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Your life is a movie. You are the main character. You say your scripts and act to your lines. Of course you do your lines in each scene. There is a hidden camera and a director who you can ask for help anytime up above.Diana Rose Morcilla
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Your life experience is a moving picture, of which you are writer, director, performer, producer and critic.T.F. Hodge
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In some cases, you can tell how somebody is being treated by their own boss from the way they are treating someone to whom they are a boss.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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If you want to be a good actor or director, firstly see life, secondly see films and thirdly read books!Md. Ziaul Haque
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I’ve never liked the term ‘actor’.” Barron spoke slowly, joining hands with the cast members to his left and right. The rest of them formed a circle, also holding hands, and he continued. “Seriously now, is anyone here ‘acting’? Is anyone here pretending? “Me, I’m a theater director. One hundred percent, all the time. I’m not pretending, or acting, or trying to fool anyone. This is what I do, and I give it my all–just like you. I look around me, and I don’t see a single phony. I see people who give their hearts, their minds, and their very lives to being serious performers on the stage. In the last weeks I’ve watched every one of you give up the easy life to come here and bust a gut to make this show a reality. “That’s why I call you performers. Not actors–performers. Because when it’s time to prepare, you work out every nuance of a role. When it’s time to step in front of the crowd, you reach out and pull them in with both hands. When it’s time to say your lines, you deliver them with skill and meaning. That’s performance. And there’s nothing phony about that. There’s nothing pretend about that. There’s no acting that will take the place of that. “And so that’s my wish for you tonight: Have a great performance. You’ve done the work, you’re ready, and now it’s time to show off. Have fun out there, gang. Perform.” --Jerome Barron's opening night pep talk to the cast of Death Troupe.Vincent H. ONeil
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I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it.David Lynch
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A great director gives life to a work of art- gives it a heartbeat… a pulse… opens its eyes to the world.A.D. Posey
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A Writer is Actor, Creator, Director & Producer Of HIS Life. Ask ME anything.Nirav Sanchaniya
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.. Genesis 18 calls fathers to direct their children to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just. Being a parent means working in God's behalf to provide direction for your children. Directors are in charge. It involves knowing and helping them to understand God's standard for children's behavior. It means teaching them that they are sinners by nature. It includes pointing them to the mercy and grace of God shown in Christ's life and death for sinners. .Tedd Tripp
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One of the common themes you will read in interview after interview is the call to keep fighting for your vision. This is a message to women directors, producers, writers–anyone who wants to work in the business. Your voice counts. Your vision matters.Melissa Silverstein
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Let God direct your steps. The main reason why many steps fail is that people know God is an expert in directing steps, but they don’t want to give him the contract.Israelmore Ayivor
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Nowadays films and television are what I like to call "Microwave Media". I like mine in the oven, giving the production time to simmer; get the juices flowing, and cooked to perfection. And that takes time. Slow, precious, tempered time. A script is a film's recipe. It's just a piece of paper to the novice cook, but even a recipe needs time to be perfected before it's given to the masses.Solange Nicole
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Life is a movie. You are the director in it. The choices you make, are the things that you will see. After you make a choice, there will be no going back, only simple things that will erase it.Victoriya Anissimova
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If you want to be a writer, then write.I. Marlene King
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If we really exist merely to fulfill God’s plan: then life is a television drama; with God being the scriptwriter, the director, and, the audience.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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I had a dream about you. We were actors in a horror movie and I was hunting you down with a knife. When I finally cornered you the director yelled "Cut".... What? I can't be blamed for following instructions.Georgia Saratsioti
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He overheard the director talking to one of the cameramen. The cameraman was explaining that he couldn’t get a good long shot on the exterior because someone had set up a fake graveyard right in the plaza.“ Kids just playing around, I guess, but it’s morbid; we’ll have to get rid of it, maybe bring in some sod to–”“ No, ” Albert said.“ We’re almost ready for you, ” the director assured him.“ That’s not a fake graveyard. Those aren’t fake graves. No one was playing around.”“ You’re saying those . . those are actually .”“What do you think happened here?” Albert asked in a soft voice. “What do you think this was?” Absurdly, embarrassingly, he had started to cry. “Those are kids buried there. Some of them were torn apart, you know. By coyotes. By . by bad people. Shot. Crushed. Like that. Some of those kids in the ground there couldn’t take it, the hunger and the fear . some of those kids out there had to be cut down from the ropes they used to hang themselves. Early on, when we still had any animals? I had a crew go out and hunt down cats. Cats and dogs and rats. Kill them. Other kids to skin them . cook them up.” There were a dozen crew people in the McDonald’s. None spoke or moved. Albert brushed away tears and sighed. “Yeah. So don’t mess with the graves. Okay? Other than that, we’re good to go. .Michael Grant
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I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.Alfred Hitchcock
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An actor is just a part of a movie, but director - he is the movie.Amit Kalantri
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A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.Billy Wilder
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Kenji Mizoguchi is to the cinema what Bach is to music, Cervantes is to literature, Shakespeare is to theatre, Titian is to painting: the very greatest.Jean Douchet
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The director respects what they've hired you for and chosen you for: to do the part and respect what you're doing.Robert De Niro
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Frank Capra's grandson was a second Assistant Director on 'Christmas Vacation.'Chevy Chase
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I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.J. K. Simmons
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That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.Ray Harryhausen
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I couldn't be a director because I couldn't put up with the actors. I don't have the patience. Why, I'd probably kill the actors. Not to mention some of the beautiful actresses.Spencer Tracy
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The senior director at the NSC for the Middle East is retired Col. Derek Harvey, an Arabic-speaking intelligence officer with a Ph.D. who served as the head of the U.S. military cell examining the insurgency in Iraq in 2003.Peter Bergen
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George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go.Richard Perle
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The thing is that when you are a director, you need to be involved in a lot of different fields. You must be a psychologist, an architecture expert; you must be a choreographer.Denis Villeneuve
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I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.Charlie Rose
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And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.Nicolas Roeg
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Mark Ruffalo is just an amazing guy and an amazing director.Orlando Bloom
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I think Polanski's an amazing director.David Duchovny
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You can't be minimalist as a director until you have acquired the experience and confidence to say no.Richard Eyre
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A leadership culture is one where everyone thinks like an owner, a CEO or a managing director. It's one where everyone is entrepreneurial and proactive.Robin S. Sharma
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A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator.Steven Berkoff
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I love movies where you can sense that the director risked biting off more than they can chew.Damien Chazelle
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I don't like being pigeonholed at all. It stemmed from after 'Mandy Lane': I was being offered all these horror movies. I love horror movies, but when I dreamed of being a director, it was always doing all sorts of things.Jonathan Levine
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I found it to be more challenging to be in a huge effects movie, because a lot of the things aren't there. You have to trust the director and react to nothing.Katie Holmes
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Actors need to trust themselves. If you trust yourself, you can trust others and leave the director outside.Martin Landau
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If I feel insecure, then I am in the wrong profession. I have to trust my director and the material he has given me.Arjun Kapoor
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They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.Toby Jones
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My mom and dad were actors when they were younger and had a horrible experience of it. My dad became a literary agent and my mom a casting director.Daniel Radcliffe
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I've always wanted to write movies - I always used to tell my mom that I wanted to be a director.R. Kelly
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A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.James Allen
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It's a very tricky relationship, the cinematographer and the director as a woman.Patricia Riggen
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Trying to make something as tricky as 'Room' really believable is extremely hard, and it largely rests with that relationship between the actors and the director, and the director and the crew.Lenny Abrahamson