“Sometimes, when you work with directors who have done it a lot and are established in the business and know the game, there are all these rules that they have. First-time directors will allow you to come in with choices. They're not so jaded by actors that they're like, 'Ugh, just do your job, man.” KnowsMenFirstsSometimesDoneJobsChoicesActorsGamesDirectorsFirst TimeJadedUgh Author:Jake M. Johnson
“If the director wishes to print it, then you have a series of choices, maybe millions of choices within that minute-and-a-half, or 80 seconds, or 2 minutes or however long or short the take is, you have all those choices committed to celluloid. I find that absolutely thrilling.” IfsLongChoicesWishHalfMillionsMinutesDirectorsSeriesCommittedPrintSecondsThrillingCelluloid Author:Ben Kingsley
“You realize as a director that when you are cutting a film, you want to have alternatives. You need color and choices. You don't want four takes that are identical.” WantNeedsFilmChoicesRealizingFourCuttingColorDirectorsAlternativesIdentical Author:Dolph Lundgren
“When you trust the director you want to trust his or her choices. I don't want to say, 'No, I don't like this girl or that guy," when the director really loves them. No, you want to go with what the director likes.” WantGuyChoicesGirlDirectorsLikesThat GuyThis Girl Author:Denzel Washington
“I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.” ThinkingWantGivingTryingChoicesDirectorsProveAvailable Author:Vera Farmiga
“There are things that I would avoid, so I have the choice to say no, when I feel I'm repeating myself too much. But then there could be a reason to do that with a good director. So I think actors have to have a loose philosophy.” ThinkingFeelsReasonPhilosophyChoicesActorsToo MuchDirectorsGood Directors Author:Toby Jones
“Every time I see a film or TV show, I think about how that composer made those choices and how that director envisioned music and how that could work onstage or in a film and how you could support that even further by putting lyrics to it.” ThinkingMadeShowsFilmChoicesSupportTvsDirectorsComposerTv Shows Author:Robert Lopez
“I had a choice. I could become an economist & managing director. I choose to do something else. I would have become much, much richer than I am. I choose to not do that. It's that simple.” ChoicesSimpleDirectorsEconomist Author:Odd Nerdrum
“I think it's hard for women to be directors, particularly in the feature world because, biologically, your peak career-making years are also your peak baby-making years, and that's just the truth. And those are choices women have to make.” ThinkingWorldYearsHardChoicesCareersBabyDirectorsFeatures Author:Laura Ziskin
“You have total control of it, and when you're an actor, you're subject to production design and costumes and directors and studio choices and producer choices, but when you're writing it, you're creating your own little world in your head, peopled with your little characters. No one is in there monkeying with it, at least not at first - though they will. With this and the other projects I'm working on, it'll have to be given away, and it'll have to be someone else's property.” WorldWritingFirstsLittlesCharacterChoicesActorsGivenSubjectsDesignDirectorsProjectsCreatingPropertyProductionsStudiosProducersCostumesProduction Design Author:Rainn Wilson
“The only way I know as a director is to figure out what the film is about. And out of the theme and the sense of what the film is about, all those decisions start to make sense. But to find that truth within it, you have to limit your possibilities and limit your choices. That's where this visual language grows out of.” KnowsWayFilmChoicesLanguageGrowsDecisionFiguresPossibilityDirectorsLimitsMake SenseThemeVisuals Author:Darren Aronofsky
“My advice to other female directors would be to pay no heed to naysayers. Women can be united in the fact that there has always been someone in our lives who has told us "it can't be done" or "there is only so much you can do." We are constantly encouraged to think that being born a woman means we were born with limited choices and compromised dreams.” ThinkingMeanDoneFactsDreamWould BeChoicesCan DoBornUnitedPayOur LivesAdviceDirectorsFemaleHeedNaysayers Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy