“You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you do and knows how to push you and bring out the best in you.” KnowsKnow HowPrayingInvolvedDirectorsSensibilityGet InvolvedHope And Pray Author:Matthew Modine
“Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases.” EnergyIssuesEnvironmentSourceInvolvedDirectorsInternationalMy TimeSustainabilityDevotedLaboratoryFractionsGreenhousesGreenhouse GasesEnergy SourcesNew Energy Author:Burton Richter
“Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process.” ActorsProcessInvolvedDirectorsAccustomedGet InvolvedRequest Author:Catherine McCormack
“The joy for me of television is the sort of family feeling of being involved with an ensemble - the cast and the crew and the director of photography and the guys in the camera truck - and you're all coming together. There's a great feeling when that is a successful unit, a successful family.” FeelingsTogetherJoyGuySuccessfulTelevisionInvolvedDirectorsPhotographyCamerasCastsUnitsCrewTruckEnsembleComing TogetherGreat Feelings Author:Jeffrey Pierce
“Marlee has said a million times, "Wouldn't it be funny if there was a camera trained on the two of us?" because we get involved in some very interesting situations. We'll be on a plane and she gets handed a Braille menu because they think she is blind, or producers that turn to the director of a show she's on and say, "Marlee Matlin is great, but is she going to be deaf for the whole show?" She used to freak people out with the speaker phone in her car by having me sign what they were saying on the speaker phone and then she would speak herself.” PeopleIfsThinkingSaidTwoWholeShowsUsedTurnsSpeakInterestingSituationMillionsCarInvolvedDirectorsCamerasBlindPhonesProducersPlanesFreakSpeakersDeafVery InterestingGet InvolvedMenusTwo Of UsBrailleInteresting Situations Author:Jack Jason
“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 knew that's where I was going. I knew we were going to Italy. You couldn't make this movie in America at this price. I knew it was going to be big. I knew there was going to be a ship involved and that there was going to be a set as big as the ship. I thought, well, here we go. But I knew that was where he was headed. He had been going this way for some time. All directors, once they have some success, they want to spend a whole heck of a lot of money. (Something else can't hear.)” WayWantWellsWholeBigsAmericaInvolvedDirectorsShipsLots Of Money Author:Bill Murray
“I have been directing and involved in producing and the creating of films for quite a while as well as acting. I always think in terms of what the director needs, and not just for this scene but for the film.” ThinkingNeedsWellsHas BeensFilmTermActingInvolvedSceneDirectorsCreating Author:George Clooney
“Hollywood people don't want to be embarrassed by being involved with someone who isn't happening and cool at the time. But I never made the movies for the critics; I've done the best I could with the material and the directors and the actors I had. But the thing that's really exciting is that once I do that one project that's different, that stands out, everyone's gonna be watching.” PeopleWantMadeDifferentDoneActorsMaterialsInvolvedDirectorsProjectsHappeningsHollywoodExcitingCriticsEmbarrassedStanding Out Author:Pauly Shore
“As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it, I was involved in other electronic projects. Harvard invited me to become director of the libraries in 2007.” BookPresidentInvolvedDirectorsProjectsHistoricalLibraryAssociationInvitedHarvardProgrammesDissertation Author:Robert Darnton
“I'm just happy when directors make a movie that is really sentimental but without being maudlin or saccharine or too much like Chewels gum. I don't want to be involved in a movie that's too much like a piece of Chewels.” WantToo MuchPiecesInvolvedDirectorsSentimentalGum Author:Paul Schneider
“I like to be cast well and then I like to be left alone. And good directors, that's generally what they do when they hire you because you have something that's useful to the part, and then they leave you alone. The times that I've run into trouble is when, very rare actually, but you get hired and then there's some sort of makeover involved.” WellsRunningLeftTroubleInvolvedDirectorsCastsLeft AloneGood DirectorsMakeovers Author:Christopher Walken
“I love being involved in all of the creative stuff; I love talking ideas with directors. Anyone with an imagination can create something fun.” IdeasFunStuffImaginationLove IsTalkingCreativeInvolvedDirectors Author:Brendon Urie
“We're producing a movie now, 'The Onion' Movie, and it's very difficult for me to be on the set. If I'm not right in the trenches, it's very difficult for me to watch another director, because I'm not involved and it's not exciting.” IfsDifficultWatchesInvolvedDirectorsExcitingOnionsTrenches Author:David Zucker
“It depends on the scripts and the character and just everybody involved, the other actors and directors. It's just a gut feeling when you find something, you're like, 'Yes, I want to sink my teeth into that.'” WantCharacterFeelingsActorsDependsInvolvedDirectorsScriptsTeethGutsGut Feelings Author:Mandy Moore
“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
“The biggest thing I've noticed with some of my favorite directors is their gift of sticking a bunch of strangers in a room together and making them comfortable and making them into a cohesive group. There's magic involved, because you don't know why anybody would pick this group of people.” PeopleKnowsTogetherRoomsMagicGroupsInvolvedDirectorsComfortablePicksMy FavoriteStrangerBunch Author:Alison Pill
“I worked with great, brilliant directors. I've been so lucky. It's terrible to compare anyone, because you can't. But I can just tell you that this experience was just a truly magnificent experience for everyone involved.” I CanInvolvedTerribleLuckyDirectorsBrilliantCompareMagnificentSo Lucky Author:Jennifer Jason Leigh
“I wanted to be a jazz pianist, but I wasn't good enough. I got into city college because I didn't have the grades to get into university. I took acting because it was a way to get three credits. I just needed three credits and my friend told me to take acting because it was like gym - nobody fails you. I took it and that's literally how I got involved in acting.” WayLifeEnoughWantedThreeActingCitiesDestinyFailingCollegeNeededInvolvedDirectorsMy FriendsJazzUniversityCreditCinemaGradesGood EnoughGymInvolvementInvolvingPianist Author:Dustin Hoffman
“I was lying in bed on a Saturday morning, reading the paper, when my phone went. The caller was Rangers director, Jack Gillespie, and he offered me the manager's job at Ibrox. I was flattered but declined with thanks. John Greig was a good friend of mine and I had no intention of being involved in ousting him.” JobsLyingReadingMorningMinesInvolvedBedDirectorsPaperIntentionPhonesThanksManagersGood FriendSaturdayRangersFlatteredSaturday Morning Author:Alex Ferguson
“Well, I think that's been my career. I always choose stuff that's the same, yet different. These projects just happened. I didn't plan it out that way. I just happened to be free, and the director, Dan Pritzker, decided to do his film again. I say again because we did it seven years ago. A lot of the actors were not available, so he just couldn't wait anymore and he recast everything. Me and two other characters are the only people involved with the new one, who were involved with the previous one.” PeopleThinkingWayYearsWellsTwoDifferentCharacterFilmActorsStuffWaitingCareersPlansHappenedInvolvedDirectorsProjectsYears AgoDecidedSevenAvailableSeven Years Author:Michael Rooker
“It was Die Hard in my father's workshop. And so when that opportunity came up, the possibility of doing it, it's more the teenager in me who says that, 'I have to, of course I'm going to.' So that's the fun of reinventing, or just getting involved in things that really, actually loved as a kid growing up wanting to grow up to be a director.” HardKidsDiesCoursesFatherOpportunityFunGrowsGrowing UpGrowingPossibilityInvolvedDirectorsTeenagerWorkshopsKids Growing UpReinventing Author:Len Wiseman
“A lot of the projects that I do, I like to be involved with earlier. I just feel that, certainly from an acting point of view, it's easier to do my job, if I'm included in what the intentions are, for why people are doing what they're doing, especially with a director.” PeopleIfsFeelsJobsViewsActingInvolvedEasierDirectorsProjectsIntentionPoint Of View Author:Clive Owen
“Actors can become very involved in a role, but for a director or producer, that's your life for many years.” YearsActorsRolesInvolvedDirectorsProducers Author:Joseph McGinty Nichol
“I've never seen a movie director who was happier to be directing a movie than Dave [Mamet]. His sets, everyone who's ever been involved with one of them will tell you of the funnest, funniest sets you can be on.” InvolvedDirectorsDaveMovie Director Author:Clark Gregg
“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
“Exodus is a very large organization. My board of directors is supportive of me as the president of Exodus and are very much involved in my decision-making and those types of things. They're a wonderful and balanced group of people and I'm grateful for their support. Within the membership we have 270 or so members within the network of Exodus whether that's a local member ministry, a counselor or one of our members of our church association.” PeoplePresidentChurchDecisionSupportWonderfulGroupsTypeInvolvedDirectorsMembersOrganizationGratefulLocalsBoardsDecision MakingAssociationBalancedMinistrySupportiveMembershipCounselorBoard Of DirectorsExodus Author:Alan Chambers
“Jack [Nicholson] really knows about the camera. He's one of the directors who likes to play with the camera. He'll change things around, play with lighting, things like that. He'll even spend hours on the set-up for an insert shot. He's an interested person who gets involved in all the aspects of the films he is making.” KnowsPersonsPlayFilmHoursInvolvedDirectorsShotsAspectCamerasLikesGet InvolvedLightingInsertNicholson Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“I got involved through the director of the show [Top Chef], he's a director of films in Mexico; I worked with him before. I watched the show in English -many times for many years - and I always loved it. As soon as I heard about having an opportunity to showcase Mexico in a different way, to show a different side of Mexico, that is not violent, that has beautiful colors and delicious food... I didn't think about it twice.” ThinkingWayYearsDifferentShowsBeautifulFilmOpportunitySidesHeardColorInvolvedDirectorsViolentDifferent WaysMexicoChefDeliciousDifferent SidesShowcaseDelicious FoodBeautiful Colors Author:Ana Claudia Talancon
“My favorite thing in moviemaking is to shoot in chronological order if at all possible, because it just helps for continuity and all the logistical purposes. It also helps with performance and the journey of each character, but I also think it's good for the director and everyone [else] involved.” IfsThinkingCharacterHelpingPurposeOrderJourneyInvolvedDirectorsPerformancesMy FavoriteContinuityFavorites Things Author:Zoe Bell
“There was a very important superintendent of Yellowstone, a man who was involved in the founding of the National Park Service itself, Horace Albright. And he became superintendent, which is the boss of Yellowstone Park, in 1919 - from 1919 to 1929. Later, he was director of the park service itself. Albright embraced the idea that in order for the national parks - and Yellowstone in particular - to have support from the American people and from politicians, there needed to be wildlife as spectacle.” PeopleMenImportantIdeasOrderSupportParticularNeededInvolvedPoliticianDirectorsParksBossFoundingWildlifeNational ParksYellowstoneSuperintendents Author:David Quammen