"There are a lot of directors who are knowledgeable about images, and others who aren't."
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"Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with."
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"Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work."
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"Working with green screen, you really rely on the director in a way that you don't on different types of films."
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"Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too."
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"Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing."
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"As an artist, program directors always want to put you in a little box."
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"When I was in college, my brother, B.R. Chopra, who is everything to me, was a director in Bombay. He taught me filmmaking. What I am today is because of him."
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"I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies."
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"I'm doing my best. I read in the paper that I'm an action director. They always say that, "Action director Walter Hill", if they bother writing about me at all. I think that's fine. I'm happy to do the work."
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"Snoop Scorsese, that's my director name."
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"Any great director is also someone who is incredibly intelligent about whom they hire around them."
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"Many casting directors won't hire aspiring actors because you might be burning some chick's headshot under the table so she doesn't get the part."
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"People have nervous tics they don't know about, and I would advise asking around. Ask the casting director, 'Is there something I'm doing?' I would see people unconsciously rocking back and forth. I roll my lips. I bite my lips and roll them."
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"What you want, as an actor, is a great leader. I can't bear it when I work with a director who is wishy-washy and says, "What did you think?""
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"A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a director an army."
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"Among today's directors I'm of course impressed by Steven Spielberg and Scorsese, and Coppola, even if he seems to have ceased making films, and Steven Soderbergh - they all have something to say, they're passionate, they have an idealistic attitude to the filmmaking process. Soderbergh's Traffic is amazing. Another great couple of examples of the strength of American cinema is American Beauty and Magnolia."
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"There are many directors in the middle range who've made mostly successful pictures, and then there are a few great directors who've had some successes and some failures. I suppose my life would be smoother if I wasn't almost totally enamored of the latter category."
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"I'd like to decide who comes here. I'd like to be the admissions director of New York."
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"I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director."
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