Quotes starting with A Page 2192

“As a director you want to have actors, not only surpassing themselves, but also going somewhere, going different places.”

Want Different Actors Directors Different Place Surpassing

Author:Xavier Dolan

“As a director you want to show the truth of people and sometimes that's unflattering, or it's not something that people want to see.”

People Want Sometimes Shows Directors

Author:Julian Jarrold

“As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.”

Way Actors Acting Watches Directors

Author:Stanley Tucci

“As a director, I do very few takes, because I feel like you hire the right actor and they'll do the job right. And the directors that I've worked with and had the best luck with - Jason and [ Steven] Soderbergh and the Coen brothers - all have been that kind of director.”

Feels Kind Has Beens Jobs Actors Brother Like You Directors Luck Jason Coen Brothers

Author:George Clooney

“As a director, I get to have a much broader creative expression than as an actress.”

Creative Expression Directors Actresses Creative Expression

Author:Mary Stuart Masterson

“As a director, I have to do everything. As an actor, I'm just worried about one role, that's it. As a director, everything is important. Everything is something you have to be very detailed and specific about in telling a story. So for me, the job is far greater than just being the actor, there's a lot more responsibility creatively, technically.”

Important Responsibility Worried

Author:Tasha Smith

“As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic.”

Feels Actors Directors Plastic Realism

Author:Tommy Wiseau

“As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic. The words for me are secondary, but the chemistry between the actors is most important. However, you have to go by the script because it's related to production, otherwise you will not finish your project.”

Feels Important Actors Directors Projects Scripts Productions Related Chemistry Plastic Realism

Author:Tommy Wiseau

“As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic. The words for me are secondary, but the chemistry between the actors is most important. However, you have to go by the script because it's related to production, otherwise you will not finish your project. My background are acting, film production, directing, and I studied them for many years. Keep in mind that you need many other skills when you are starting any film project related to real life.”

Mind Important Real Film Acting Real Life Chemistry

Author:Tommy Wiseau

“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.”

Needs Giving Helping Able Actors Felt Space Needed Directors

Author:Angelina Jolie

“As a director, I know everybody's job, and I know how to do it. I can smell bullshit when someone's telling me it can't be done, because I've seen it done a hundred thousand times.”

Done Bullshit

Author:Tim Matheson

“As a director, I like trying to unlock the subtext of the scene and try to put the camera in a place that helps that.”

Trying Helping Scene Directors Cameras Subtext

Author:David Brooks

“As a director, I never feel that I have the answers.”

Feels Answers Directors

Author:Diane Paulus

“As a director, I only know how to do it one way, is to pour my heart and soul into everything.”

Heart Soul My Heart Heart And Soul

Author:David Nutter

“As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how to just do things and work with good people.”

People Wanted Stuff My Own Figures Needed Directors Get Away Good People

Author:Paul Feig

“As a director, I try not to implement a way for working, for every single actor, across the board. I try to work with each one, on an individual basis.”

Trying Individual

Author:Justin Simien

“As a director, I wouldn't like me as an actor. As an actor, I wouldn't like me as a director.”

Actors Directors Like Me

Author:Robert Redford

“As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along.”

Feels Should Has Beens Able Actors Directors Should Have Producers I've Learned Should Have Been

Author:Griffin Dunne

“As a director, if you know what you want, then it's not scary.”

Ifs Knows Want Directors Scary What You Want

Author:Joseph Kosinski

“As a director, it's my job to provoke, and when people decided 'The Room' be called a phenomenon, or whatever you call it, it's fine with me.”

People Jobs Rooms Fine Directors Decided Phenomenon Provoking

Author:Tommy Wiseau

“As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.”

Jobs Actors Directors Protect Scripts Designer Cameraman

Author:Stephen Frears

“As a director, or just a film fan who wants to enjoy the festival, Cannes is the worst place to be. But it must be a paradise for distributors and importers.”

Want Film Enjoy Fans Worst Directors Paradise Festivals Distributors Cannes Cannes Film Festival

Author:Bong Joon-ho

“As a director, there is nothing more fun than seeing an audience screaming and jumping. You are the ultimate puppet master, controlling the emotions of the audience.”

Fun Emotion Audience Seeing Masters Directors Ultimate Jumping Puppets Puppet Master

Author:Fede Alvarez

“As a director, try to be humble and not to overdo it, not overcoverage and over-covering the scene.”

Trying Scene Directors Humble Covering Be Humble

Author:Jean-Marc Vallee

“As a director, when you cut scenes from a movie, you do it with the idea that it is making the story move forward and progress. Sometimes, you don't realize that something is actually a sidetrack for the story, or it takes the tension out of a scene.”

Ideas Sometimes Stories Moving Realizing Cutting Progress Scene Directors Moving Forward Tension

Author:Catherine Hardwicke

“As a director, you always want things to look good. You're always trying to make things look tidy. That's what we're all trained to do.”

Want Trying Looks Directors Always Trying Tidy

Author:Declan Lowney

“As a director, you can transform your vision more with the music.”

Vision Directors

Author:Fatih Ak?n

“As a director, you have a thousand things going on in your head, and of course, that's going to be difficult. That's going to mean that some things get overlooked. And so, for us as performers, being the selfish pricks that we are, we're sitting there being concerned about ourselves all the time and our character's through-line.”

Mean Character Courses Difficult Lines Thousand Directors Sitting Concerned Selfish Performers Overlooked

Author:Jamie Campbell Bower

“As a director, you have to go in with a really, really, really clear picture of what you want. That's the point of my commentaries. It's so difficult because you're the harshest critic.”

Want Difficult Clear Directors Critics What You Want Commentary

Author:David Slade

“As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.”

Ifs Directors Happenings Making Changes

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“As a director, you just have to kind of like just get through the first project before starting on the next one.”

Firsts Kind Next Directors Projects Starting The Next One

Author:Joshua Michael Stern

“As a director, you should choose a project that will educate you and enrich your life, because you're going to be doing it for two years.”

Should Years Two Directors Projects Two Years Educate

Author:Rob Marshall

“As a director, you try to do things that are going to touch the human experience somehow, and emotions that mean something to people. You search for those projects and you hope to realize the potential in a project.”

People Trying Humans Mean Realizing Emotion Directors Projects Human Experience

Author:Catherine Hardwicke

“As a director, you try to find what is creative.”

Trying Creativity Creative Directors

Author:Jan de Bont

“As a director, you want to be really connected to every part of your set, from your actors all the way to your camera operators. Everybody is a part of the creative process, and if they feel like they're part of a team versus just being a tool, they're going to give you something special.”

Ifs Way Want Giving Feels Actors Process Creative Team Special Directors Tools Cameras Connected Creative Process Just Being Versus Something Special Operators

Author:Eric Balfour

“As a director, you're given a tremendous apparatus to work with, and very great talents are available to you.”

Given Talent Directors Available Great Talent

Author:William Monahan

“As a director, you're only as good as your collaborators. You surround with collaborators that are going to understand what you're trying to do. Not only that, they're going to push and fight for what you're trying to do.”

Trying Fighting Directors Surround Collaborators

Author:Alfonso Cuaron

“As a director, you've got to have quite a few projects going because you never know which one will actually come together with the financing and get the green light.”

Knows Light Together Directors Projects Green Financing Green Lights

Author:Catherine Hardwicke

“As a director, your job can range from having to lean on someone to get a performance out of them, to someone being so built for the part that all you have to do is make them feel confident and comfortable and assured of what they're actually doing, and you just wind them up and watch them go.”

Author:Shane Meadows

“As a director, your job is to make sure no one for any reason is taken out of the film. Sometimes it's impossible and sometimes things don't come out the way you want them to, but I think you have to work really hard at making the world engrossing and details are a major part of that.”

Thinking World Way Want Sometimes Hard Reason Jobs Film Taken Impossible Directors Majors Details

Author:Cary Fukunaga

“As a director/writer/producer, all you ever want is to work with actors who make you look better, who make the work you do seem as good as it can be and even better than it is.”

Want Looks Seems Actors Directors Producers

Author:J. J. Abrams

“As a disabled man, let my life be a reflection of the endless amount of ability that exists in each and everyone of us.”

Men Life Is Ability Amount Reflection Endless Disability Disabled People With Disabilities Learning Disability

Author:Robert M. Hensel

“As a dispensation, grace begins with the death and resurrection of Christ (Rom. 3:24-26; 4:24,25). The point of testing is no longer legal obedience as the condition of salvation, but acceptance or rejection of Christ, with good works as a fruit of salvation. . . .”

Christ Grace Conditions Acceptance Salvation Fruit Obedience Rejection Resurrection Good Work Testing

Author:C. I. Scofield

Source: The Old ScofieldRG Study Bible, KJV, Standard Edition

“As a divorced man, I can say from experience that there may come a time when a couple decides it is best to live separate lives: where you have different dreams and are no longer willing to make sacrifices to achieve the other’s goal.”

Divorce Relationship Advice Seperation Relationship Advice Quotes Divorce Quotes Divorcing

Author:Carlos Wallace

Source: The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity

“As a divorced parent, working with Dr.Walfish has been a gift. Due to her thoughtful, sensitive and highly educated guidance, I have become a far more aware parent. For over five years, I have applied her practical and customized suggestions, and––wow––it has allowed my amazing daughter and me to grow together.”

Years Has Beens Together Grows Parent Five Daughter Dues Practicals Educated Guidance Sensitive Thoughtful Five Years Wow Drs Suggestions Divorced Divorced Parents

Author:Deborah Raffin

“As a DJ I am never 100 percent in charge of the sound. The sound levels are controlled by someone at the sound board of the venue.”

Sound Levels Percent Boards Controlled Djs Venues

Author:DJ Jazzy Jeff

“As a DJ, people expect a certain sound and a certain danceability for the music. As a producer, I really like to let go of any rules that may exist.”

People May Certain Sound Letting Go Producers Djs

Author:Armin van Buuren

“As a doc, though, I've seen what happens when people are under a lot of stress. Doesn't always bring out their best. When people are scared, they get angry. They'll do things they never thought they would. They'll bargain and compromise in order to survive; they'll chase after miracle cures and believe just about anything so long as it gives them hope. When hope fails, then watch out. Some people get brutal. They'll turn on each other; they'll become their own worst enemies.”

People Giving Believe Long Happens Order Turns Enemy Watches Failing Worst Miracle Stress Angry Scared Cures Compromise Brutal Turn-on Bargains Worst Enemy

Author:Ilsa J. Bick

Source: Ashes

“As a doctor I constantly have to ask myself what kind of message the patient is bringing me. What does he mean to me? If he means nothing, I have no point of attack. The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. 'Only the wounded physician heals.' But when the doctor wears his personality like a coat of armor, he has no effect.”

Healing Psychology Humility Empathy Wounded Healer

Author:C.G. Jung

Source: Memories, dreams, reflections

“As a doctor who has been bedridden with severe ME for a long period after GET caused a severe relapse from which I have not recovered, I am in a unique position to combine the patient and doctor perspective...”

Cfs Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Me Cfs World Health Organization Neurasthenia

Author:Mark Vink

A Quotes

All A Quotes