I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well.
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My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and shoot it in such a way that it will cut together. And how to design the style and tone.
The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.
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It was a fun film. I had a great time doing it. I was looking for a role just like that for my first movie role. I didn't want to have a starring role, because I wanted a chance to learn. I didn't want the whole thing riding on me.
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I mean, this whole digital revolution is really eroding the director's importance on a movie because, number one, just from a practical standpoint, with floppy disks and the ability to put all of the film onto a disk, more people have access to the movie.
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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.
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Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.
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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.
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People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite.
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Star Trek is perhaps the best thing that ever happened to me, in a career sense.
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I've never actually seen a Star Trek, but I have seen an Alien movie.
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We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.
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I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.
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There are several books that I have-the Physics of Star Trek, Star Trek and Business, there are manuals on command style and countless scholarly papers that have been written about the significance of Next Generation.
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A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.
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I certainly wanted to maintain some sense of mystery about Picard and that's why we never allowed certain situations to fully evolve, like the relationship between Picard and Beverly Crusher.
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An old promise of my friend
One of my friends a documentary film maker
Who promised me to give a role in his latest film.
The saga of an uprooted family live in a remote village
And I am their great grand father.
My photograph with a lame horse was hanged on the wall
That remained in the entire film.
At the end of the movie,
The camera focused on me a close up
And they found tears in my eyes.
I was the nominee for the best supporting actor.
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I've come to understand my role. On some level, I provide the context for them to shine. I also know my role is the steward of the songs, and the center point, the artist that the stuff all revolves around. But I really try to honor that.
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But I just felt at one point that I was on a hamster wheel, you know? Just doing movie after movie and thinking so much about career related things and I think missing out on hanging with my friends and family as much I needed to.
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I became a better listener than I ever had been as a result of playing Jean Luc Picard because it was one of the things that he does terrifically well.
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A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.
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