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I was brought up playing games and still do ferociously. I once played Connect Four on set with Bill Nighy and Richard E. Grant for so long that the assistant director got cross.
My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
I have always believed that when a film is being made, it has to be the director's vision.
I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started.
Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.
As a journalist, as a screenwriter and as a director, I'm trying to tell compelling and truthful stories.
I was a painter, then a novelist, then a journalist, then a screenwriter, and now I'm a director, and it feels all part of the same continuum. One led to the other, and it just feels like the natural confluence of all the ways of storytelling that I've been doing for almost 30 years.
If I had not been successful as a director, then I'm sure I would still be telling stories. I would have continued on 16mm or found a different medium through which to tell them.
When a show's already established, and a director comes to set, it can be quite the intimidating experience.
I had become a film director because I thought I could express something in an artful way.
One thing I know is that I don't want to be a director for hire, making genre films.
It's a very tricky relationship, the cinematographer and the director as a woman.
If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
The writer and the director are ultimately responsible for what is portrayed and glorified in a film. Then comes the producer.
We should release films without revealing the director's name, as his or her gender would not be a barometer to watch those films.
A lecturer once told me I could never be a director. I was 16. I believed him.
Even after nine flops, an actor will get his tenth film. But, if a director gives a flop after nine hits, he will not get another film. That is the way the industry functions.
It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors.
You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.
I was director of governmental affairs at the Cleveland school district. I served in the administration of Mayor Michael R. White.
The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.
An actor can be as talented as another, but if he doesn't stick to what the director's intentions are, it all falls down. I adore working with actors.
Rituparno Ghosh is a legendary director, and I happen to be a huge fan of his.
A film is a director's vision... there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have.
As an actress I knew I had to control my weight gain somehow as any director or producer would like to sign in a svelte actress.
Not every director does this, but I did: I made a list of every shot you're going to set up for every scene in the script.
Your job as a director is to study the show, understand the show, understand the vibe, the tone, the characters.
Technically, you can learn everything on the set as an assistant director, and rather quickly.
I have been an art director, a book designer, a book-jacket designer and an interior designer.
I studied physical therapy, and I started to study theater because my aunt is a theater director.
The first-time director thing is just another label somebody puts on you.
When I was director of the CIA, I knew that we had been - and I'm choosing my words very carefully here - effective in our expansion. We really had - expansion of government agencies and expansion of use of contractors. Effective, we were; efficient, we weren't. And so, as director of the CIA, I went after the inefficiencies part.
ThinThread was not the program of record of my predecessor, Ken Minihan, OK. I did not make ThinThread the program of record while I was director. After I left in 2005, Keith Alexander also chose not to make ThinThread the program of record.
Jack Bender is a real actor's director. Because he was an actor, and because he directed theater, he really enjoys that process.
As a producer and director, I've tried for years to get properties off the ground for girls, and I've been hitting a brick wall.
I'm not going to be a coach or a director - they are not roles that I would like.
I first started working in film when I was 17. I was a director's assistant, an editor.
As a director, I get to have a much broader creative expression than as an actress.
I never feel like a smug or a smart-alec film director, and there are plenty of those around.
I worked as a writer, lead designer, and creative director in the game industry.
One of the major aspects of film composing is that it's not so much a musical thing as it is communicating your ideas with the director, who often does not come from a musical background.
When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
My last film as director, the National Award winning 'Zakhm,' barely managed to break even. So why should I listen to so-called sensibilities of a handful of critics?
After I completed the project for BCG, I was offered the position of Director of Marketing for Ozon.ru.
I randomly went to a casting session in my hometown in North Carolina, and the casting director introduced me to my manager. I really lucked into it!
I met my agent through a casting director here in Wilmington after I auditioned for a Disney movie.
I had actually auditioned for a guest star role on 'Legends of Tomorrow,' and the show had the same casting director as 'Riverdale.'
Filmmaking has always involved pairs: a director coupled with a producer, a director alongside an editor... The notion of couples is not foreign to cinema.
The director, of course, was Bob Fosse. But again, I worked with my father to prepare for the role.
I began my work as director of the Arab American Association of New York in the wake of the horrific attacks of 9/11.
The 9/11 Commission strongly recommends that the National Intelligence Director be fully in control of the budget, from developing it to implementing it, to ensuring that the National Intelligence Director has the clout to make decisions.
I have a very clear vision, and I come from film, where director is God, so if there's a clash, it's painful.
As a film director and as film actors, you get used to a certain rhythm that's slow. But with TV, it's hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry. It's a different pace.
I want to learn. I want to stretch my muscles as a director and work under different circumstances.
Director of any film is very important, and an actor has to leave himself in his hands to mould.
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.
A lot of people are very interested that a Korean director has made a western. But when I look at the reactions of the audience, I realise the points at which people laugh are the same for a Korean audience and an international audience.
I've done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.
A casting director who'd cast me in 'Assassins' sent a video to Kevin Reynolds, the director, and Mel Gibson, whose company is producing '187.' Then I went in and auditioned, and a few hours later, they called me.
I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.
The director is a Canadian, Jeff Stephenson, and any time I get a script that has any Canadian component, I'm always immediately much more interested.
I started off as an assistant director in Mani Ratnam's 'Ayudha Ezhuthu' and 'Yuva.'
I was six years old when I saw my first Godard movie, eight when I first experienced Bergman. I wanted to be a director when I was fourteen.
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