“The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents.” HappensJobsFilmNightAudienceMovementTerribleDirectorsBurdenAccidentsDisasterSelectVacuumsYawning Author:Orson Welles
“A choreographer deals with the movement that you create, and with a creative director it's about the story, the stage, the lighting, the costuming, executing someone's idea, choosing how far to go or how little to go, and blending it so that you feel it, you're emotionally effected.” FeelsLittlesIdeasStoriesDealsCreativeStageMovementDirectorsLightingChoreographersExecuting Author:Laurieann Gibson
“On a simple level, you need directors who are good at action and can choreograph an action scene, but you need them to also have that sense of fun and that sense of movement and that ability to get the actors to really respond to the material in the way that you want them to. It's a very big thing.” WayWantNeedsBigsActionActorsFunSimpleAbilityLevelsMovementMaterialsSceneDirectorsBig Things Author:Adrian Hodges
“When I was growing up in the '50s, I had never heard of a "woman film director," so I did not consider it as an option. But I was fortunate that in the late-'60s and '70s, because of the feminist movement, women were stepping into all sorts of careers that had been closed to them in the past and film was one of them.” PastFilmCareersGrowing UpGrowingHeardMovementDirectorsLateFeministFortunateFilm DirectorsFeminist Movement Author:Chris Hegedus
“I hadn't studied theatre and I hadn't studied actor training or anything, but I did have a sense of movement and composition, and what the final product would be like, but luckily I had friends who were good actors, who would help me get them, who would get themselves to the place where a good director should get them to build characters.” ShouldCharacterHelpingWould BeActorsMovementProductsDirectorsTrainingFinalsTheatreHelp MeCompositionGood ActorsGood Directors Author:Rob Urbinati