“Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the kind practiced by great artists, directors, writers, musicians, actors, who know how to touch a chord in humans everywhere.” KnowsHumansKindArtistActorsCreativityKnow HowHuman NatureDirectorsMusicianTendenciesTrendsPredictionsGreat ArtChordsGreat ArtistPrevailingAmenable Author:Maurice Saatchi
“One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what one has experienced and understood about the human condition as it relates to the role one has been hired to portray.” PeopleHumansHas BeensResponsibilityRolesConditionsDirectorsUnderstoodOneselfRelateHuman Condition Author:Tom Skerritt
“I like to think of myself as a fairly educated human being, but I'm a very uneducated actor when it comes to movies, directors, producers, actors for that matter.” ThinkingHumansMatterActorsHuman BeingsDirectorsProducersEducatedUneducatedMovie DirectorEducated And Uneducated Author:Shailene Woodley
“I think, as written, 'Assassins' simply acknowledges the very human need to be acknowledged. As director, I've got to put aside any particular biases or prejudices that, as a moral human being, this is not an appropriate or acceptable way to get what you want.” ThinkingWayWantNeedsHumansHuman BeingsMoralWrittenParticularDirectorsPrejudiceWhat You WantAcknowledgeAppropriateAcceptableAssassinsHuman Needs Author:Joe Mantello
“We’re living in an acquisitive capitalist society that is fundamentally anti-family and fundamentally uncomfortable with just enjoying being human. We’d rather shop than live, acquire than love and stare into a screen than hold each other.” LoveLifeHumansEnjoyFamilySocietyDirectorsCapitalismScreensLive LifeStaringUncomfortableAcquireShopsShoppingCapitalistBeing HumanLiving My LifeEnjoy LifeScreenwritersHolding Hands Author:Frank Schaeffer
“Technological civilization... rests fundamentally on power-driven machinery which transcends the physical limits of its human directors, multiplying indefinitely the capacity for the production of goods. Science in all its branches - physics, chemistry, biology, and psychology - is the servant and upholder of this system” HumansPsychologyCivilizationDirectorsLimitsCapacityProductionsDrivenPhysicsServantBranchesBiologyGoodsChemistryTechnologicalMachineryMultiplying Author:Charles A. Beard
“This man (Bergman) is one of the few film directors-perhaps the only one in the world-to have said as much about human nature as Dostoevsky or Camus.” MenWorldHumansSaidFilmHuman NatureDirectorsFilm DirectorsBergman Author:Krzysztof Kieslowski
“To allow the market mechanism to be the sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment....would result in the demolition of society.” HumansNaturalHuman BeingsResultsEnvironmentFateSocietyDirectorsMechanismSoleNatural EnvironmentDemolition Author:Karl Polanyi
“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.” PeopleTryingHumansMeanRealizingEmotionDirectorsProjectsHuman Experience Author:Catherine Hardwicke
“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
“People often ask me if I feel discriminated against as a black female director. I don't. I'm actually offered a ton of stuff. But I only want to direct what I write. And I prefer to focus on black female characters. What's most important to me is to put characters up onscreen who are not perfect, but who are human and flawed.” PeopleIfsWantFeelsWritingHumansImportantCharacterAsksStuffBlackPerfectFocusDirectorsFemaleDirectAsk MeFlawedNot PerfectFemale Characters Author:Gina Prince-Bythewood
“...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
“You watch him playing Jack Sparrow, and he's loving it, and he's loving being in that world. He's still excited by it. Sometimes, he'll even say, 'Was that OK?' And I'm thinking, 'You're Johnny Depp man, you know that's OK!' But he doesn't. He's still going to [director] Gore [Verbinski] and asking for help. It's a privilege to see the human side of Johnny. It's really exciting.” ThinkingKnowsMenWorldHumansStillsSometimesHelpingSidesWatchesDirectorsExcitingAskingPrivilegeExcitedGoreSparrowsAsking For Help Author:Keira Knightley
“Certainly as actors, and maybe as directors, you've got to hang on to something childlike. You've got to know what play is. I haven't worked with Mike Leigh, but I know him very well and there's something open in his eyes about what's in front of him. And the same is true of Alfonso in a Mexican, mad way. There's an enthusiastic response to something. Neil Jordan, the same, when he gets excited . You just want to know there's a human being in there.” KnowsWayWantHumansWellsPlayEyeActorsHuman BeingsFrontsHavensLike YouDirectorsMadResponseExcitedHis EyesMexicanMikeEnthusiasticJordanChildlike Author:Alan Rickman
“I knew [Jesse Owens'] name, but I really didn't remember what it is he had done, so I felt like I had to get refreshed. So I read the script and I realized like, wow, this is an incredible human being. I told my manager, however I had to do it, let me see the director; I got to play him.” HumansDonePlayRememberNamesFeltHuman BeingsDirectorsLet MeIncrediblesScriptsI RealizedManagersWow Author:Stephan James
“John Lewis is such a remarkable human being. Literally, such a beautiful human being. I remember the first time I met him. We were in the middle of a scene and [Selma director] Ava DuVernay calls, "Cut," and then he literally just came in. He just came walking in.I just froze. I can't explain the feeling. Seeing somebody who was literally a living hero. He was a hero.” FirstsHumansI CanFeelingsBeautifulRememberHuman BeingsCuttingSeeingMiddleHeroWalkingMetsSceneDirectorsFirst TimeRemarkable Author:Stephan James