“I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.” ActorsDadDirectorsMy DadDesignerCameraman Author:Joe Wright
“Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.” NeedsDoneActorsDirectorsDesignerPlaywrightWork DoneGregarious Author:Katori Hall
“I think I'm a whole lot to handle. I definitely am, on every aspect. I'm the video director. I'm the graphics designer. I'm the rapper. I'm the visionary. I'm the music producer. I'm the executive producer. I'm just going to end it off to be poetic: I'm the future of music.” ThinkingEndsWholeDirectorsAspectHandleVideoProducersDesignerExecutivesPoeticRapperVisionariesMusic Producer Author:Kanye West
“I find that in the process of making a film you're constantly discovering things that you never even imagined would work at the beginning. Actors come into the film and do things you never even imagined. Production designers come in, the director of photography lights it in a way that you never imagined. So, it's always evolving, always exciting.” WayLightFilmActorsProcessDirectorsPhotographyExcitingProductionsEvolveDesignerDiscoveringDiscovering Things Author:Peter Jackson
“To make good films, you have to have a good relationship and good collaboration as composer-director, composer-editor, composer-production designer-actor because you're working with the actors on screen.” FilmActorsDirectorsProductionsScreensDesignerEditorsCollaborationComposerGood RelationshipGood Films Author:Howard Shore
“As a designer, design director or any creative person, you have to hire great people, support them and make them feel comfortable so they can contribute and give you their best.” PeopleGivingFeelsPersonsSupportCreativeDesignDirectorsComfortableDesignerGreat PeopleCreative Person Author:Tom Ford
“I deliberately look for colorful people. They're very right for theatre. Theatre has to be theatrical. If you can get color into the accountant, you've got something. Write the whole thing first and then say he's an accountant. That's a very wacky accountant, but so what? Theatricality feeds and challenges the actor, the director, and the designers.” PeopleIfsWritingFirstsLooksWholeActorsChallengesColorDirectorsTheatreDesignerTheatricalColorfulAccountantsWacky Author:Lanford Wilson
“If you are able to see on a monitor what it's actually going to look like and have that kind of feedback informing your decisions, then you're bringing back a lot of the decision-making process of the designer, the director of photography and the director away from the post-production process and bringing it back into the actual capturing of the event on film.” IfsLooksKindAbleFilmProcessDecisionEventsDirectorsPhotographyProductionsPostsDesignerDecision MakingFeedbackInformingDecision Making ProcessPost Production Author:Rick Heinrichs
“In a lot of cases, you think that the art director and the production designer designed and built this amazing set, when in fact they only built part of it and were able to extend it using all of this fabulous technology.” ThinkingArtFactsAbleCasesTechnologyDirectorsBuiltProductionsDesignerFabulousArt Director Author:Rick Heinrichs
“I like characters. I like spirited characters whether they exist in fiction or real life. Whether they're the invention of artistic people or directors, musicians. I think music and art and fashion designers inspire me and I like characters.” PeopleThinkingArtRealCharacterFictionFashionInspireDirectorsMusicianReal LifeInventionArtisticDesignerFashion DesignerSpirited Author:Marc Jacobs
“I worked for 20 directors as a production designer, most male. I was on the set to witness firsthand a range of sometimes atrocious emotions - well-documented firings, yellings, fights between directors and actors, hookers, abusive things, budget overages, lack of preparation. A man gets a standing ovation for crying because he's so sensitive, but a woman is shamed.” MenWellsSometimesFightingActorsEmotionCryDirectorsStandingMalesProductionsWitnessPreparationRangeBudgetsSensitiveDesignerYellingAbusiveFiringOvation Author:Catherine Hardwicke
“A lot of people love Tarantino’s films because they’re spectacular, they’re beautiful, they’re wonderful. He hires the best group of artists - not only actors, but everyone around: best photographers, best set designers, best production designers, costume designers. A lot of people love his films because they’re bloody, they’re gory, they’re savage. But very few people see that he’s a very political director.” PeopleBeautifulFilmPoliticalArtistActorsWonderfulGroupsDirectorsPhotographerProductionsDesignerBloodySavagesCostumesSpectacularTarantino Author:Demian Bichir
“The only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors, directors, musicians, set designers, and photographers. In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.” PeopleWayLittlesActorsDirectorsMusicianHollywoodPhotographerDesignerProgressiveOpen MindOpen MindedMake Out Author:Adam McKay