#director

If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

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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. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

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How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand. ↗

— Gary Oldman

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I think Van Sant is the most important American director we have. He takes the most risks. He's just pure to me. ↗

— Michael Pitt

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All these directors who do different locations forget that one room can be shot from a million different angles and a million different ways. When I direct a movie, I'm going to use that. ↗

— Michael Pitt

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European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films. ↗

— Charlotte Rampling

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A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again. ↗

— Jean Renoir

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A film is a director's vision... there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have. ↗

— Natasha Richardson

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It all has to do with the director, the captain of the ship. He sets the pace, the mood. If the director is quiet, the set is quiet. If the director is loud, then everybody has to be louder to be heard. ↗

— Eva Marie Saint

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Every actress has a line she'll draw, where she'll say, 'This I will do and this I won't.' For me, everything has to be important to the story and the director has to be able to tell me why. ↗

— Sheryl Lee

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