“In the stand-up comedy top, there's room for everyone - if you're good, there's room for everyone. You'll put on your own show - no one casts you. You cast your own show as a stand-up comedian. When you get good at stand-up comedy you book a theater and if people show up, people show up. If people don't show up, people don't show up. You don't have a director or a casting agent or anybody saying if you're good enough - the audience will decide.” PeopleIfsBookEnoughShowsRoomsAudienceComedyDirectorsTheaterCastsAgentsComedianGood EnoughCastingStand Up ComedyStand Up Comedian Author:Jim Jefferies
“You have to have a thick enough skin to cope with the criticism. I'm very self-critical and I have a lot of friends that I trust who are film directors and writers and people in my profession.” PeopleSelfEnoughFilmDirectorsCriticismSkinsCriticalProfessionThickLots Of FriendsFilm Directors Author:George Lucas
“It might sound crazy, but filming in a conflict zone, in Afghanistan, and being a female filmmaker was the easy part. I found people open and understanding of the importance and beauty of filmic storytelling. I never had to explain why Jake Bryant, my Director of Photography, and I were climbing up a ladder to get a high shot, or running ahead to get an arrival shot, or filming weeks after weeks, months after months, collecting so much material. The process was respected and honored.” PeopleMightRunningFoundEasyProcessUnderstandingSoundWeekCrazyMaterialsMonthsDirectorsConflictPhotographyShotsFemaleImportanceStorytellingFilmmakerZoneClimbingAfghanistanHonoredLaddersCollectingArrivalsJakeClimbing Up Author:Pietra Brettkelly
“I learned that as a director, you're around all these talented people, so you have this window that all these really good ideas can come in to help your movie, so you're crazy to close them. You need to be inspiring people, engaging people. There are lots of people who are really good at their jobs but might not know or feel like they want to come up to people and get them to participate and want to do their best.” PeopleKnowsWantNeedsFeelsIdeasHelpingMightJobsCrazyDirectorsWindowCome UpGood IdeasEngaging Author:Ben Affleck
“When I look around and see how aged cartoonists continue to work on their manga and how movie directors create new movies all the time, I understand that they would never retire. And by the same token, I guess I will still be making games somehow. The only question is whether the younger people will be willing to work with me at that far point in the future.” PeopleLooksStillsGamesWillingDirectorsRetiringCartoonistTokensMovie Director Author:Shigeru Miyamoto
“When I work on a film, you know, I try to get or inhabit the body of the character -from the vision of the directors or how i think the character should be - so if it's a film like SPEED, you hit the gym, you get to do some, train with SWAT People, hehe, but in general, I'm really focused and dedicated, and then in regular life, I don't go to the gym as often.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsShouldTryingCharacterBodyFilmVisionDirectorsTrainFocusedSpeedGymDedicated Author:Keanu Reeves
“As an artist - I'm sure like most creative people - you have a kind of board of directors that you make your work for. It's a group of people that you have, these friends, and you want to know what they think. In a weird way, you're making the work for them.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWantKindArtistCreativeGroupsDirectorsBoardsCreative PeopleBoard Of Directors Author:Robert Longo
“People think women directors are tough. Truth is, I'm a pussycat and I hate conflict. I just want everyone to be happy on set.” PeopleThinkingWantHateTruth IsDirectorsConflictToughI Hate Author:Julie Delpy
“When you are shooting a movie, you have to collaborate with many, many, many people. First of all, the director with all his own ideas and I can only just help him with that. I cannot change his idea.” PeopleFirstsI CanIdeasHelpingDirectorsShooting Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“Kubrick was one of those directors who actually did practically everything in his movies. He actually directed, photographed, wrote, lit, edited - everything. A few people can be like that.” PeopleDirectorsLitEdited Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“I like to work with talented people, I must say that. That's my weakness. I really like to work with good directors. That doesn't mean I don't like to work with starting up young directors, that's fun also.” PeopleMeanYoungFunDirectorsWeaknessStartingGood DirectorsStarting Up Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“I'd made pretty clear to the people at Paramount and Dreamworks that, if they wanted Lemony Snicket to comment, he would be completely horrified by the entire film. And as long as they understood that, it was okay. I'm not much of a fan of DVD commentaries myself, so this was my way of getting revenge, in a sense, for all the puffed-up directors and stars who talk endlessly about the self-aggrandizing minutiae of making a movie.” PeopleIfsWayLongMadeSelfWould BeWantedFilmStarsClearFansDirectorsUnderstoodOkayRevengeMy WayCommentCommentaryDvdsParamountMinutiaeSnicketDreamworksGetting Revenge Author:Daniel Handler
“I wrote a comedy, which hopefully [Rick director] Curtiss Clayton will bring to the screen, that I thought was the antithesis of all my work. I thought it was light and sunshiny, and Mr. Clayton reminded me that it is the story of a woman kidnapped and forced to do things against her will, which is not what most people think of as light and sunshiny.” PeopleThinkingStoriesLightComedyDirectorsScreensHopefullyAntithesisKidnapped Author:Daniel Handler
“3D needs a trained eye. It can't be done by everybody. People who just do 3D just for the sake of commercializing their movie another five or six percent and they don't know really how to do it, they should care how to do it better by bringing other directors and collaborators into their lives to help teach and instruct how you really make a 3D movie because it's not just like putting a new lens on a camera and forgetting it. It takes a lot of very careful consideration. It will change your approach to where you put the cameras. So, 3D isn't for everybody.” PeopleKnowsNeedsShouldDoneHelpingEyeCareForgetTeachFiveDirectorsSixApproachPercentCamerasSakeCarefulConsiderationLensesCollaborators Author:Steven Spielberg
“If there is one thing that, as a director, you don't want to be a part of, it's a group. It's the same thing with music. I don't want to be a part of a scene. Just leave me alone. It's just my nature, and it's nothing against the people that are in that group, but I just like to be left alone.” PeopleIfsWantLeftOne ThingGroupsSceneDirectorsLeaving MeMe AloneLeft AloneLeave Me AloneJust Leave Me Alone Author:Rob Zombie
“There's only a handful of directors who really understand what I call the alchemical balance between a man and a woman, in a woman's body, which most people consider the strong woman character.” PeopleMenCharacterBodyStrongBalanceDirectorsStrong WomenHandfulWomen's Bodies Author:Michelle Rodriguez
“The directors of such companies, however, being the managers rather of other people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expected, that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own.... Negligence and profusion, therefore, must always prevail, more or less, in the management of the affairs of such a company.” PeopleShouldWellsCompanyWatchesDirectorsManagementAffairExpectedPartnersManagersOver ItAnxiousVigilanceNegligence Author:Adam Smith
“Film buffs who don't live in Hollywood have a fantasy about what it's like to be a director. Movies and the people who make movies have such glamour associated with them. But the truth is, it's not like that. It's very different. It's hard work.” PeopleDifferentHardFilmFantasyHard WorkTruth IsDirectorsHollywoodGlamour Author:John Carpenter
“People have asked me throughout the years which directors have influenced me. I don't know their names, because I was mostly influenced when I'd see a film and think, "Man, I want to be sure to never do anything like that." So I never learned their names. It wasn't a matter of copying or emulating somebody I admired. It was getting rid of a lot of stuff.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMenWantYearsMatterFilmNamesStuffDirectorsCopying Author:Robert Altman
“As a director and filmmaker, I love creating my own opportunity, and getting to share the love, in that way, by creating other opportunities for people that I admire, so that they can do something in a way they haven't done it before.” PeopleWayDoneOpportunityCan DoMy OwnShareHavensDirectorsCreatingAdmireFilmmakerCan Do Something Author:Mark Webber
“As a filmmaker, it's about surviving and lasting. So many talented people that I've known in my life - directors and writers - just haven't made it and haven't had a chance.” PeopleMadeChanceKnownHavensDirectorsMade ItFilmmakerLastingSurviving Author:John Carpenter
“I think to be a good director you have to be a good person and you have to care about people.” PeopleThinkingPersonsCareDirectorsGood PersonBeing A Good PersonGood Directors Author:Kristen Stewart
“The first thing I say when people ask what's the difference [between doing TV and film], is that film has an ending and TV doesn't. When I write a film, all I think about is where the thing ends and how to get the audience there. And in television, it can't end. You need the audience to return the next week. It kind of shifts the drive of the story. But I find that more as a writer than as a director.” PeopleThinkingNeedsWritingFirstsKindEndsStoriesFilmNextAsksDifferencesAudienceWeekTelevisionTvsReturnDirectorsNext Week Author:Jason Reitman
“I think the dictator director is based upon stories from the past. I don't think anyone would put up with it now. There are a lot of people on a film set with egos. So, to be completely authoritarian, you'd probably have to have a reputation like Kurosowa or somebody to get away with it.” PeopleThinkingStoriesPastFilmDirectorsEgoReputationGet AwayDictatorFilm Set Author:Colin Firth
“It's entirely to do with personality, I think. There are good directors who talk a lot, bad directors who talk a lot, and good directors who don't say much and vice-versa. It just depends on whether people respond to that personality and whether people have a willingness to do something for them.” PeopleThinkingPersonalityDependsDirectorsVicesWillingnessVice VersaGood Directors Author:Colin Firth
“Some people come up to be directors by coming through the camera department and there's not a lot of women in the camera department. The ones that are have to kind of prove they're one of the boys, I think. I don't want to get into trouble with generalisations but I think it's a fair observation.” PeopleThinkingWantKindBoysTroubleDirectorsProveFairsCamerasCome UpObservationDepartmentGeneralisation Author:Colin Firth
“I think I've grown up in an era where character acting on film has become less desirable for the producers and directors and therefore the audience. They have got used to the people that those actors really are.” PeopleThinkingCharacterFilmUsedActorsActingAudienceDirectorsProducersErasDesirable Author:David Suchet
“In personal conversations between director and actor, the male directors that I've worked with are just as emotional. Maybe it's because I had to start having very intimate conversations with adult men at a very young age in order to get the work, but I'm really comfortable with dudes. I mean, we push boundaries in this business in terms of getting to know people.” PeopleKnowsMenMeanAgeYoungOrderActorsTermEmotionalDirectorsConversationComfortableAdultsMalesBoundariesIntimateYoung AgeIntimate Conversation Author:Kristen Stewart
“There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know.” PeopleKnowsDirectors Author:Kristen Stewart
“I think film is a director's medium and the good filmmakers that I like tell the darker stories. Therefore, I'm always inclined to follow people like David Cronenberg.” PeopleThinkingStoriesFilmDirectorsMediumsFilmmaker Author:Naomi Watts
“The truth is I like the crazy ones better than the well-behaved ones normally because they tend to be the passionate ones. They never come after you if you're holding up your end. The only thing that's bad about an abusive director is that they bully the people they can.” PeopleIfsWellsEndsCrazyTruth IsDirectorsPassionateBullyAbusive Author:Willem Dafoe
“I think in a post-9/11 world, with the images coming back from Iraq, everybody knows more and more people who are going over there... the images on the YouTube phenomenon where the violence is so immediate. Direct people need something stronger to respond to. I think that there's definitely a wave of directors - who are labelled the splat pack - who really, really care about making great scary movies.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldNeedsCareViolenceDirectorsDirectStrongerWaveIraqScaryPostsPhenomenonPacksComing BackYoutube Author:Eli Roth
“There are people who just collect a bunch of footage and then edit it later. You definitely feel more protected when a director is moving on when you've actually felt something happen and you know they're watching intently.” PeopleKnowsFeelsHappensMovingFeltDirectorsThings HappenBunchProtectedEdits Author:Matt Damon
“I always say to people when I'm trying to get something going, bringing on other producers or other directors, "You can think of 95 reasons why not to make a movie. You've got to address why you want to make the movie and get it done. Just do it." I tend to live by that rule.” PeopleThinkingWantTryingReasonDoneDirectorsProducersReason WhyAddressesLive ByWhy NotJust Do ItGet It Done Author:Ridley Scott
“I try to attach myself to people who really inspire me, and directors who are really passionate. That way, I can give myself more fully and trust the impulse behind why the film is being made, and I can be a little more irresponsible in finding out what the character is.” PeopleWayGivingTryingLittlesMadeI CanCharacterFilmBehindsInspireDirectorsFindingsPassionateImpulseIrresponsible Author:Willem Dafoe
“If a director says he doesn't care how many people see his films at all, I simply don't believe him. Otherwise why would he bother to make the film? The only explanation would be that it would be an act of masturbation. I think that every creator is looking for a receptor. He's looking for an audience. There are two parts of the equation: a creator and, necessarily, the receiver of the work. It's the same thing for a painter who wants his paintings to be seen.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantBelieveTwoWould BeCareFilmAudiencePaintingDirectorsDon't BelieveCreatorPainterBotherExplanationWorking ItEquationsMasturbationReceiverHe Doesn't Care Author:Michael Haneke
“People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film.” PeopleThinkingEyeFilmActorsAudienceDirectorsDirect Author:Julianne Moore
“Be yourself. Forget about whether you are male or female and just work hard to become a director who truly knows her craft and the direction she wants the film to go. People respect a director for her work regardless of her gender.” PeopleKnowsWantHardFilmForgetHard WorkDirectorsFemaleMalesGenderCraftsBeing Yourself Author:Mabel Cheung
“I ain't the first on the list that people are sending scripts to. I'm very lucky. I've managed to put myself in the position with some directors, who will be calling me directly, and we're working on things and talking about things, but that's on a purely creative level.” PeopleFirstsLevelsTalkingCreativePositionCallingLuckyDirectorsScriptsLists Author:Christian Bale
“There's music in my films but you seldom hear it. Very early I got the idea that the important things in films were people - the actors. They are the intermediary between the director and the audience. They make direct contact. People to people communication.” PeopleImportantIdeasFilmActorsAudienceCommunicationDirectorsDirectImportant ThingsContact Author:Frank Capra
“I don't really distinguish between a fictional hero and a real life hero as a basis for any comparison. To me, a hero is a hero. I like making pictures about people who have a personal mission in life or at least in the life of a story who start out with certain low expectations and then over achieve our highest expectations for them. That's the kind of character arc I love dabbling in as a director, as a filmmaker.” PeopleKindRealCharacterStoriesCertainAchieveHeroDirectorsHighestLowsExpectationsBasesMissionsReal LifeFilmmakerComparisonArcsMissions In LifeLow ExpectationsDabblingPersonal Mission Author:Steven Spielberg
“Things maybe take longer usually when it comes to TV - especially network TV. There are usually multiple levels that you have to go through in terms of the casting director, the producers, the studio, the network, reading with other people.” PeopleReadingTermLevelsTvsDirectorsStudiosProducersMultipleCastingCasting Directors Author:Andre Holland
“I'm not tough when it comes to people criticizing the people that I protect, and those are the actors. It makes them scared to do it again for another director.” PeopleActorsDirectorsProtectToughScaredCriticize Author:Lee Daniels
“People have a different idea of how movies are made than they really are. On a certain level, everyone throws ideas into the hopper. It's not like the actors are wind-up dolls that you push out onto the floor, play with, then put back in the box. You get people around you who you trust; the writer, the producer, the director and all the actors all contribute.” PeopleMadeIdeasDifferentPlayCertainActorsLevelsWindDirectorsBoxesProducersDollsDifferent Ideas Author:Richard Gere
“I have a lot of respect for people who are great at ad-libbing, and for writers and directors who are able to create a scene in which that works.” PeopleAbleSceneDirectorsAds Author:Aaron Sorkin
“I think it's worse for actors, though, because people have to choose you. As a director, I get to choose the actors, but most of the time, actors have to be chosen in order to work.” PeopleThinkingOrderActorsDirectorsChosen Author:Terry Gilliam
“I wanted to just surround myself with people who I think are better than I am, whether they're actors or directors or producers, so that I could learn from them.” PeopleThinkingWantedActorsDirectorsProducersSurround Author:Mila Kunis
“When I think about directing a film, the thing that stops me short is wondering if I'm a natural at it the way I think you, and PTA, and Fincher are born directors. Maybe some people's talent is in understanding the ways that film communicates, without dialogue, without plot.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayFilmUnderstandingBornNaturalWonderTalentDirectorsCommunicateDialoguePlotPta Author:Edward Norton
“Auditioning is a funny one. It's all about energy. If you walk into a room and the room feels off or the people feel off, that can set you off. If the room is very small. I know which casting directors I should go to, because the place is conducive to doing a good job and the people are conducive and I know the other ones aren't, in which case I send in a tape.” PeopleIfsKnowsFeelsShouldJobsEnergyWalksRoomsCasesDirectorsTapeGood JobCastingCasting Directors Author:Max Irons
“It was never a deliberate decision to make films about the 'woman experience'. Having said that, we are all many things - for example I'm Igbo and Nigerian, a director, a filmmaker etc., but I feel what affects me the most, especially the way people/society view or treat me, is the fact that I'm a woman, and I'm fascinated by that.” PeopleWayFeelsSaidFactsFilmDecisionViewsExampleDirectorsTreatsFilmmakerEtcFascinatedDeliberate Author:Chika Anadu