#director

Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can't learn what's right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you. ↗

— Dino De Laurentiis

#actor #comes #director #himself #how

If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director. ↗

— Patrice Leconte

#director #film #freedom #gives #very

I was too dumb to know Opie was going to grow up to be a great Director, if so, boy, I would certainly have become his best friend. ↗

— George Lindsey

#best #best friend #boy #certainly #director

One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#collaborating #components #directors #film #filmmakers

The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it. ↗

— Frances McDormand

#fact #i #may #sleeping #something

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#am #direct #director #films #found

We make a contract within ourselves as actors or directors or writers about how much of ourselves we let into projects. You can actually figure out before you work on something how much blood you will have to let emotionally. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#actually #before #blood #contract #directors

If Martin Scorsese calls, I am available. And then there the ones, well, you can just run down the list - any of those Oscar-nominated films, they have amazing directors across the board. ↗

— Timothy Olyphant

#am #amazing #any #available #board

I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer. ↗

— Mandy Patinkin

#between #board #closer #create #directors

Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything. ↗

— Molly Parker

#bad #control #directors #everything #feeling