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"When a director can give you a word that allows you to feel less tense about yourself, to make you feel like you indeed are good enough before you even get to the work, you can't ask for anything more than that."
"It's either because of the number of times the scholar puts the boot into Peter Jackson the director of The Lord of the Rings films or is making a point they have never heard of."
"As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors."
"There is a magic thing called 'tone' in a film, that the director must master and maintain."
"At best, I think of a director as a magnet. You get all the metal fillings in all the individual actors and crew, and get those filings moving toward your magnetic direction."
"I love it when the director says, 'Rebel, just do whatever you want.' I'm, like, 'Yes!"
"He [Oliver Stone] is great. I really like working with directors who know what they want and aren't afraid to tell you, "Do it like this. Don't do it like that.""
"Great directors turn in mediocre work and first-time directors turn in exceptional work. No matter how good a person can talk about what he wants, you never know."
"Establishing what the vision is and being able to stick to it is the job, and everyone should be on the same page, going in. With that said, first-time director or not, you never know what you're going to get."
"I always feel like the less you say when you're making a movie, as a director, is the best. That means everything's going great."
"Certain directors are known for a certain kind of beauty; it becomes their signature."
"Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors."
"I'm friends with [David] Fincher. [James] Cameron gives me advice. I know a fair amount of directors who have been through it, and they all felt pretty confident that I would be fine when I got my shot. So their confidence made me feel confident."
"Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher."
"Every time I feel that I really hit critical mass and I'm in the right place is when I feel like the director and I become a third thing, and that's the character."
"Once you get the script, you then hope you can get the director that you want. Then you hope he can get the cast he wants. Again, you can go quickly or there can be a million stumbling blocks. There's just no way to know."
"Getting movies made is not as difficult as people think. Making movies is easy. You get a script, you get a director, you raise the money, you make the movie."
"In 'Beowulf,' director Robert Zemeckis uses a technique called 'motion capture' to conjure fantastical things, angles into action and sweeping vistas to stun your eyes and take your breath away. But what he hasn't mastered and what the technique can't do is this: emotion capture."
"People come up to me and say "Steve, what is film editing?" And I say "How should I know? You're the director."
"As a director myself, you want to have colleagues and collaborators that respect your authority as the director. I'm very comfortable with that, and I've done a lot of work in second unit."
