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The more prepared I am, the more I'll be in control, less nervous, less stressed and more focused.


Marilu Henner
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The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.
Tom Clancy
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Originally a record producer more or less hired a bunch of professionals to participate in a recording session, the performers and the technicians, and a music director was put in charge. That directly related to a film producer's job.
Tony Visconti
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The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer.
Kyle MacLachlan
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All the director wants is their idea of the movie to be believed in.


Mark Romanek
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Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.
Martin Seligman
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I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.
Yann Tiersen
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I always choose my movie because of a director and a story and a, a character.


Melanie Laurent
Wherever we are, any time of night or day, our bosses, junk-mailers, our parents can get to us. Sociologists have actually found that in recent years Americans are working fewer hours than 50 years ago, but we feel as if we're working more. We have more and more time-saving devices, but sometimes, it seems, less and less time.
Pico Iyer
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Ultimately when I throw myself behind a movie, I have to really believe in that director's vision.


Christine Vachon
I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.
Matt Damon
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I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.


Marilyn Monroe
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The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie.
John Frankenheimer
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.


Famke Janssen
If you create a movie that is only character driven, with a weak plot, then you - as a director, you have to make sure you keep pushing the tempo.
Daniel Espinosa
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Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.
Scott Caan
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How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.
Daniel Day-Lewis
When I was younger, I looked at getting older as this process of getting less interested in things and becoming colder, and of finding less joy in the mystery of things. And I've found the exact opposite to be true. I find that I'm getting warmer, and that I'm more mystified by human interactions.
Jon Brion
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I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you'd come up with something exponentially better.
Tony Goldwyn
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As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me. Then when you see a film later, it can be infuriating, really disappointing. I've been very lucky, though, and so many of my early experiences were great.
Ebon Moss-Bachrach
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