Quotes about american-director
american-director great worked
I worked for a lot of great directors. Richard Donner
american-director commercial
I was very lucky. I started my own commercial company.
american-director limited
I was very limited in what I could do with flying saucers, because they're just a metal disc. I had to try and put character in as if they were intelligently guided. Ray Harryhausen
american-director capable people
I think people are capable of everything I've written. Would they ever do it? I don't know and really don't care, because that's not my business. Neil LaBute
american-director form francis half pick
I think Francis at half form is better than anybody else by 50%, you know? I think it's just that he has never... he has a late pick of the things that are ambitious enough for him. John Milius
american-director maybe telling terms understanding
Maybe our telling of the story wasn't as clear as it should have been, but I don't think that's true. In terms of understanding the story, it comes across. Joel Coen
american-director job rest work year
I went into this job to do plays, but that's here for 10 weeks, and the rest of the year I do a lot of other things-the administrative work of planning, reading plays.
american-director farther hundred nourished poems poetry
Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers. James Broughton
american-director benefit leadership true
True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders. Robert Townsend
american-director bucks hit million relatively
Yeah, there's absolutely. I mean, remember when The Searchers came out, it was a relatively big hit for a Western, and I think it made 5 million bucks - I don't even think it made that.
american-director prove strangest
Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point. Richard Linklater
american-director financed trying
I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing.
american-director
I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors.
american-director children common running
In other countries, it's a common thing to have outcast children running around the streets in packs, and I don't think we're so far away from it here. Penelope Spheeris
american-director
It is the idea that it's a movie in a movie. So I did it.
american-director literally rabid
Rabid fans were literally jumping into the camera.
american-director became degree lasted popular time truth
Yeah, I think that's it... It's like Jesse James. He became really popular because he lasted so long. You know, there is some degree of truth to the fact that time will dignify anything, too.
american-director
I was never restricted. I was never told what to do.
american-director attribute executives forgotten good people simple
Most of the good executives do pretty well. Because to be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.
american-director
The American public does not know poets exist.
american-director archeology history medieval mesmerized period somebody student
I was mesmerized by what it would be like for somebody who was a student of history and archeology to go back to a medieval period and really live it.
american-director mean
When I was 50, I said, 'That's it,' And they said, 'How?' I said, 'What do you mean how? I've been working now for 50 years now.'
american-director digital evil images point remember view
Remember that the film is about the digital domain. From the point of view of the scenario, images are evil demons, if I can be so bold. Godfrey Reggio
american-director committed finish gonna people stuff tired
I think I'm gonna finish up the stuff I've already committed to and then take a little break, 'cuz I just don't want people to get tired of me. Kevin Smith
american-director people
We think people will really like what we've done and will want to incorporate it into their campaigns, but they shouldn't feel that they have to. Sam Wood
american-director recognized respect source utmost
We went into this with the utmost respect for the source material, but we recognized the need for change.
american-director handmade release releasing trying
Now having said that, I realize that releasing a film in the real world is like trying to get General Motors to release a handmade car.
american-director cared city less policemen produced
We couldn't have cared less about the government, especially the city government, which produced policemen who did nothing but take graft. Martin Scorsese
american-director cuts few four love special
The Lethals were never done as a special edition, but that's still a few years away. I'd love to do director's cuts of all four of them.
american-director came nor
Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where. Omar Khayyam
american-director directors loved seen
The directors I would have loved to have seen were Kurosawa or Leone - I would have loved being on their set to see how they worked. Antoine Fuqua
american-director case director except teller telling tells
The director is the teller of the film, the director tells the movie, like you would tell a story, except in this case you're telling a movie. Sydney Pollack
american-director costs cultural million
A movie that costs only $1.6 million doesn't have to be a cultural event to turn a profit. Steven Soderbergh