"I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn't want to be told what to do. I had no identification."
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"I always used to associate good directors as being ones who are totally extreme and have an answer for everything and there are no loose ends."
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"She's got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director."
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"I had one well known director who kept saying, "Now Clint, this is what ...." And I'd say, "I know. I read the script. I'm the one who cast you as the director. Let me show you and you'll correct me if I'm wrong.""
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"The only entry level position on a movie is director."
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"If the director's a communist, whatever, he's a communist. All I care is that he directs. For the actor, the same thing. All you really care is that he comes in and performs."
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"When you think of a particular director, you think you would have liked to be with them on one particular film and not necessarily on some other one."
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"I knew that's where I was going. I knew we were going to Italy. You couldn't make this movie in America at this price. I knew it was going to be big. I knew there was going to be a ship involved and that there was going to be a set as big as the ship. I thought, well, here we go. But I knew that was where he was headed. He had been going this way for some time. All directors, once they have some success, they want to spend a whole heck of a lot of money. (Something else can't hear.)"
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"Larry Kasdan is a great director."
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"All the films are hits before you turn the camera on. It's only in the execution that they fail. I've been less than happy with the way a couple of films were edited, but it's a director's prerogative and you gotta go with it."
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"Casting directors tend to be the unsung heroes in this business."
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"A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is."
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"As a director, I hoped that I was able to help the actors by giving them the space and the respect they need and the trust. I gave them what I always felt I needed when I was working."
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"Working with [Robert] De Niro taught me a lot about being an actor's director."
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"I've learned a lot from Clint [Eastwood], who's an extremely economical director."
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"I'm shy to call myself a director still. When someone says, 'What do you do for a living?' I don't know if I've earned that."
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"There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment."
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"I always thought it would be very funny if I was a blind film director."
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"I was thrown in the deep end at 18 when I got cast in a movie that I didn't audition for. The director just sort of found me and put me in a film, so the decision was really made for me."
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"Lloyd Richards is another director who was like that, who was a teacher."
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