“Marlee has said a million times, "Wouldn't it be funny if there was a camera trained on the two of us?" because we get involved in some very interesting situations. We'll be on a plane and she gets handed a Braille menu because they think she is blind, or producers that turn to the director of a show she's on and say, "Marlee Matlin is great, but is she going to be deaf for the whole show?" She used to freak people out with the speaker phone in her car by having me sign what they were saying on the speaker phone and then she would speak herself.” PeopleIfsThinkingSaidTwoWholeShowsUsedTurnsSpeakInterestingSituationMillionsCarInvolvedDirectorsCamerasBlindPhonesProducersPlanesFreakSpeakersDeafVery InterestingGet InvolvedMenusTwo Of UsBrailleInteresting Situations Author:Jack Jason
“One final thing a director needs: The ability to say 'I am wrong' or 'I was wrong.' Not as easy as it sounds. But in many situations, these 3 words, honestly spoken, will save the day.” NeedsEasySoundAbilitySituationDirectorsFinalsHonestly Author:Elia Kazan
“In the theater the audience is generally riveted to a single angle of observation. The movie director, though, can rapidly shift from objective to subjective--and to any number of subjective points of view--and in so doing seem to pull the audience directly inside the frame of his picture, giving the spectator the sense of experiencing an action from the viewpoint of a participant. Identification of the viewer with the film character, then, can be much more intimate than the analogous situation in the theater.” GivingCharacterSeemsActionFilmViewsNumbersSituationAudienceDirectorsTheaterPoint Of ViewObjectivesObservationCinemaIntimateAngleViewersSubjectiveSpectatorsParticipantsViewpointsIdentificationMovie Director Author:Ed Murray
“A male director doesn't come to situations the same way that a female director would.” WaySituationDirectorsFemaleMales Author:Liz W. Garcia
“However happy the director is, I have to be okay with it. I'm pretty strict with myself, about throwing things out or trying to be true to whatever the situation dictates.” TryingSituationDirectorsOkayBeing TrueThrowingStrictThrowing Things Author:Martin Freeman
“CIA Director George Tenet briefed a Senate panel ... about the current situation in Iraq. He described how cash was being stolen and women were being assaulted with impunity. Senators love to attend these continuing education seminars.” SituationDirectorsIraqCurrentsCashSenateContinuingSenatorsStolenCiaImpunitySeminarsCurrent Situation Author:Argus Hamilton
“Richard Curtis, the writer and director of Love Actually, is brilliant at many things, but his genius, I submit, is for thrusting characters into situations in which they feel driven to humiliate themselves. Which is why we love them, especially when it's all in the name of love. He is the Bard of Embarrassment.” FeelsCharacterNamesSituationGeniusDirectorsDrivenBrilliantSubmitEmbarrassmentHumiliateBardsLove Actually Author:David Edelstein
“Yeah, well I can't see a situation where I wouldn't at least re-write as a director something I was going to direct. At the moment, I wouldn't direct anything that I hadn't written. I can now say, as everybody else says, that it all depends on the script.” WritingWellsI CanMomentsSituationWrittenDependsDirectorsDirectYeahScripts Author:William Monahan
“I have always firmly believed that every director should be judged solely by their work, and not by their work based on their gender. Hollywood is supposedly a community of forward thinking and progressive people yet this horrific situation for women directors persists. Gender discrimination stigmatizes our entire industry. Change is essential. Gender neutral hiring is essential.” PeopleThinkingShouldCommunitySituationIndustryDirectorsEssentialsHollywoodGenderDiscriminationProgressiveJudgedPersistHiringHorrificForward ThinkingGender GapGender Discrimination Author:Kathryn Bigelow
“A director is what a director wants to be. If you want to force something, you can fight to the death and maybe get fired, but it's your job to help push things along.” IfsWantDifferentHelpingJobsFightingForceSituationDirectors Author:Jon M. Chu
“Therefore, when you see the end result, it's difficult to see who's the director, me or them. Ultimately, everything belongs to the actors - we just manage the situation.” EndsActorsDifficultResultsSituationDirectorsManageEnd Results Author:Abbas Kiarostami