"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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"You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life."
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"After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled: “She can't talk! She can't act! She's sensational!”"
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"Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?"
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"A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself."
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"My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director."
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"The best directors I've worked with, they all have the same thing in common. They're the first to say, 'I don't know.' If you ask them, 'How are we actually pulling off this movie?', they'll just shrug and go, 'I have absolutely no idea.'"
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"The director is the channel through which a motion picture reaches the screen."
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"I learned a lot from Clint [Eastwood], who's an extremely economic director. I learned a lot from Michael Winterbottom, who really gave a lot of trust in the actors and allowed them to live in the space instead of trying to manipulate and make it too set and too staged. Working with [Robert] De Niro taught me a lot of being an actors' director and what that is. I've learned a lot from pretty much everybody. Hopefully I've picked up something from everybody I've worked with."
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"The theater audience is the ultimate teacher, instructing the actor on the degree to which he has executed both the author's and the director's intent."
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"I am not funny. The writers were funny. My directors were funny. The situations were funny… What I am is brave. I have never been scared. Not when I did movies, certainly not when I was a model and not when I did I Love Lucy."
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"I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director."
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"I believe that the officers, and, especially, the directors, of corporations should be held personally responsible when any corporation breaks the law."
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"Zooms are lazy closeups. And too many people hang their hats on video assist; it's a way to avoid too much. Video assist helps people dissociate from the scene that they are directing. Pretty soon the director will be directing all the way from his apartment."
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"Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all."
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"I think a good director casts a film so that the actors bring a lot to the table."
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