Filmmaking is a completely imperfect art form that takes years and, over those years, the movie tells you what it is. Mistakes… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
With 28 million children eating lunch at school every day in the United States, I believe government has an obligation to ensure… — Rosa DeLauro Copy Share Image
The Nazis, for him, are merely available movie tropes--articulate monsters with a talent for sadism. By making the Americans cruel, too, he… — David Denby Copy Share Image
I saw 'Alien' when I was 8 years old. To me, it was like a combination of Jaws and Star Wars, and… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
He [Mark Webb] is very savvy, technically, he's shot so many videos, he knows how to get what he wants. The surprise,… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
Increasingly, there's much better material on television, but there's not always the time and money to make it, so you've got to… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
Director Gary Ross has created an adaptation that is faithful in both narrative and theme, but he's also brought a rich and… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
What I like about being an actress is that it keeps you feminine. Being a director and producer makes you manly and… — Bai Ling Copy Share Image
Favourite directors change, like favorite authors. I had a passion for Gide and Stein and Faulkner. But now they're no use to… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
The work is the work. The work is not me. I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films. Even… — Frank Ocean Copy Share Image
The thing is this: I've got an amazing career in England that couldn't possibly get much better. I do the best theater… — Lesley Manville Copy Share Image
I am a director because I believe in my own impulses and my own point of view, and that belief encourages me… — Anna D. Shapiro Copy Share Image
Sometimes I take the watch, or I take the shoes, but usually the souvenir is to take the life you had with… — Jean Reno Copy Share Image
When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes. — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
As a film director I like to have the actors create their own close-ups. It's an older style of filmmaking. — Stanley Tucci Copy Share Image
Most development doesn't make it to series. So you want the writer and director to have a really good experience with development… — Sue Naegle Copy Share Image
What I look for in a script is something that challenges me, something that breaks new ground, something that allows me to… — Michael Bay Copy Share Image
The main reason for choosing a project is not really the renown of the director that's making the project. I feel like… — Song Kang-Ho Copy Share Image
Lyrical lecture, word architecture, Rap director, the best in my sector. Microphone cool chief, releasin the smooth speech... I get nasty with… — Lord Finesse Copy Share Image
I always think that the writer is doing the vast majority of the director's work, in a sense. If you're a writer… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
I've always believed that the director does whatever the hell he wants. That's what you sign on for as an actor -… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
The director’s task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
When a sound can replace an image, cut the image or neutralize it. The ear goes more towards the within, the eye… — Robert Bresson Copy Share Image
I'm really, really happy with what I do for a living. I mean, that's what I consider work, like being on set,… — Gabourey Sidibe Copy Share Image
In the age of activism that is clearly not going away, it would seem that some form of engagement from directors with… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
A director is a man, therefore he has ideas; he is also an artist, therefore he has imagination. Whether they are good… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
I love watching audiences scream. I imagine it's the same joy that a director feels who has made a comedy when he… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
Snow Cake is a lovely film. Really proud of that. We shot it in 21 days. I thought Sigourney was amazing in… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
I'm not a famous director yet, and I'm not into fame. I like to just work. As a director, as an actor,… — Tommy Wiseau Copy Share Image
The attitude of the director is really important, in terms of setting tone. — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
As an actor, most of the time, you only have so much say in how, what and where things go. As a… — Eric Balfour Copy Share Image
A lot of directors in my experience are very receptive. They see what you do first, and then they want to find… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
So many directors say nothing beautifully, and so many others say great and profound things but have no idea how to read… — George Cukor Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of directors I want to work with and all kinds of films that I want to do. — Boyd Holbrook Copy Share Image
In general, we like to shoot Breaking Bad like a modern day Western, and Sergio Leone is one of my all-time favorite… — Michelle MacLaren Copy Share Image
I remember in the Carpenter version, you got acquainted with the characters and really knew them. It was a real character piece.… — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Copy Share Image
I don't really care where I work, actually, because you know making a movie is like living in movie world. There's such… — Franka Potente Copy Share Image
[Director Christopher] Nolan has not only crafted the best Batman movie, but arguably the second-best motion picture superhero narrative (topped only by… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, they're storytellers because they're directing where… — Dennis Quaid Copy Share Image
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