“My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and shoot it in such a way that it will cut together. And how to design the style and tone.” WayTogetherFilmRolesCuttingStyleDesignDirectorsCastsToneOverview Author:Jay Roach
“I like to invest as a performer in the director's vision and then bring a sense of reality to whatever I'm doing, whether it's comedy or whether it's drama, and trust that they're going to tell me if something's reading as funny or if it's reading as dramatic or reading in the right tone.” IfsRealityReadingVisionComedyDramaDirectorsDramaticTonePerformers Author:Amy Seimetz
“When you're a lead role, I'm learning that you set a tone for the movie in a way, like a director does, or like other actors do. But it seems like you set a mood on set.” WayDoeSeemsActorsRolesLike YouDirectorsMoodTone Author:Kit Harington
“To me, achieving tone, achieving consistency, is exactly the job of a director. It is to be the fusing, the nexus of a whole bunch of people contributing to the complex life of a movie. There are actors, there's a cinematographer, there're costume people, set people, there are all these things, and you somehow have to be the person in the middle of it who is making it all synchronize into the same magic bubble.” PeoplePersonsWholeJobsActorsMagicMiddleAchieveDirectorsComplexesBunchToneBubblesConsistencyCostumesContributingCinematographersNexus Author:Edward Norton
“I think when you work with really wonderful directors who have a really strong vision, it lets you as an artist set the tone for your own career.” ThinkingArtistStrongVisionCareersWonderfulDirectorsTone Author:Sarah Gadon
“Pastoureau combines a charming, conversational tone with a haughtiness I found entirely endearing. A director of studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes at the Sorbonne in Paris, he writes from a position of professorial confidence. He has conducted extensive research into the history of colour for a quarter century and his aim is to correct misapprehensions and banish ignorance. His style is not to inquire, explore or interrogate, in the fashion of academic studies today. It is to impart knowledge.” WritingTodayFoundStudyCenturyFashionStylePositionIgnoranceDirectorsResearchAimParisToneColourQuartersAcademicCharmingImpartEndearingHaughtiness Author:Sebastian Smee
“A director on a film really sets the tone of how people go about things, so everybody is happy to be at work and everybody does their best.” PeopleDoeFilmDirectorsTone Author:James Franco
“A lot of times the character's experience is not in accordance with the tone of the movie and it's not really my job to account for the tone of the movie. That's the director's job.” CharacterJobsDirectorsAccountsTone Author:Jesse Eisenberg
“The director sets the tone, and if someone's ruling it with an iron fist, people are quiet and the days go long in my experience, when there's a very serious tone, the days just drag. When there's someone who, in between takes, is joking or laughing the days go quick.” PeopleIfsLongLaughingSeriousQuietDirectorsToneIronDragFistsRuling Author:Channing Tatum
“If I'm not directing it, I need to be right in the director's ear so we can be talking about this." You do something like use the wrong music, the tone's off, and everything feels off". And I was like, "I'm not going down with this one. I wrote it, but I don't like that play." Then I thought, "Well, no one's producing my stuff, letting me star in it, and direct it at these theaters, so I'll just do them in comedy clubs."” IfsNeedsFeelsWellsPlayUseStarsStuffTalkingComedyDirectorsDirectEarsTheaterClubsToneComedy Clubs Author:Jake M. Johnson
“The thing that I think a director has to have in order to make a movie really work, and to certainly make a film that feels personal, which I hope this one does, is that you have to have a sense of the feeling that you want to create in people, the tone which you want to tell the story, and the basic themes you want to come out. You can't compromise on those because you are then not making the movie that you are going to be good at telling.” PeopleThinkingWantFeelsDoeStoriesFeelingsFilmOrderDirectorsBe GoodCompromiseToneTheme Author:George Nolfi
“The attitude of the director is really important, in terms of setting tone.” ImportantTermAttitudeDirectorsSettingSettingsTone Author:Josh Radnor
“Sometimes you think, "Oh man, this is going to be a fantastic movie," and then when you see it put together, you're like, "Oh, huh. Well, that didn't turn out quite the way I thought." Sometimes you think you're part of a project and it isn't that great, and then it sort of becomes a pleasant surprise. But I think there's just too many elements that affect the tone of a movie, so I think even for a director, it may be hard to gauge that.” ThinkingMenWayWellsMaySometimesHardTogetherTurnsDirectorsElementsProjectsSurpriseFantasticTonePleasantGaugesPleasant Surprises Author:Anna Faris
“The relationship with actor and director is probably closer to theater, in that, when we record the dialogue, there is very little in the way of the creative collaboration - no cameras, lighting or even locations. Then, once we record, the post process is very similar to the post flow in filmmaking - editing, sound design, mixing, etc. At the end of the day, it's all about storytelling and honing in on a tone by developing a rhythm and structure that suits the storytelling.” WayLittlesEndsActorsProcessSoundCreativeRecordsDesignDirectorsFlowTheaterCamerasStructureDialogueStorytellingSuitsRhythmDevelopingPostsToneThe End Of The DayEtcCollaborationFilmmakingEditingLocationLightingMixingHoningSound DesignCreative Collaboration Author:Glenn McQuaid
“To me, one of the main things that a director does is create the tone of his movie.” DoeDirectorsTone Author:Peter Sarsgaard
“When you're directing an ongoing series, the tone has already been set. So a director will come in and fulfill that tone - reinforce the characters and their behavior. The challenge is to find unique ways that you can visually tell the story while keeping the established tone and the pace and the characters.” WayCharacterStoriesChallengesDirectorsBehaviorUniqueSeriesTonePaceOngoing Author:Bryan Cranston
“It was really executed well, from the art direction to the wardrobe to everyone else. And I have to say, two really exceptional directors who did three each. Roxann [Dawson] did the first three and Jeremy [Webb] did the second three. And I think they really were very meticulous in getting the right tone because it is both. It isn't dour and it isn't grim, but it's not a romp either. It's truthful and it has room for both of those things.” ThinkingFirstsWellsArtTwoThreeRoomsDirectorsToneTruthfulExceptionalWardrobeGrimMeticulousArt Direction Author:Gary Cole
“One of the first decisions I made, as the director of "Hide and Seek," was that our film would be silent and use underscoring of original music that I was planning on composing. The decision was mostly predicated on knowing how time consuming the editing of dialogue can be and given the various locations we shot in, I didn't want to worry about having to mix room tones in such a short amount of time.” WantFirstsMadeUseWould BeFilmGivenDecisionRoomsWorryKnowingAmountDirectorsShotsOriginalsSilentVariousPlanningDialogueToneEditingLocationConsumingComposingTime ConsumingHide And SeekOriginal Music Author:Garth Kravits