#director

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. ↗

— Danny Elfman

#around #ball #ball game #becomes #composer

You have to nail the right tone because sometimes when you just see his films cold, you're not quite sure. It's the same in - I'm trying to think of other directors with a similar sense - David Lynch's films, Tim's films, some of Cronenberg's stuff. ↗

— Danny Elfman

#cold #cronenberg #david #directors #films

I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that. ↗

— Olafur Eliasson

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I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house. ↗

— Eric Bogosian

#build #designers #director #house #i

I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can out of the text they're working with. ↗

— Michael Emerson

#director #get #go #help #i

It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors. ↗

— Omar Epps

#any #directing #director #how #into

I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew. ↗

— John Boorman

#crew #director #had #i #japan

A lot of directors are great and they are fine but you know I think that Harry really takes a special point to really engage the actors and really make it feel like a safe place for them to explore whatever it is they want to explore in whatever scene with their character. ↗

— Will Estes

#directors #engage #explore #feel #fine

I had a director who told me a story about a fan who had commented on how nice it was to see her sister laughing and how happy the show made her. I like to make people happy and make them laugh. ↗

— Will Estes

#commented #director #fan #had #happy

From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing. ↗

— Joe Eszterhas

#director #gut #heart #lost #makes