“I'm so consistent that my director's cuts are usually 20-25 minutes longer than the released version of the movies.” CuttingMinutesDirectorsVersionsConsistent Author:M. Night Shyamalan
“If the director wishes to print it, then you have a series of choices, maybe millions of choices within that minute-and-a-half, or 80 seconds, or 2 minutes or however long or short the take is, you have all those choices committed to celluloid. I find that absolutely thrilling.” IfsLongChoicesWishHalfMillionsMinutesDirectorsSeriesCommittedPrintSecondsThrillingCelluloid Author:Ben Kingsley
“I always said to the directors that the minute a player becomes more powerful than the manager of Manchester United, it's not Manchester United. You have lost control of the whole club. So I always made sure that I was in control. They always knew who the manager was.” MadeSaidWholeLostUnitedPowerfulPlayerMinutesDirectorsClubsManagersManchesterManchester United Author:Alex Ferguson
“Certainly, for a newspaper director, to have within arm's reach a Travaglio, about whom every starring actor, supporting cast and extra of Italian political life he is ready upon cold request to provide an inquiry brief refined in the most minute details is a nice comfort. But also a bit unsettling. The day I asked him if in that archive, into which no one is allowed to stick their nose, there were a brief with my name on it, Marco changed the subject.” IfsPoliticalActorsNamesBitsNiceMinutesSubjectsChangedReadyArmsColdComfortDirectorsSticksCastsDetailsNewspapersNosesExtrasItalianInquiryRequestRefinedMarcosArchivesPolitical Life Author:Indro Montanelli
“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
“Director Michelle MacLaren is the John Cage of this malevolent silence, able to wield it as precisely as a pointillist with a paintbrush. And with 'To'hajiilee,' the final episode of Breaking Bad she'll ever direct, she has painted her masterpiece. Under the unblinking eye of her relentless camera, this was television not as entertainment but as endurance. It was agonizing, nauseating, unbearable. I loved every minute but hated every second. I couldn't wait for it to be over but I never wanted it to end. And I especially never wanted it to end like that.” EndsEyeAbleWantedWaitingSilenceMinutesTelevisionDirectorsDirectCamerasFinalsEntertainmentHatedEnduranceEpisodesCagesMasterpieceUnbearableRelentlessEvery SecondAgonizingPaintbrush Author:Andy Greenwald
“The first cut I do is usually between five and 10 minutes shorter then the cut that we release. Anything I think isn't working or might not work, I don't even put it in the director's cut. And usually it's the studio suggesting I put stuff back in, as opposed to studios saying, "You got to lose 40 minutes," they are always saying, "You've got to gain five minutes."” ThinkingFirstsMightStuffLosesFiveCuttingMinutesDirectorsGainsStudiosReleaseFive MinutesSuggesting Author:Barry Sonnenfeld
“I think the power of the short film is incredibly underrated. It is way easier to get someone to watch a 15-minute film then a full-length feature. In those 15 minutes you have the opportunity to express your voice as an artist and hopefully connect with your audience. If you are trying to be a first time feature director then a short film that demonstrates you have a grasp on the themes and concepts of the movie you want to direct is a no-brainer. Whether they are collaborators or potential investors, filmmaking is a visual art form so you obviously need visuals to show them!” IfsThinkingWayWantNeedsTryingFirstsArtShowsFilmFormArtistOpportunityVoiceWatchesAudienceMinutesEasierDirectorsConceptsFirst TimeDirectHopefullyFeaturesThemeVisualsLengthInvestorsFilmmakingVisual ArtCollaboratorsUnderratedShort FilmsNo Brainer Author:Nicholas Ozeki
“I find it rather tedious working with some actors who have to go into a corner and bounce up and down, shake their hands and arms, saying to the director, "Just a second - I'll be ready in a few minutes, " while all the other actors are waiting around to get in. Then they say, "OK! I'm ready now." And then they come on and do it exactly the same way they've done it in rehearsal.” WayDoneHandsActorsWaitingMinutesReadyArmsDirectorsCornersShakesNow And ThenUp And DownRehearsalTediousBounceWaiting Around Author:Elizabeth Taylor
“It's very bizarre though when you get hired and then the director will say, "I know how this goes." And you're thinking, "Wait a minute, I thought that I was doing this" but basically what they really want, especially if they wrote it, is they want you to do it as they imagined it. It's virtually impossible.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantWaitingKnow HowImpossibleMinutesDirectorsBizarre Author:Christopher Walken
“As an actor, you only get to work 15 minutes an hour; as a director you're fully immersed. It's incredibly more complex and challenging and I love it. I'm sort of a glutton for work and to direct something that I'm acting in feeds the vein.” ActorsHoursChallengesActingMinutesDirectorsDirectComplexesVeins Author:Jason Bateman
“I don't feel one could even remotely touch the idea of intimidating others, but because I've understood the other side of the experience, I will occasionally, if I smell that could even be in the air for a few minutes, say to the director, "Please, you must tell me anything you want. Please say all the things you think might be terribly hurtful like, 'That was boring.'"” IfsThinkingWantFeelsIdeasMightSidesAirMinutesPleaseDirectorsUnderstoodBoringSmellIntimidatingHurtful Author:Kenneth Branagh
“There are only three reasons to do a movie: the cast, the director, the role. Like I say, you live in a minute of screen time, but to prepare for the minute takes much more than a day. You'd better be excited about what those moments are, even if they're the hardest moments. Or the smallest.” IfsReasonMomentsThreeRolesMinutesDirectorsCastsExcitedScreensHardestSmallestScreen Time Author:Val Kilmer
“First and foremost, my hats off to our directors and camera department. That is something I will miss after Longmire. I can't imagine working on another show that looks like this. We'll get the whole crew out on location and have a hundred people standing around, waiting for about 40 minutes, so that sun is just a little bit further in the sky and the light is hitting the cloud, in the perfect way.” PeopleWayFirstsLooksLittlesI CanWholeShowsLightBitsWaitingPerfectSunImagineSkyMinutesMissingDirectorsLittle BitHundredStandingCamerasCloudsDepartmentHatsHittingLocationCrewHats Off Author:Bailey Chase
“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
“Interestingly, my first director's cut was an hour and forty-one minutes. Then, the studio actually wanted to add more to the story, so we went all the way up to an hour and forty-seven minutes. After that, I made some additional cuts and now we are where we are.” WayFirstsMadeStoriesWantedHoursCuttingMinutesDirectorsAddSevenStudiosFortyOne Minute Author:Kim Jee-woon
“As an actor, when you walk into a room to audition, you get five minutes with a casting director, who doesn't even look at you, most of the time.” LooksActorsWalksRoomsFiveMinutesDirectorsAuditionsCastingFive MinutesCasting Directors Author:Mark Duplass
“I had a 90-minute one-man show. I performed it and my life just exploded. Everything - my life just changed. Every writer, director, producer, studio head, movie star - they all wanted it. It was the hottest property since 'Rocky.'” MenShowsWantedStarsMinutesChangedDirectorsPropertyStudiosProducersOne ManMovie StarHottest Author:Chazz Palminteri