When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.
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The process of making a movie has expanded in terms of effort and time for the director, doing commentaries for the DVD for example, finishing deleted scenes so they could be on the DVD, and doing things like a web blog.
quote by David Cronenberg
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I think you've got to talk to the director, see the director's films and recognise that it's important that the work fits right in and see if as part of the movie.
quote by Dennis Muren
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I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer.
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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We're producing a movie now, 'The Onion' Movie, and it's very difficult for me to be on the set. If I'm not right in the trenches, it's very difficult for me to watch another director, because I'm not involved and it's not exciting.
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If you have a script that's not great, if you have a great director, you can make a great movie, but if you have a great script with a director who's not good, never are you going to have a good movie.
quote by Monica Bellucci
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To me the only real star of the movie is the writer. And I work with writers very closely, from outline to first draft and on to the seventh draft, whatever it takes. Then my job is to support the director to make the best movie we can. Some producers try to go past them, but my job is to support them.
quote by Dino De Laurentiis
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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.
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A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.
quote by Frank Darabont
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On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all.
quote by Griffin Dunne
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Last summer when we were preparing for the movie, I actually kind of wanted to stay fairly uninformed about it. As we went through the process that we do in the movie, I wanted to be a little wide-eyed.
quote by Thomas Haden Church
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Usually, I don't want to sit down and listen to the director gas on about his movie. I just can't actually imagine myself sitting down and having that much to say.
Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.
quote by Scott Caan
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I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has.
quote by John Frankenheimer
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How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.
quote by Daniel Day-Lewis
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Bernardo Bertolucci is more of a gangster than a movie director. He's one of my enemies.
quote by Maria Schneider
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In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum.
quote by John Carpenter
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If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
quote by Michael Caine
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In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
quote by Viggo Mortensen
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I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.
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