“I was definitely incredibly close to my dad, in a way that was all-encompassing. I am close to my mum, too, but there were areas that she and I did not share. So his loss to me was huge, personally and professionally. He believed in me, not just as a father, but as a director, and that always meant a lot.” WayFatherLossShareHugeDadDirectorsAreasMy DadMumHis Loss Author:Natasha Richardson
“I'd love to be a huge television director. I definitely want to do that. I could imagine me going more and more into that, as I age.” WantAgeImagineTelevisionHugeDirectors Author:Shiri Appleby
“I mean the most important thing you can have as an actor, writer, director, or whatever you are, poet or whatever it is, is life experience. Life experience doesn't mean you have to live 50 years to have it. I mean you know a lot of people have huge life experience by the time they're in college.” PeopleKnowsYearsMeanImportantActorsCollegePoetHugeDirectorsImportant ThingsLife Experience Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“I see how complicated it is to make a film and how many people are involved and I love the fact that I get to sit in a room on my own and the set costs nothing and the actors cost nothing and I'm the director and it's so simple. You just need a pen and paper to make a book. You don't need a huge budget or a gaffer or a best boy.” PeopleNeedsBookFactsFilmActorsMy OwnSimpleRoomsBoysHugeInvolvedCostDirectorsPaperComplicatedBudgetsPens Author:Markus Zusak
“I was seen dancing at school by a director, who asked me to be in a TV play. And it had a huge impact. So I think thats what really started me off.” ThinkingPlaySchoolTvsHugeDirectorsImpactDancing Author:Francesca Annis
“You have to have the essential pleasure of making a movie. It's such a huge factor and adventure for a director because you really are the leader and the captain.” PleasureLeaderAdventureHugeDirectorsEssentialsFactorsCaptains Author:Audrey Tautou
“I thought it was a huge conflict of interest to be the director and the subject - it's very sketchy territory to be in. I've seen what's happened to other directors who have done that.” DoneInterestHappenedSubjectsHugeDirectorsConflictTerritoryConflict Of InterestSketchy Author:Aaron Rose
“If I would want to have a huge audience, I would make American movies, not French movies, because there is a limit of course with French language. If I prefer to shoot in my own language, it is to play with my language, to play in my Paris, and I have complete freedom in France. It's so amazing. If American directors could imagine how free I am, they would have asked for political asylum immediately.” IfsWantPlayPoliticalCoursesLanguageMy OwnAudienceImagineHugeDirectorsLimitsFranceParisAsylumsAmerican MovieComplete FreedomFrench LanguageFrench Movies Author:Jean-Pierre Jeunet
“I'm a huge fan of the director, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and his work, and I knew he was going to be an amazing actor's director, based on the performances that I saw in his movies.” ActorsSawsFansHugeDirectorsPerformances Author:Javier Bardem
“I believe you can never stop growing and learning and I've been very fortunate to have been working since I was 10 or 11-years-old. I have learned so much throughout the years working with amazing directors and great actors as well. This was really a huge step for me because it's very different from anything that I've done before but I think the biggest difference here is that the cast we were surrounded by in this movie was unbelievable.” ThinkingYearsBelieveWellsHas BeensDifferentDoneActorsI BelieveDifferencesStepsGrowingHugeDirectorsCastsFortunateI Have LearnedUnbelievableGreat ActorsBelieve You CanLearning And Growing Author:Taylor Lautner
“If the audience gets everything, if they see the photography and notice that it is good, then the story goes out the window, but if you become involved with the lives of the actors and forget that you are seeing mechanical devices on a huge screen - forget the make-believe - this is the job of the director to involve the audience with the actors.” IfsBelieveStoriesJobsActorsForgetAudienceSeeingHugeInvolvedDirectorsPhotographyWindowScreensDevicesMake Believe Author:Frank Capra
“I've worked with a lot great directors who have huge resumes, but I'm really trying to be active in my career in supporting the new generation of cinema. I like taking some time to try to support and be a part of that.” TryingCareersSupportGenerationsHugeDirectorsActiveCinemaNew GenerationResumes Author:Michael Pitt
“...there are two (inter alia) two ways of ruining a society - namely, letting the market "be the sole director of the fate of human beings," and allowing technology to permeate every aspect of our lives. In the United States, both of these developments have converged, creating a huge chasm between rich and poor and pushing us over the edge into a kind of antisociety... While these developments have been widely hailed as the dawn of a golden age, the likelihood is that they actually amount to a death knell, the beginning of the end of the American empire.” WayHumansKindHas BeensTwoEndsStatesAgeHuman BeingsPoorUnitedTechnologyUnited StatesRichOur LivesFateHugeDevelopmentAmountDirectorsCreatingAspectEdgesGoldenDawnEmpiresPushingAllowingSoleTwo WaysRich And PoorLikelihoodGolden AgeChasmsOver The EdgeAmerican Empire Author:Morris Berman
“I'm a huge fan of director's cuts or reassemblies if they're good, but I remember being really excited about the restored version of Apocalypse Now, and then I preferred the original film. Kingdom of Heaven as a director's cut is the real picture, but in fact someone recently told me that there was another cut, the original first cut, which he said was just extraordinary. I've never seen it - and of course now I want to, if it exists, and so would everybody else.” IfsWantFirstsSaidRealFactsRememberFilmCoursesHeavenCuttingFansHugeDirectorsOriginalsExtraordinaryExcitedKingdomsVersionsBeing RealNow And ThenApocalypseKingdom Of Heaven Author:William Monahan
“Out of nowhere she tells me that Oliver Stone - you know, the director - she's like, 'He has this huge Asian fetish, and I find it totally offensive.' And I'm like, 'Why, Kwan? That sounds awesome.' She's like, 'I'm offended because I'm Asian.' And I was just like, 'Well, I'm sorry, but I didn't even notice that. I thought you were just really tired.” KnowsWellsSoundHugeDirectorsStonesTiredSorryOffensiveI'm SorryOffendedAsianFetish Author:Amy Schumer
“I'm a huge Hayao Miyazaki fan. He might be my favorite director of all time - the beauty that he sees in the world and the attention to detail. I try and focus on that while making music: trying to use as many real instruments as possible, have it feel as tactile and tangible as possible.” WorldFeelsTryingRealUseMightAttentionFocusFansHugeDirectorsInstrumentsMy FavoriteDetailsAll TimeTangibleAttention To DetailTactile Author:St. Lucia
“While the storytelling in games is getting so much better, you look at something like Grand Theft Auto V, which I thought was really beautifully written, it doesn't really need a movie because it is a movie. So I think you need a unique game - you either need an incredibly talented writer and director to come in and put together an amazing vision, or you need a game like Metal Gear, which is very cinematic, has a huge amount of history behind it, but whose cinematic experience is very different from what you'd get in a theater.” ThinkingNeedsLooksDifferentTogetherGamesBehindsVisionWrittenHugeAmountDirectorsUniqueTheaterStorytellingMetalsTheftGearsCinematicReally BeautifulGrand Theft AutoMetal Gear Author:David Hayter
“I had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn't intend, or they were stylizing something that was compromising the play, so I started to think like, "well if I'm going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct".” IfsThinkingShouldWellsPlayFightingHugeDirectorsConceptsDirectCompromisePlaywrightBad Experiences Author:Adam Rapp
“A lot of new American directors have had mentors who have given them advice. And some of them have had the way paved for them by huge Hollywood directors who saw a younger version of themselves.” WayGivenSawsAdviceHugeDirectorsHollywoodVersionsMentor Author:Julie Delpy
“I've always been a huge fan of Patricia's [Rozema ], as a director and as a writer, and she's a friend. For me, Patricia is one of those people who can cross genre in a way that I think has been pretty incredible, if you look at her career and the versatility of her work.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayLooksHas BeensCareersFansHugeDirectorsCrossesIncrediblesGenreVersatility Author:Ellen Page