“My junior year, I was in a play at school and five days before opening night, I still didn't know my lines. Opening night was a disaster. I was so embarrassed. The director made me work backstage for the rest of the performance.” KnowsYearsMadeStillsPlaySchoolNightLinesFiveDirectorsPerformancesDisasterOpeningEmbarrassedJuniorsJunior YearOpening Night Author:Katie Leclerc
“Every actress has a line she'll draw, where she'll say, 'This I will do and this I won't.' For me, everything has to be important to the story and the director has to be able to tell me why.” ImportantStoriesAbleLinesDirectorsDrawsActresses Author:Sheryl Lee
“My memorization skills aren't that great so I need help in that area. As far as everything else, I listen to the director. I'm someone who doesn't argue. I hit my marks and say the lines.” NeedsHelpingLinesDirectorsSkillsAreasMarkArguingNeed HelpMemorization Author:Robert Morse
“The hardest thing for everyone, for the writer, for the director and certainly for the actors, is not to panic when they're doing a certain line for the tenth time because everything ceases to be funny after it's been repeated.” CertainActorsLinesDirectorsCeaseHardestPanicHardest Thing Author:Ivan Reitman
“I've never like had a system or a program, I always think that I don't know how to act. I'll adapt to any director because I don't really have a set way that I do things. If a director hires me and says, "I want you to get started right now and do this research, this research, this research and I want you to have every line memorized before you ever show up for the first day," then that's what I'll do.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayWantFirstsShowsLinesKnow HowRight NowDirectorsResearchProgramI Want You Author:Jennifer Lawrence
“I memorize my lines and I show up. I think it's just instinctual, and sometimes it's wrong and the director says, "No, do it this way." And then I can change, because I didn't spend all night practicing it this one way. All I do to get ready for the day is the night before, I read my lines once or twice, memorize them, and then I show up.” ThinkingWayI CanSometimesShowsNightLinesReadyDirectorsOne WayAll Night Author:Jennifer Lawrence
“I'm not only a writer, but have directed and produced, know the difficulties of the line producer, can deal with the studio, can talk with the director and get his or her vision and help exact that. I think it just gives you more tools.” ThinkingKnowsGivingHelpingLinesDealsVisionDirectorsToolsDifficultyStudiosProducers Author:John Lee Hancock
“The Nazis, for him, are merely available movie tropes--articulate monsters with a talent for sadism. By making the Americans cruel, too, he escapes the customary division of good and evil along national lines, but he escapes any sense of moral accountability as well. In a Tarantino war, everyone commits atrocities. Like all the director's work after 'Jackie Brown,' the movie is pure sensation. It's disconnected from feeling, and an eerie blankness--it's too shallow to be called nihilism--undermines even the best scenes.” WellsWarFeelingsEvilLinesMoralTalentScenePureDirectorsAvailableMonstersCommitBrownGood And EvilAccountabilityDivisionSensationsNaziShallowNihilismAtrocitiesDisconnectedJackieSadismTarantinoEerieTropesBlanknessJackie Brown Book:Do the Movies Have a Future? Source: Do the Movies Have a Future?
“David Fincher is probably the best comprehensive director in terms of being a manger of a process that must drive forward. He has such confident command of cinema language and visual language and script and performance. He knows more about f-stops than any cameraman, he knows more about lighting than any gaffer, he is a wonderful writer, and he can give you a good line reading. Under pressure, he is the kind of guy who you will just dive in with and trust and follow because his vision is so intense.” KnowsGivingKindGuyReadingLanguageProcessTermLinesVisionWonderfulDirectorsPerformancesPressureScriptsIntenseCommandCinemaVisualsComprehensiveLightingUnder PressureCameraman Author:Edward Norton
“Learn how to draw. It's the basis of what we [animation directors] do. Keep a sketchbook. Try making a very simple little film. Try and tell a story clearly and entertainingly. Study the way people move and animate move. Observe all you can, and try and capture that simply in a few lines on paper.” PeopleWayTryingLittlesStoriesFilmMovingLinesSimpleStudyDirectorsPaperDrawsBasesCaptureAnimationSketchbooks Author:John Musker
“I think that for a lot of actors - especially American actors - to get line readings and to be told and have your director literally act out the part for you is sort of discouraging in a way. It's a very Eastern European thing to do - a lot of directors that I worked with in Russia did that as well. And, I never took that as an insult, as many actors tend to do. To me, I think it's just offering a certain energy - offering their flavor - and, instead of trying to sort of decode and communicate it to you, they just show you their flavor of what it should be.” ThinkingWayShouldTryingWellsShowsCertainReadingActorsEnergyLinesDirectorsCommunicateRussiaThings To DoInsultOfferingFlavorEasternDiscouraging Author:Jon Bernthal
“If you're sounding right, you're probably walking right, and vice versa. If you get the footwork right - if you get even one line right in a rehearsal, the director will say, do you know when you said that, it was exactly the character. You were - really landed on it.” IfsKnowsSaidCharacterLinesWalkingDirectorsVicesDo You KnowRehearsalVice VersaOne LineFootwork Author:Ian Mckellen
“As a director, you have a thousand things going on in your head, and of course, that's going to be difficult. That's going to mean that some things get overlooked. And so, for us as performers, being the selfish pricks that we are, we're sitting there being concerned about ourselves all the time and our character's through-line.” MeanCharacterCoursesDifficultLinesThousandDirectorsSittingConcernedSelfishPerformersOverlooked Author:Jamie Campbell Bower
“I was never nervous directing. Not once. I'm more nervous acting. I'm far more nervous on set, before I say my lines, than I ever have been, as a director.” Has BeensLinesActingDirectorsNervous Author:Rose McGowan
“I still write. I'd love to write more trashy chick-lit. At the moment, I just re-write my own lines, which probably annoys most directors - though, thankfully not Adam Brooks!” WritingStillsMomentsLinesMy OwnDirectorsAnnoyingAdamLitChicksBrooks Author:Isla Fisher
“I would not like to direct, I would be one of those terrible directors who can't help line reading the actors their lines, because I would just want to be doing their parts.” WantHelpingWould BeReadingActorsLinesTerribleDirectorsDirect Author:Ruby Bentall
“In theater, you're in charge of your performance, and at the end of the day you're the one who gets credit because you're in front of the audience doing it, and in film and TV it's the director who gets to decide when to cut to you on a line, which take he uses.” EndsUseFilmLinesAudienceCuttingFrontsTvsDirectorsPerformancesTheaterCreditThe End Of The DayAnd At The End Of The Day Author:Jonathan Groff
“I think one of the things you have to be aware of as an actor is that if you come on the set and see the director standing there mouthing all the words while a scene is going on, that's usually a very bad sign because it means the director has already shot the scene in his head. He knows exactly the rhythm and the nuances that he wants delivered in the line and you're not going to dissuade him.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantMeanActorsLinesSceneDirectorsShotsStandingRhythmNuanceStanding There Author:Dustin Hoffman
“When I was creative director [at Estée Lauder], I was always being asked about my beauty must-haves. From there I had this fun idea to create a line of what was in my makeup bag. But I also love accessories, and people associate me with home, family, and beauty. As a girl, my favorite toy was my dollhouse; if I could still play with it now, I would! I used to love a well-arranged room: the furniture, the fabric, the lighting.” PeopleIfsWellsStillsIdeasPlayHomeUsedGirlFunLinesRoomsCreativeDirectorsMy FavoriteIf I CouldBagsMakeupToysFabricAssociatesFurnitureLightingAccessoriesUsed To LoveDollhouses Author:Aerin Lauder
“When your show keeps coming back, year after year, you have a responsibility because your fans know your show sometimes better than you do. You can't play games with them. You have to be really focused and concentrated, and play at your best in every department. The writing staff has to be fantastic. Our director line-up has to be great. Everything has to be better and better. Your fans keep track of the details.” KnowsWritingYearsSometimesPlayShowsGamesLinesResponsibilityFansDirectorsTrackDetailsFocusedFantasticDepartmentStaffComing BackBetter Than You Author:Demian Bichir
“Nine times out of ten, I'm trying to meet someone else's expectations, whether it's the director or the writer or the animator, when I go back in to re-record a line. I'm the icing on the cake, but the cake is the thing. I'm really just a hood ornament on a very solid vehicle.” TryingLinesRecordsDirectorsTenExpectationsNineCakeVehicleHoodOrnamentsAnimatorIcingIcing On The Cake Author:Adrian Pasdar
“The director's job is to know what emotional statement he wants a character to convey in his scene or his line, and to exercise taste and judgment in helping the actor give his best possible performance.” KnowsWantGivingCharacterHelpingJobsActorsLinesEmotionalExerciseTasteSceneDirectorsJudgmentPerformancesStatementsTaste And Judgment Author:Stanley Kubrick
“Most of the films I myself like don't do very well. Every director, he has a choice, whether to go for subtlety and try to articulate every minute detail, or to go for the broad strokes and hope that the people will fill in between the lines. I tend to go for the broader strokes.” PeopleTryingWellsFilmChoicesLinesMinutesDirectorsDetailsBroadsStrokesSubtletyBetween The Lines Author:Sylvester Stallone
“The work I'm doing on the screen differs from that of anyone else. My comedy is of a peculiar nature...no writers have been developed along the lines of my type of comedy and this is why I sometimes have differences with writers, supervisors and directors alike.” Has BeensSometimesDifferencesLinesComedyTypeDirectorsScreensPeculiarSupervisors Author:W. C. Fields