“My dad is a director/producer and my mom is a dancer; she performed with Alvin Ailey, but I didn't even think about becoming an actress.” ThinkingMomBecomingDadDirectorsMy DadMy MomActressesProducersDancer Author:Sanaa Lathan
“For me, there was never an end game for becoming a director.” EndsGamesBecomingDirectors Author:Adam Shankman
“I'm certainly not going to tell other people what they should do with their own personal lives. I think it's certainly easier for a director to be out. The public is not going to see a movie because the director is gay or straight. It's maybe a little harder for an actor or actress because of, you know, the love roles and stuff. But gay people have been impersonating heteros in the movies for years. So, hopefully, that is becoming less of an issue. I think it would have been really great if a gay person had played a gay person. That's brave!” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsShouldYearsLittlesPersonsHas BeensActorsStuffRolesIssuesBecomingEasierGayDirectorsHarderBraveActressesHopefullyReally GreatPersonal LifeGay PeopleBecause Of You Author:John Waters
“I really trust the authenticity of real people and my job is to get them to be themselves in front of the camera. Often what happens is, you'll get a newcomer in front of the camera and they'll freeze up or they imitate actors or other performances that they've admired and so they stop becoming themselves. And so my job as the director is just to always return them to what I first saw in them, which was simply an uncensored human being.” PeopleFirstsHumansRealHappensJobsActorsHuman BeingsSawsFrontsReturnBecomingDirectorsPerformancesCamerasAuthenticityFreezeNewcomers Author:Steven Spielberg
“Becoming artistic directors is an enormous responsibility and not one that we take lightly.” ResponsibilityBecomingDirectorsEnormousArtistic Author:Cate Blanchett
“I always felt more like a girl than a boy, I don't know. Music was very important to me, movies were not important. I was not dreaming of becoming a film director.” KnowsImportantDreamFilmGirlFeltBoysBecomingDirectorsFilm Directors Author:Lukas Moodysson
“What the computer can do in art and design has turned aesthetics on its head... with the computer, things are not so much created as they are produced, with the producer-director becoming the star and the controlling force of much that was in other hands at other times.” ArtHandsForceStarsCan DoDesignBecomingDirectorsComputerProducersAesthetics Author:Nicholas von Hoffman
“My passion is becoming involved in good work, whether that means as an actor or writer or director or producer or all - that is not as important to me.” MeanImportantPassionActorsBecomingInvolvedDirectorsProducersGood WorkMy PassionBecoming Involved Author:Bryan Cranston
“My big break was becoming the spokesperson for Texas Instruments. Casting directors really started giving me a chance to read for projects.” GivingBigsChanceBreakBecomingDirectorsProjectsInstrumentsTexasCastingCasting Directors Author:Bella Thorne
“In the neighborhood around Waseda, there were all these movie theaters, so every morning I left the house and watched movies instead of going to class. The experience of encountering films then is one of my greatest memories. Before that I'd never paid any attention to directors, but there I was taking a crash course in Ozu, Kurosawa, Naruse, Truffaut, Renoir, Fellini. Because I've always been naturally a more introspective person, I was more interested in becoming a screenwriter than a director.” PersonsFilmCoursesHouseLeftMemoriesAttentionClassMorningBecomingDirectorsPaidTheaterNeighborhoodEvery MorningCrashIntrospectiveScreenwritersMovie TheaterKurosawaRenoir Author:Hirokazu Koreeda
“Obviously there was Keith Haring and Robert Mapplethorpe, but Howard was on the brink of becoming a famous director - it didn't happen because he died.” HappensBecomingDirectorsDiedKeith Author:Aaron Brookner
“Rewriting the negative beliefs you have learned is the essence of becoming the director of your life.” BeliefSelf EsteemBecomingDirectorsNegativeEssenceEsteemRewritingNegative Beliefs Author:Deborah Day