Quotes about american-director
american-director audiences entire interested movies sort
If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career. Lana Wachowski
american-director genre mess start twist
With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
american-director films
There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again. Ted Demme
american-director people
No one is out to get you. It's just that... people are monkeys. Stan Brakhage
american-director billy bob brad clooney george known pitt stars
Billy Bob and Fran are very well known actors, but aren't the kind of movie stars in the sense that George Clooney and Brad Pitt are. Joel Coen
american-director dual external following haunted might searching shot truth
I shot a lot of close-ups on this movie 'cause there's like a dual mystery, she's searching through her haunted past to find some truth and she's also following an external mystery where she comes to think she might be the killer. Philip Kaufman
american-director analyze criticism films possible
I still think like a critic, and I still analyze films like a critic. However, it's not possible to write criticism if you're making films. Paul Schrader
american-director cast producer
You have to be a producer nowadays. You have to find the subject, find the writer, find the cameraman, cast it, and then you go to a producer. Vincente Minnelli
american-director came feature opportunity
When when my first feature opportunity came along, I wasn't prepared, but we did it in about 17 days. Richard Donner
american-director intimidate scene somebody
What I often find is it has to do with, is we need somebody who's in one scene to intimidate somebody who's over 5'10' and there I am on the set. John Sayles
american-director decision owned
Make every decision as if you owned the whole company. Robert Townsend
american-director bring children needs parents ratings system
On the other hand, I think the ratings system needs some reworking. I don't think this is a movie parents should bring underage children to.
american-director hal job
My first job on 2001 was to make all of the HAL readouts: the 16 screens that surround HAL's eyes. Douglas Trumbull
american-director somewhat stories telling
I don't think we soft-pedal anything. These stories are pretty extreme, but the way we're telling them makes them somewhat more humorous.
american-director borderline everybody magical screen sure
He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magical screen presence, you couldn't keep your eyes off him, but he was paranoid. He was sure everybody was out to get him. Mark Rydell
american-director eliminate excuses manager tasks
One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people's excuses for failure.
american-director becomes bit composure controlled maintain next repressed underneath
Because I actually find the next take after they've controlled it a little bit and repressed the laughter is actually a really interesting take, because that's still going on underneath the surface. That struggle to maintain composure becomes part of the joy of the scene. Jay Roach
american-director bigger both expect kinds movies scale smaller
Well all kinds of movies that you wouldn't expect that I'd want to do, both bigger scale and smaller scale than the ones I've done. Cameron Crowe
american-director archeology history medieval mesmerized period somebody student
I was mesmerized by what it would be like for somebody who was a student of history and archeology to go back to a medieval period and really live it.
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 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.
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. Penelope Spheeris
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 form francis half pick
I think Francis at half form is better than anybody else by 50%, you know? I think it's just that he has never... he has a late pick of the things that are ambitious enough for him.
american-director change crisis depends facing true
I do think that we are facing a crisis in our democracy. As true patriots, each and every one of us has to speak up, speak out, and change those in charge. Our democracy depends upon it. Robert Greenwald
american-director building career interested path steady wanders whatever
I don't see my career as this steady building to a point, it's just a path that wanders for me to do whatever I'm interested in doing.
american-director days future heart love remain simple sustained warming within
I am writing this because I love you, so that sustained within your warming heart our future days remain locked-to this simple message.
american-director week
I think, after about a week in, I started to get really down. I would feel better when I would eat. Morgan Spurlock
american-director digital evil images point remember view
Remember that the film is about the digital domain. From the point of view of the scenario, images are evil demons, if I can be so bold. Godfrey Reggio
american-director capability complex computer flat gate graphics light planes sequence star
Clearly, if we'd had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than flat planes of light and color.
american-director assistant critical director mood runs tenor
The first assistant director runs the set. The whole mood of the movie, the whole tenor of the set comes off that person, and it's just a critical choice. John Frankenheimer
american-director fact sequel
No, in fact I am embarrassed to say that I told everyone after the first Jeepers that I would never, ever make a sequel to any of my films. Victor Salva
american-director maybe mystique
Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there.