Gene Wilder
Actor, comedian
"Time is a precious thing. Never waste it."
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Directors
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Gene Wilder
Actor, comedian
"Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple"
Paramahansa Yogananda
Spiritual Teacher, Author
"No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit"
Gary Johnson
Politician, Businessman
"As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it."
Alfred Hitchcock
Director, Producer, Screenwriter
"In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director."
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"The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture."
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"A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard."
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"I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad."
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"To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script."
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"The very nature of cool is that you think about it too much and it becomes uncool."
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"I should mention that I am a member of the board of directors of Dimensional Fund Advisors."
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"I've really enjoyed my work in television, but the problem for me is the turnover of directors every week."
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"I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me."
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"I like, as a director and a spectator, simple, direct, frank films. Nothing disgusts me more than snobbism, mannerism, technical gratuity... and, most of all, intellectualism."
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"Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted? And If I am compelled to take part in it, where is the director? I want to see him."
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"Cast PURPOSE as the lead in your movie and you will help God, your Director, produce a masterwork."
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"Existence for eternity could get a little boring... especially towards the end."
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"The entire universe is God's cosmic motion picture, and that individuals are merely actors in the divine play who change roles through reincarnation; mankind's deep suffering is rooted in identifying too closely with one's current role, rather than with the movie's director, or God."
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"Oh, what the hell did I know? I went to the set the first day in full makeup and the director told me to take it off. So I did the film without makeup. I had nothing to do with anything I did. I never understood why I was so famous."
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"All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love."
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"When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process."
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"If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter."
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"I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach."
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"I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the director wanted me. The writer wanted me. Joe Levine said no, I don't want any comedians in this."
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"The best director is the one you don't see."
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