Mark Waters
Mark Waters
Mark Stephen Watersis an American screenwriter, director and producer. Waters is perhaps best known for directing the comedies Freaky Fridayand Mean Girls...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth30 June 1964
CityWyandotte, MI
CountryUnited States of America
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Usually, like, on 'Mean Girls,' the task that Tina Fey and I set for ourselves was we wanted to maintain a comic intensity throughout the movie, where people just don't really get a break from laughing. And if they do, it's for a brief emotional scene, and then we're going to once again try to knock them on their heels again with comedy.
When I'm in the middle of making a movie, I have blinders on; it's all about just getting the movie out.
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Once I went to film school, I realized that film directing was actually much better than theater directing, because you kind of get to stay in control of it all the way through. You don't relinquish the piece to the actors like you have to in theater; you stay in control through the very end.
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Unlike other young actors I've worked with who will remain nameless, Zoey Deutch and Lucy Fry would never go out partying after work, but would immediately hunker down to start working on the reams of labyrinthine dialogue they had to navigate for the next day's work.
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When I'm directing actors, I often find myself slipping in sports metaphors, like: 'Don't go for the punch line here, just put it up on a T-ball stand so she can hit it out of the park.'