“When we choose only love as the director of our mind we can experience the power and miracle of love.” LoveMindDirectorsMiracleOnly Love Book:Love Is Letting Go of Fear, Third Edition Source: Love Is Letting Go of Fear, Third Edition
“With 28 million children eating lunch at school every day in the United States, I believe government has an obligation to ensure parents have some peace of mind when they send their children off to school in the morning, .. Since children are particularly vulnerable to foodborne illness, schools must be vigilant in their efforts to ensure that cafeterias are not putting children at risk. These changes in law will support parents who want to work with school principals and food-service directors to ensure a safe environment.” WantMindBelieveChildrenStatesGovernmentSchoolLawI BelieveParentUnitedEffortMorningMillionsUnited StatesSupportEnvironmentRiskDirectorsSafeEatingIllnessObligationVulnerablePeace Of MindLunchPrincipalIn-lawsVigilantCafeteriaSafe EnvironmentFood ServiceSchool PrincipalEating Lunch Author:Rosa DeLauro
“You never really know what the director has got in his mind as far as the scene visually and art direction wise.” KnowsMindArtWiseSceneDirectorsArt Direction Author:Guy Pearce
“There's very few directors I think in this industry that would pitch to a studio that they wanted to do a multi-layered almost at times existential high action, high drama surreal film that's sort of locked in his mind. And then have an opportunity to do that.” ThinkingMindActionWantedFilmOpportunityIndustryDramaDirectorsStudiosLockedExistentialSurreal Author:Christopher Nolan
“The thing I absolutely hate is when directors don't know what they want, and then they ask you to do it this way, and then maybe that way, and maybe that way, because they haven't made up their minds what they want. So you're running around in circles trying to give them what they want.” KnowsWayWantGivingTryingMindMadeRunningHateAsksHavensDirectorsCircles Author:Diana Rigg
“You get a script and you love it. You find a director that you trust, and it becomes all about how do I commit to this as fully as possible? And the last thing you can afford to have in your mind is what are other people going to think of this?” PeopleThinkingMindLastsDirectorsScriptsCommit Author:James Van Der Beek
“To me, acting is a matter of absolute concentration. You can laugh and giggle with your friends up to the minute the director says, "Action!" Then you snap your mind into shape and into the character that you're playing and relate to the people that you're acting with and forget everybody else that you've been joking with.” PeopleMindMatterCharacterActionForgetActingLaughingMinutesShapesDirectorsAbsolutesRelateConcentrationSnapsGiggle Author:Elizabeth Taylor
“I guess if there's one thing that might surprise people about me, it's that I'm very obedient. I'm kind of like a dog. I look at acting as kind of a service industry. You're there to serve the writer and the director. I don't really look at it as an act of self-expression, like I'm going to say what's on my mind.” PeopleIfsMindLooksKindSelfMightActingOne ThingDogExpressionIndustryDirectorsSurpriseObedientSelf ExpressionService Industry Author:Michael Shannon
“The director makes the movie. The director has to have the story in their head, has to know the style of the piece, has to answer questions from actors, design, set, lighting, every department throughout the pre-production, production, and post-production, because they've got it in their mind. They've got to know exactly what they want and what the style and story of the movie is. It's them. They make it.” KnowsWantMindStoriesActorsAnswersPiecesStyleDesignDirectorsProductionsPostsDepartmentLightingPost Production Author:Jon Lovitz
“Actors have seven tracks going in their minds: They've got all the research they've done for the part, then they have whatever the director asked them to do, then they've got what the departments like special effects need them to do.” NeedsMindDoneActorsSpecialEffectsDirectorsResearchSevenTrackDepartmentSpecial Effects Author:Tobin Bell
“I've always felt it's the directors purview to say what; it's the actor's purview to say how. It's not good for an actor to have the big picture in mind - it bollocks you up. An actor's purview is the tiny little... We measure our performance in seconds.” MindLittlesBigsActorsFeltDirectorsPerformancesTinySecondsBig Picture Author:William H. Macy
“You never really know what the director has got in his mind as far as the scene visually and art direction wise, etc. Even if you do, sometimes there's a side of things that don't necessarily gel the way people intend. So there a bit of a mystical entity, film.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayMindArtSometimesFilmBitsSidesWiseSceneDirectorsEtcEntityMysticalArt Direction Author:Guy Pearce
“I love working with women directors. They don't mind making you cute.” MindDirectorsCute Author:Jack Nicholson
“My scripts are always heavily noted. If I can take a director to one side and say, "Do you mind if we try this?," a few days before, that's usually a better way of doing it then on the day.” IfsWayTryingMindI CanSidesDirectorsScriptsBetter Ways Author:Nick Frost
“[on editing of the films] There is always a question of time, and the director. I've worked with a lot of directors who don't mind my involvement. They appreciated it.” MindFilmDirectorsEditingAppreciatedInvolvement Author:Richard Gere
“Sometimes when I make a movie, my main goal is to show the movie to one particular director.It's not about competing. It's mostly about someone who did something that blew your mind and you want to see if you can render the joy.” IfsWantMindSometimesShowsJoyGoalParticularDirectorsCompeting Author:Gaspar Noe
“There are two kinds of filmmaking: Hitchcock's (the film is complete in the director's mind) and Coppola's (which thrives on process). For Hitchcock, any variation from the complete internal idea is seen as a defect. The perfection already exists. Coppola's approach is to harvest the random elements that the process throws up, things that were not in his mind when he began.” MindKindTwoIdeasFilmProcessDirectorsElementsApproachPerfectionThriveInternalsFilmmakingHarvestDefectsVariationHitchcock Author:Walter Murch
“I have a hard time visualizing anything, which is why I'm not a director, and which is why I try to work with ones I know have a strong idea in mind.” KnowsTryingMindIdeasHardStrongDirectorsHard TimesVisualizing Author:Catherine Keener
“I detest producing. I mean, I feel like I do it to enable myself to do all the other stuff that I do love, but I find it's in conflict with the other roles because the producer needs to be the one who says "No" and the director and the writer need to let their mind be free.” NeedsFeelsMindMeanStuffRolesDirectorsConflictProducersDetest Author:Julie Davis
“I have tried to write soundtracks, and the main problem with those was that the directors often had in their minds a much stronger sense of what they wanted to hear, than what I was willing to give them, and I guess there was no way to say, "Well why don't you write your scene around my music?" Because that's just cocky and awful.” WayGivingWritingMindWellsProblemWantedWillingSceneDirectorsMusic IsStrongerAwfulCockySoundtracks Author:Zach Condon
“There are many, many different kinds of movies and directors and styles. I don't mind that a movie looks like a movie.” MindLooksKindDifferentStyleDirectorsDifferent Kinds Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“The director Denis [Villeneuve] is actually an actor (he's from Sons of Anarchy and he's a great character actor) and he's also a screenwriter (he wrote What Lies Beneath). It blows my mind to see when people from one sector move to another and excel. I think Sicario was one of the best directed and written films. It did get [a nomination for best] cinematography, though.” PeopleThinkingMindCharacterFilmMovingLyingActorsWrittenSonDirectorsBlowAnarchyScreenwritersNominationsGreat CharacterCharacter ActorsCinematography Author:Bun B
“When I read the script [of Good Kill], it read like a science fiction film. And Andrew [writer/director Andrew Niccol] is known for sci-fi. But when I spoke to him, he said this picture was 100% factual, which blew my mind. I realized then how little I knew about the drone program. And I felt that, if I knew so little about it, there must be others who should be educated about what's going on.” IfsShouldMindLittlesSaidFilmFeltFictionKnownDirectorsProgramScience FictionScriptsI RealizedEducatedSpokesSci FiAndrewDronesFactual Author:Zoe Kravitz
“A guy friend I was speaking to said he was talking to a group of male producersand he was just shocked that they said, "But if we give women directors a job they're going to take jobs away from the men." I almost fell out of my chair. But when I encounter this kind of thing, what I try to do is give a chiropractic adjustment to the mind, quickly.” IfsMenGivingTryingMindKindSaidJobsGuyTalkingGroupsHe ManDirectorsMalesEncountersChairsThey SaidShockedAdjustmentChiropracticGuy Friend Author:Rose McGowan
“People have curiosity, they have intelligence, they have interest in understanding their peers. But producers and directors of cinema have decided that the seats in the theaters have been made to transform people's minds to lazy minds.” PeopleMindHas BeensMadeUnderstandingInterestDirectorsDecidedTheaterCuriosityProducersCinemaSeatsLazyPeers Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“There's nothing worse than a director that keeps changing their mind. Because, unlike the directors I work with, I'm not decisive at all.” MindDirectors Author:Cliff Martinez
“I can tell you it makes a big difference to have a director who is collaborative. What motivates a character in my mind could be completely different from what the director's thinking. You have to have those conversations ahead of time and throughout the process. It affects the performance.” ThinkingMindI CanDifferentCharacterBigsProcessDifferencesDirectorsConversationPerformancesAhead Of Time Author:Nia Long