“My strangest auditioning experience was when I was reading for a TV show, and right when I started the audition, the casting director left the room and yelled at me from the hallway to keep reading.” ShowsReadingLeftRoomsTvsDirectorsTv ShowsAuditionsCastingHallwaysCasting Directors Author:Danny Strong
“The best compliment I ever got from the public or producers or directors is that I just totally blend in and become the character and they don't notice me and that the play happens or the movie happens or the TV show happens.” PlayCharacterShowsHappensTvsDirectorsProducersTv ShowsComplementNotice Me Author:J.K. Simmons
“When you can sit down with a plain sheet of paper in front of you and make some notes, and, little by little, you see it take shape and become a concept for a movie or a TV show. That's a real thrill. You watch it go from notes on a paper to a meeting with writers and directors and actors. I can't think of anything that's more exciting.” ThinkingLittlesI CanRealShowsActorsWatchesFrontsTvsShapesDirectorsPaperConceptsExcitingMeetingsNotesTv ShowsThrillSheets Author:Stan Lee
“Every time I see a film or TV show, I think about how that composer made those choices and how that director envisioned music and how that could work onstage or in a film and how you could support that even further by putting lyrics to it.” ThinkingMadeShowsFilmChoicesSupportTvsDirectorsComposerTv Shows Author:Robert Lopez
“I'm a character-driven director, and I tend to fall in love with the characters in my movies and TV shows.” CharacterShowsFallTvsDirectorsFalling In LoveDrivenTv Shows Author:Doug Liman
“The headmistress was a very well-respected theater teacher. She taught me what stage left and stage right were, what a director was, and what all these things meant, which was something I had no concept of. She sent me off to drama school, at age 18, and I stayed there for three years. Before I knew it, I was working on a TV show.” YearsWellsShowsAgeSchoolThreeLeftTeacherStageTaughtTvsDramaDirectorsConceptsTheaterThree YearsTv ShowsHeadmistress Author:Robert Kazinsky
“Sometimes directors get hired into TV shows, and it's so formulaic and they're a slave to whatever everybody wants them to do. But everyone came in with their own style, and it blended together with the Helix style that was set, and at the same time, they're bringing their own ideas and their own input. It was really fun working with all of them.” WantIdeasSometimesShowsTogetherFunStyleTvsDirectorsSlaveTv ShowsInput Author:Kyra Zagorsky
“TV and film are very different media with different requirements. In a TV show, you have actors and fellow writers and directors, who are interpreting your work. With a novel, you only have ink, words and your reader.” DifferentShowsFilmActorsNovelMediaTvsReaderDirectorsFellowsTv ShowsRequirementsInkInterpreting Author:Howard Gordon
“And so as a director, as a leader, and myself as a director and a leader, I kind of try to make sure that we hold onto the vision and kind of corral it, but by the time you finish whatever the project is, a TV show, a series, a movie, a stage show, it should be a product of what all those people can do, and therefore, it can never be what you imagined it would be in the beginning.” PeopleShouldTryingKindShowsWould BeCan DoLeaderVisionStageTvsProductsDirectorsProjectsSeriesTv Shows Author:Brian Henson