Quotes about american-director
american-director available couple
He said he wanted me to play a part, and he's done that a couple of times before but I haven't been available because I was making my own pictures. Mark Rydell
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His music was direct from his heart and brain in the purest form possible. Joshua Logan
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We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardner's contemporary retelling. If you bring it into today, we really feel that it has something very fresh to say now. Julie Taymor
american-director catch dreams
Hollywood has always been a cage... a cage to catch our dreams. John Huston
american-director fills fourteen looking
When they see those fourteen lights, they're looking at a miracle. And deep down, they feel that whatever's going to happen, there will be someone there to help them. And that fills them with hope. M. Night Shyamalan
american-director directing examining method opposed round technique woody work
Well you know, Woody doesn't rehearse, as opposed to my own method of directing where I really work with actors around a round table for weeks, examining the values of the material, so his technique is very different.
american-director idyllic sort
I think when I started in the business, when I had my first aspirations of being in the business, I sort of pictured an idyllic life. John Milius
american-director week
I think, after about a week in, I started to get really down. I would feel better when I would eat. Morgan Spurlock
american-director borderline everybody magical screen sure
He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magical screen presence, you couldn't keep your eyes off him, but he was paranoid. He was sure everybody was out to get him.
american-director bounds caught dead defeat profound until
I would be going until I went over the bounds of reality and was then caught up in a profound wish to be dead without having to go through the shaming defeat of suicide.
american-director lived pictures places terrible
It's a terrible thing to say I know. I've only done what I wanted to do. It's a real luxury. I only made the pictures I wanted to make and lived in the places I've wanted to live. I'm very, very happy.
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Once I make a picture, I never look at it again.
american-director kindness mgm missed people studio worked
When you worked in a studio it was the studio system that you kind of missed because it was a big, big family. I mean MGM had 5,000 people working a day there. You miss it.
american-director man school silent time tom worked
I've had 79 to 80 years of show business. I started when I was 5 with a man called Tom Mix. I didn't have time to go to school because I was in silent movies, I was in radio, I was in burlesque, I worked with the circus. I'm all show business!
american-director major people worked
One of the people that became a major source was Clarence Tripp who worked with Kinsey. Bill Condon
american-director desire fit question sexuality specific tension
The real question is the tension between everyone's specific sexuality and the desire to belong, to fit in, to feel like a part of the group.
american-director fortunate icon memories worked
There are a lot of memories that are very... nutritious. I've had a very fortunate career. I've worked with practically every icon you can think of.
american-director relationship
Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything. Elia Kazan
american-director life months six stay
You've got to keep fighting - you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.
american-director brando heard machine walk
The thing about Brando was that I'd make these directions, and he'd walk away. He'd heard enough... to get the machine going.
american-director both job men
If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless. Darryl F. Zanuck
american-director final hope instincts people please prove trust wrong
You just have to trust your instincts and hope that if someone doesn't like your idea, you can prove them wrong in the final process. In the end, you can please some of the people some of the time, but that's about all you can do. Bryan Singer
american-director call complexity deserve deserves evil prevent respect understand
What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it.
american-director atmosphere audience loose odd register somehow
It's those moments, those odd moments that you look for and sometimes by creating this kind of loose atmosphere you find those little moments that somehow mean a lot to an audience when they really register right. Barry Levinson
american-director apparently brooks cheap figured fit guy high movies nobody oh schedule school silly terms work
Apparently nobody really read it, it was a cheap movie, it fit their schedule in terms of things so fine, let the guy make that high school comedy. I used to work with Mel Brooks so they figured oh it's going to be one of those really silly movies and that's how it got made.
american-director rarely
I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because people's lives don't have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying.
american-director loved movies strangest
Actually, I loved Chucky. It's one of the strangest movies I've ever seen.
american-director foremost
While that wasn't first and foremost in my mind, you can't get into this without being struck, on one side, by how far we've come, and then the other side, by how little things have changed.
american-director funny life seventy showing success
Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. Woody Allen
american-director beverly throw
In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.
american-director answer everybody feed government guy military sort trying
The simple answer is I'd just be a guy trying to feed my family, like everybody else. The complicated answer is, I think I'd be in some sort of military or government world of some sort. Antoine Fuqua
american-director people seriously
I take them seriously but I try not to read them. I take them personally, that's why I don't read them. I think people are lying when they say they don't care, that's not true. I take them personally.
american-director movies reminds
But I like to go to movies with my son because it's still fun; it reminds me of why I make movies.