“I studied cinema at the university so I had a very classical approach to it. I studied all those silent films, and then the films from the 1940's, the Nouvelle Vague, the late Hollywood films. Now I realize, as a young actor, that it's one of my duties to actually be aware of what is today's industry and today's next big directors.” BigsTodayFilmYoungNextActorsRealizingDutyIndustryDirectorsLateApproachHollywoodSilentUniversityCinemaVagueYoung ActorsHollywood FilmsSilent Films Author:Gaspard Ulliel
“You realize as a director that when you are cutting a film, you want to have alternatives. You need color and choices. You don't want four takes that are identical.” WantNeedsFilmChoicesRealizingFourCuttingColorDirectorsAlternativesIdentical Author:Dolph Lundgren
“Director Ken Burns revealed that his next documentary is about Franklin Roosevelt, and it's fourteen hours long...which sounds like too much, until you realize there's been over thirty hours of TV dedicated to Honey Boo Boo.” LongRealityNextPoliticsSoundRealizingCommunityHoursHistoryComedyToo MuchTvsDirectorsThirtyHoneyDedicatedDocumentariesFranklinFourteenBoo BooHoney Boo Boo Author:Jimmy Fallon
“Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces, anyway.” UseHandsFacesActorsRealizingDirectorsTendenciesOrchestraConductor Author:Alan J. Pakula
“As a director, when you cut scenes from a movie, you do it with the idea that it is making the story move forward and progress. Sometimes, you don't realize that something is actually a sidetrack for the story, or it takes the tension out of a scene.” IdeasSometimesStoriesMovingRealizingCuttingProgressSceneDirectorsMoving ForwardTension Author:Catherine Hardwicke
“As a director, you try to do things that are going to touch the human experience somehow, and emotions that mean something to people. You search for those projects and you hope to realize the potential in a project.” PeopleTryingHumansMeanRealizingEmotionDirectorsProjectsHuman Experience Author:Catherine Hardwicke
“There have been directors that I did not enjoy working with, but for the most part I realize that I have been unbelievably spoiled in my career because I have worked with some of the greatest, greatest directors ever.” Has BeensEnjoyRealizingCareersDirectorsSpoiled Author:Meryl Streep
“What is an artistic picture? An artistic picture is very simple. The creator is not the producer. The creator is not the star. The creator is the director, the person who realizes the picture, like a poet, like an artist. The creator of the picture is free to do whatever he wants, how he wants to do it. That is an artistic picture.” WantPersonsArtistStarsRealizingSimplePoetDirectorsCreatorProducersArtistic Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky
“I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.” RealizingAttentionDirectorsHollywoodIndependentFilmmakerSensibilityContradictoryAttention SpanShort Attention Spans Author:Doug Liman
“Realizing that my surroundings were going to be built around me, the way that I performed, we helped the directors through the performance, to create the world that we were going to be seen in. I was very fascinated with that.” WorldWayRealizingDirectorsBuiltPerformancesFascinatedSurroundings Author:Dennis Haysbert
“What you realize is that a lot of actors want to be directed. They're there to do the best job they can for the director. They have a lot of questions, and your job is to have answers.” WantJobsActorsRealizingAnswersDirectorsDo The BestBest Job Author:Jon Turteltaub
“As first time director, though, you're like a new officer coming up to be in charge of very serious veterans, and you're always going to have guys looking at each other for the first day until they realize you're not screwing around.” FirstsGuyRealizingSeriousDirectorsFirst TimeOfficersVeteran Author:William Monahan
“I think having women behind the cameras is exciting - whether it's as a director or a writer or a producer - because it does feel like we're in the middle of this awakening of realizing that it's important for women to have a voice.” ThinkingFeelsDoeImportantVoiceRealizingBehindsMiddleDirectorsExcitingCamerasAwakeningProducers Author:Mary Elizabeth Ellis
“Some of my favorite scenes aren't in the movie. Because you, at some point, realize that your responsibility as director is purely to the story. It's not to your pleasure.” StoriesRealizingPleasureResponsibilitySceneDirectorsMy Favorite Author:Mark Ruffalo