“I take it very seriously, music. I think it's one of the tools that a director has with which to kind of paint. The right music can sometimes do five pages of scripted dialogue.” ThinkingKindSometimesFiveDirectorsPagesToolsPaintDialogue Author:Todd Phillips
“Music is just one of the tools a director has with which to paint and I think it's one of the most effective.” ThinkingDirectorsMusic IsToolsPaintJust One Author:Todd Phillips
“The director's who want to be innovative use the DVD as a tool to see what people have done in the past and you have other people who will actually take from better directors and that makes them better directors.” PeopleWantDoneUsePastDirectorsToolsInnovativeDvds Author:Jerry Bruckheimer
“I'm not only a writer, but have directed and produced, know the difficulties of the line producer, can deal with the studio, can talk with the director and get his or her vision and help exact that. I think it just gives you more tools.” ThinkingKnowsGivingHelpingLinesDealsVisionDirectorsToolsDifficultyStudiosProducers Author:John Lee Hancock
“There are a lot of actors who will watch the monitors. They'll do a scene, and then the director will look back to see if he got whatever he wanted. I just find it odd to sit there and watch yourself. But if you can be objective, I can see how it's really useful as a tool, especially if you're doing something physical.” IfsLooksI CanWantedActorsWatchesSceneDirectorsToolsObjectivesOdd Author:Ray Liotta
“As a means of supporting experiential element in film, once I begin to work on a particular movie I consider myself to be the tool of the director.” MeanFilmParticularDirectorsElementsTools Author:Jack Nicholson
“What a director does... essentially, it's storytelling, but a director also controls the feeling and the sounds and the texture. It's an act of creation, like a symphony or a painting or a story. But with different tools.” DoeDifferentStoriesFeelingsSoundCreationPaintingDirectorsToolsStorytellingSymphonyTexture Author:John Carpenter
“If someone were to hire me for a film they'd be getting a certain kind of package, that's for sure, a certain set of tools. But I would listen to the director.” IfsKindFilmCertainDirectorsToolsPackages Author:Mike Patton
“I certainly like the actor to have as much lee-way as possible. In the same way that director Bong was generous enough to let me create, you have to do that for actors, as well, and let them use the tools they have, and part of that is their own brains and their own words.” WayWellsEnoughUseActorsBrainDirectorsToolsLet MeGenerousBongs Author:Kelly Masterson
“A director can come from anywhere, but having a story background, if you have nothing else, is probably a good thing to have because it's really the one tool you need.” IfsNeedsStoriesDirectorsToolsGood ThingsBackgrounds Author:Dan Scanlon
“As a director, you want to be really connected to every part of your set, from your actors all the way to your camera operators. Everybody is a part of the creative process, and if they feel like they're part of a team versus just being a tool, they're going to give you something special.” IfsWayWantGivingFeelsActorsProcessCreativeTeamSpecialDirectorsToolsCamerasConnectedCreative ProcessJust BeingVersusSomething SpecialOperators Author:Eric Balfour
“It's a weird partnership. For me and Patrick, if you've met him, we're not very much alike. But we bring such different tools to the table. He doesn't think like me. I don't think like him. He thinks like an editor. He thinks like a director. He thinks completely outside of the box when it comes to writing and so because of that he leads me down roads that I would've never gone down. And he sucks at grammar. So together we're perfect.” IfsThinkingWritingDifferentTogetherPerfectGoneMetsDirectorsToolsDown AndTablesBoxesLike MeEditorsPartnershipGrammarDown The RoadLeading Me Author:Todd Farmer