Quotes about american-director
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
american-director bit contract grew less pieces player work
I was doing acting work at Fox - bit pieces with Greg Peck in The Gunfighter and things like that - and grew up more or less as a Fox contract player in about two years.
american-director producer union
I wanted to be a director and producer and writer, but in the early '40's the union wouldn't let you get through the gates. You couldn't get on a crew, or even learn to direct.
american-director came died hard
It's... a hard thing for a director, to think you came up with a shot, something from your mind, and someone died while doing it. It's the worst thing you'll ever have to live with. It was very hard for me to get back on the horse again. Michael Bay
american-director films
I made three films with Douglas, two with Charles Boyer. Vincente Minnelli
american-director poet
Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence.
american-director blood born music poetry privilege silver spoon
To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed.
american-director million reckon
I reckon this could mean another 10 million at the box office. Blake Edwards
american-director experience time
It's been my experience that every time I think I know where it's at, it's usually somewhere else.
american-director man
When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man. Stanley Kubrick
american-director asked interested opened praised somebody
If anything, if you can get somebody interested in something and get them excited, that's great. You should be praised for having opened the debate and having asked the right questions. Oliver Stone
american-director guy michael movies named wanna
The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director. George A. Romero
american-director van
We shot that in all the real places where Van Gogh worked.
american-director
That's what I think musicals will come to. No backstage stories, nothing of that sort.
american-director nowadays
Nowadays the audience has changed. No one can anticipate the audience.
american-director car kansas music saying
In the back of your mind, when you say you want to write music for the movies, you're saying that you want a big house, a big car and a boat. If you just wanted to write music, you could live in Kansas and do it. Bill Conti
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.
american-director city permanent power
The permanent power brokers of this city are the columnists.
american-director art fish footprint leave opportunity wrap
It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work.
american-director built pride reading
When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.
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.
american-director
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 apart country falls money tear
France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper. Billy Wilder
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