The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.
quote by Satyajit Ray
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Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position.
quote by Gary Oldman
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First Encounter - Yasmin Ahmad
the first and the last
at long last
best director at home
Malaysia Film Festival awards for Best Director (2009) Talentime. Her first and last for best director from the Malaysian premier film festival. was there at Putra World Trade Centre for the ceremony. She was clad in a yellow ensemble.
poem by John Tiong Chunghoo
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If it's stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it's film, THE most important person is the director. The director says where the camera goes.
quote by Brad Dourif
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The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.
quote by Sergei Eisenstein
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The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.
quote by Shirley Knight
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So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses.
quote by Danny Elfman
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The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has.
quote by Francois Truffaut
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I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan.
quote by Donnie Yen
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Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer.
quote by Spike Lee
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The challenge to me as a director was for the audience to see the film as going on in a straight line, so that they did not sense all of these break-ups. I did not want a film to be a collage of all these images.
quote by Pedro Almodovar
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This is indeed not only relevant to Documentary but is evident is most type of film making. The film often mirrors the experience, understanding and politics of the director.
quote by Ben Edwards
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The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money.
quote by Tom Hooper
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My musical director, Mark Cherry, is the most wonderful person who ever lived on God's good green Earth. He's my director, he does the arrangements. Really, he does everything - including certain janitorial chores!
quote by Brett Somers
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My guess is that if they now choose to change of director for every other film, it's just because you can't really change the formula, you can merely try to film it your way.
quote by Guy Hamilton
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The director is planning on titling the film 'Yummy Fur' so we are probably planning on changing the title of the book to 'Yummy Fur' to match the film.
quote by Chester Brown
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Sometimes a director is making three films. Perhaps he is shooting a film in Madras and a film in Bombay and he can't leave Madras as some shooting has to be done, so he directs by telephone. The shooting takes place. On schedule.
quote by Satyajit Ray
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It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later.
quote by Antoine Fuqua
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Being a film director in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan.
quote by Pedro Almodovar
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If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
quote by Patrice Leconte
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When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.
quote by Kathryn Bigelow
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