"You never know as a director what other directors do. Because you don't get to see what they do."
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"However happy the director is, I have to be okay with it. I'm pretty strict with myself, about throwing things out or trying to be true to whatever the situation dictates."
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"I wanted to trust in my partners and the directors and producers and do the best I can to deliver what I could deliver."
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"I do not talk to the FBI directors about pending investigations [on Hillary Clinton]."
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"The film [Dream of Life] is the way it is because it was the rhythm of my life, and also because the director and the editor are both gifted and both fine human beings."
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"I think that I just need to work with great directors and actors, people who are better than me, so that I am challenged."
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"There are some actresses who cannot function on the set without having a close relationship with their directors. Their way of communicating with the director is through intimacy. It doesn't necessarily have to do with any physical act; it has more to do with achieving a closeness that they find very valuable."
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"The relationship between an actress and her director is often a very close one."
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"Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so advantageous to go to a place that you already have a feel for, a literal and spiritual familiarity."
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"Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which isn't very common. I like to do my characters, if it's not specific in the script, as myself."
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"When I'm filming a kill scene [as a director], I just get happier and happier as we chop up body parts."
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"Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore."
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"When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director."
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"On the film where I didn't get along with the director, I just decided to not speak to him."
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"I have a real thing for Mexican directors. And I love Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu."
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"I'm lucky that I've worked with so many different directors with very different styles and with a lot of different actors."
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"If I were in the director's chair, I would cast [Geena Davis] in something awesome every six months if I had the choice."
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"I operate the camera, I always do it when I'm the director, and I like to approach it as a documentary, finding the images based on what happens, as it happens."
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"Simon Collinson, of digital publisher Canelo and über-cool Aussie mag The Lifted Brow, is our digital producer; Sarah Shin, Verso's comms director, is helping us out with press publicity; Soraya Gilanni, who mainly does production and set design for films and commercials, is our art director."
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"I know, as an actor, I don't like sharing everything with the director. And it's fine if they don't with me."
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