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Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films.
I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan.
I get involved with projects based on three parameters - the script, the actors involved and the director.
I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.
I painted from the time I was five years old. I was going to be a painter, an actor, a director, and a writer.
My director, Monty Marsh, is really awesome - I've been working with him for years now.
My process is very disempowering to the director anyway, so it's essential that you be respectful. Once we've sort of found the scene, I have to get out of there, because you don't want to split the actor's idea of who's in charge.
Working with Sam Mendes was a dream come true. He's unbelievable as a director.
When I started crediting myself as writer and director, I saw that as a political act.
I'm not a frustrated movie director: I'm not making games because I can't make movies.
I always knew that all it would take was for the right director to put me in a movie.
The majority of people know me as a dancer, but they don't also know that I'm a director, a songwriter and a producer.
I was in a TV show called 'Lucky' on FX. The casting director from 'Lucky' was casting 'Dragon Wars'. She called me in to meet with the producer and audition, and I got it from there.
I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.
Theater is a lot more interactive, more of a cohesive unit. With television, it can be a different director every episode.
You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.
And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy a director of category B, not a big director.
I'm very instinctive when I choose my roles, and usually, the number one thing has to be the director.
The thing about 'Spectre' is that it is not the work of hack writers. It does not have a hack director. The actors are not hams.
In film producing, there is an inherent tension between the director, the money and the producer, and that's what keeps it flowing and honest and accountable.
Having a director who is also an actor makes for that very relaxed way of working and it's empowering.
Frank Capra's grandson was a second Assistant Director on 'Christmas Vacation.'
The director is planning on titling the film 'Yummy Fur' so we are probably planning on changing the title of the book to 'Yummy Fur' to match the film.
I really think that Steven Caple, Jr. is going to be a great addition to the 'Rocky' director pantheon.
Every week, I take two phone calls or meetings with an aspiring producer or director.
Indeed, the actor's lot is a much harder one than that of the director's, from one simple standpoint: The actor has to play the eight shows a week.
I believe the director's primary role is to create an atmosphere where his company can be created.
I never turned down anything and never argued with any producer or director.
Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process.
I think the atmosphere on set really comes from the material, but also the director.
Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied.
Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control.
A digital director shouldn't be out front, but a campaign manager's job is to set a narrative.
I think that's the key to being a director: to be able to get the shot and move on quickly.
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
It was my band. I organized the band and Dizzy was in the band. Dizzy was the first musical director with the band. Charlie Parker was in the band. But, no, no, that was my band.
I came up in the community center. I used to be physical director of the South Central Community Center in Chicago on 83rd. It's still there. It used to be around there when I was a kid.
I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm.
There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.
If everybody had 100% record of hits and flops, there would have been no surprises. There's not one director with 100% success rate.
I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
If my favourite director gives me a role that is very sparkly? A very brilliant character? I'll do it.
I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director.
Directors such as LV Prasad would enact the whole scene for the actors. He used to enact the scenes for Raj Kapoor too during the filming of 'Sharda.' But it was up to you to emulate the director's vision on the screen.
I graduated from the American Film Institute in 2010, where I studied as a director, and came out with a few features I really wanted to make.
I share a very good rapport with Shah Rukh, so I was at ease working with him, and Imtiaz is a dream director for any actor.
My father, John Marcellus Huston, was a director renowned for his adventurous style and audacious nature.
I loved working with Stephen Frears. He's a really fantastic director. He knows what he wants and how to get it.
I was asked if I'd audition for a part in a Broadway musical because the director just loved me.
I was an apprentice at the San Francisco Ballet, and a casting director came to one of our rehearsals to scout talent for 'Center Stage.' I landed the role of Jodie.
I knew when I was about 14 that I wanted to be a director and that I wanted to go to NYU for film school.
It was director Krishna Reddy who introduced me as a hero. All my films with him have been very successful.
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
I didn't plan to be a director until I was 35. For years I wanted to do anything but!
Especially as a director on 'West Wing,' I directed a lot of different things in a lot of different ways and really stretched my wings.
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