director

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.

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

An actor is just a part of a movie, but director - he is the movie.

I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.

[In the case of research director, Willis R. Whitney, whose style was to give talented investigators as much freedom as possible, you may define 'serendipity' as] the art of profiting from unexpected occurrences. When you do things in that way you get unexpected results. Then you do something else and you get unexpected results in another line, and you do that on a third line and then all of a sudden you see that one of these lines has something to do with the other. Then you make a discovery that you never could have made by going on a direct road.

He overheard the director talking to one of the cameramen. The cameraman was explaining that he couldn__ get a good long shot on the exterior because someone had set up a fake graveyard right in the plaza.__ids just playing around, I guess, but it__ morbid; we__l have to get rid of it, maybe bring in some sod to____o,_ Albert said.__e__e almost ready for you,_ the director assured him.__hat__ not a fake graveyard. Those aren__ fake graves. No one was playing around.___ou__e saying those . . . those are actually . . .___hat do you think happened here?_ Albert asked in a soft voice. __hat do you think this was?_ Absurdly, embarrassingly, he had started to cry. __hose 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__ 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.__here were a dozen crew people in the McDonald__. None spoke or moved.Albert brushed away tears and sighed. __eah. So don__ mess with the graves. Okay? Other than that, we__e good to go.

I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.

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.

If we really exist merely to fulfill God__ plan: then life is a television drama; with God being the scriptwriter, the director, and, the audience.

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.

Your life experience is a moving picture, of which you are writer, director, performer, producer and critic.

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.

Of course, you could, no doubt, call my going to film school the biggest mistake I ever made.

If you want to be a writer, then write.

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.

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.