Quotes about american-director
american-director glass
There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water? M. Night Shyamalan
american-director came comic filled notebook script thinking
We started out thinking of this as a comic book. We filled notebook after notebook with ideas. That's where the script came from. Andy Wachowski
american-director dad loved mom movies three
We've always loved going to the movies. Our mom and dad are big movie fans. They'd take us on these movie orgys where we'd see sometimes three movies in a day.
american-director fun generally giving good men roles script
We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get.
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When we do a movie with the studios, they wouldn't be asking us to do it, I don't think, if it was a movie they wanted to get into themselves. What you see is what you get with us, so they let us do what we want to do. Joel Coen
american-director bug
When we did Wayne's World, it was 14 million dollars and they didn't bug us too much because they just thought it was some little movie that nobody was ever going to see. We showed them. Penelope Spheeris
american-director matter perceived subject
What's not perceived to be an A movie anymore, is often subject matter that would have been thought of as a B movie many years ago. Walter Hill
american-director director gas imagine listen sit sitting
Usually, I don't want to sit down and listen to the director gas on about his movie. I just can't actually imagine myself sitting down and having that much to say.
american-director convinced walk
Working with Christopher, he convinced me he could fly, and he's convinced me he's going to walk again. Richard Donner
american-director potent
We feel that Grendel is very, very potent as to where we are today, which may not be any different than where we were in the 10th Century. Julie Taymor
american-director felt
With The Omen, I really felt I wasn't in control. It was panic.
american-director bodies heal hearts land men time wales weep wept women wounds
Wales is an old land with wounds that weep in hills. They wept before in the bodies of men and in the hearts of women and time will never heal them.
american-director knowing million opening pearl pressure spent weekend
Like a Pearl Harbor, they're going into their opening weekend knowing that they spent $110 million making this movie. That pressure must be enormous. Ted Demme
american-director decision owned
Make every decision as if you owned the whole company. Robert Townsend
american-director wars
'm a general, I do something. I go out and fight wars and win them. John Milius
american-director people
No one is out to get you. It's just that... people are monkeys. Stan Brakhage
american-director amount constantly country system tension tremendous
Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding. Kathryn Bigelow
american-director ongoing purge urge
The urge to purge the material I come up with is, I guess, an ongoing process.
american-director choice nervous olivia pull whether
Olivia Newton-John was our first choice to play Sandy, but she was nervous about acting, whether she would feel comfortable with us and could pull it off at all. Randal Kleiser
american-director
Sitting in this chair, my recommendation would carry too much weight.
american-director companies people treated
Most people in big companies are administered, not led. They are treated as personnel, not people.
american-director control developed produce produced smaller stuff trying
That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films.
american-director films
There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
american-director expensive filmmakers films larger pressure start studios word
I think, on a larger note, that filmmakers and studios should start to tuck it in a little bit, because films wouldn't have the pressure they have if the word wasn't out about how expensive they were.
american-director became eight names
When it was narrowed down to eight names and I was called down for an interview, then it became more serious. Things went very fast.
american-director came hopes neither released widely
I think the other misconceptions when the film came out, he was very upset that it was so widely released and so widely seen. And neither one of us - well, I think I had hopes it would be, 'cause I really did think it was something special. Terry Zwigoff
american-director david gets literally presenter whereas worked
Whereas my producer literally worked on this thing for 10 years and because I gave that presenter credit to David Lynch, she to this day never gets credit. It really kills me.
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Los Angeles has always been on the table with us.
american-director good ideas limited time
Many ideas are good for a limited time - not forever.
american-director felt full
Many times I felt like I'd do better than what the director did, but some of them got a little discouraged because they didn't have full charge of making the film, and sometimes there'd be battles of egos. Ray Harryhausen
american-director call charles max robert
So I told Robert from the start that if we couldn't get Charles and Max to take part, but especially Charles, that I didn't want to make the film. So would he call his mother and talk to Charles and see if Charles would at all be interested.
american-director bought bunch editing money moved saving super
So I was saving up my money and bought a Super 8 camera, projector, some editing equipment, a bunch of film stock, and moved to Austin. Richard Linklater
american-director ask crew hit hugh note seen
If you ask any person on this crew what they think of Hugh Jackman they'll admit they've never seen anything like it. I'll give him an emotional note and he'll hit it every time. Darren Aronofsky