Quotes about american-director
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 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 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. John Milius
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 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 mean
When I was 50, I said, 'That's it,' And they said, 'How?' I said, 'What do you mean how? I've been working now for 50 years now.'
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 banks biggest crooks glorify robbing shares
I don't want to glorify robbing banks, but I come from a world that shares Willis's view, that banks and so on are the biggest crooks of them all. Richard Linklater
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. Douglas Trumbull
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 brought guess involved rodney
When he brought it to me four years ago, Rodney King had just arrived, I was involved in the clean-up of L.A. and I guess it was part of my experience. Kathryn Bigelow
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. Joel Coen
american-director genre
It's almost like a genre rule: Don't Open The Box.
american-director architecture
The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.
american-director hard pin script work
These things are hard to pin down. We work on a script a bit, then work on a different one.
american-director written
Barton Fink got written very quickly, in about three weeks. I don't know what that means.
american-director
You see a moral in them? Do we have morals?
american-director bit
The question is: Where would it get you if something that's a little bit ambiguous in the movie is made clear? It doesn't get you anywhere.
american-director becomes careers cautionary funny harder hope maybe slow sort
It's a funny thing because you look at the careers of other filmmakers, and you see them sort of slow down, and you realize, maybe this becomes harder to do as you get older. That's sort of a cautionary thing. I hope it doesn't happen to me.
american-director character class individual specific talking
You're doing it to make the character as specific as possible, so that it's a specific individual that you're talking about, not that whole class of people.
american-director movies remarkably
We've been remarkably lucky in that we've been free to make the movies we've wanted to make the way we've wanted to make them. They've all been made for a price.
american-director bring kinds people persona terms
Other kinds of movie stars, it's a different thing, they bring their persona to the part and that's what people like to see, and they are not really transforming in terms of their character.
american-director people work
People that have been interested in our work for awhile... those are the last people you want to disappoint.
american-director handling
If the material is challenging, it forces you to challenge yourself when handling it.
american-director cage people point raising virtually worked
The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they weren't really stars yet. Nicolas Cage was not a big star when we did Raising Arizona. A lot of these people were also virtually unknown, too, when we worked with them first.