say I've always been a boxing fan.
american-director experience guess harder southern time
I guess I never had a better experience than working on The Long Riders, and at the same time, I never had a harder time than what I did making Southern Comfort.
american-director ask crew hit hugh note seen
If you ask any person on this crew what they think of Hugh Jackman they'll admit they've never seen anything like it. I'll give him an emotional note and he'll hit it every time. Darren Aronofsky
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The American public does not know poets exist. James Broughton
american-director prove strangest
Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point. Richard Linklater
american-director financed trying
I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing.
american-director
I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors.
american-director farther hundred nourished poems poetry
Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers.
american-director children common running
In other countries, it's a common thing to have outcast children running around the streets in packs, and I don't think we're so far away from it here. Penelope Spheeris
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It is the idea that it's a movie in a movie. So I did it.
american-director literally rabid
Rabid fans were literally jumping into the camera.
american-director attribute executives forgotten good people simple
Most of the good executives do pretty well. Because to be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage. John Milius
american-director maybe telling terms understanding
Maybe our telling of the story wasn't as clear as it should have been, but I don't think that's true. In terms of understanding the story, it comes across. Joel Coen
american-director believe good gotta touch
I'm here to make good pictures. If I don't see it, I won't touch it. I may not make a good picture, but I still gotta believe in it!
american-director gone laughter sad start tears wonder
I wonder if I had gone for laughter and tears from the start how sad (the movie) would've been. Cameron Crowe
american-director found money passionate worked
I worked for the studios, making those comedies, and I found I could make enough money then to be able to do the work I was passionate about.
american-director great worked
I worked for a lot of great directors. Richard Donner
american-director commercial
I was very lucky. I started my own commercial company.
american-director limited
I was very limited in what I could do with flying saucers, because they're just a metal disc. I had to try and put character in as if they were intelligently guided. Ray Harryhausen
american-director capable people
I think people are capable of everything I've written. Would they ever do it? I don't know and really don't care, because that's not my business. Neil LaBute
american-director committed finish gonna people stuff tired
I think I'm gonna finish up the stuff I've already committed to and then take a little break, 'cuz I just don't want people to get tired of me. Kevin Smith
american-director became degree lasted popular time truth
Yeah, I think that's it... It's like Jesse James. He became really popular because he lasted so long. You know, there is some degree of truth to the fact that time will dignify anything, too.
american-director feeding stuff
You know, why don't you take him off all this stuff you have him hopped up on, all this garbage that we're feeding him, all this sugar and caffeine, and then see what happens? Morgan Spurlock
american-director catch city dinner foot press table television washington
Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference.