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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.

Hired Intense Method Force
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I'm not in a position where I get to pick and choose roles. I usually go on auditions in long lines and embarrass myself in front of casting directors, and with a lump in my throat and my ears burning, I walk past reception and smirking actors as I go to the parking garage and go back on the highway.

Actors Parking Garage Highway
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I think TV is much more the writer's medium and film is about the director and their vision and how you can collaborate with them and see that through to the end. They are so different.

Think Tv More Writer
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The writer must be a participant in the scene... like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work, and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least the main character.

Action Camera Character Director
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My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

Actor Director Going He
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Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.

Director Even Extremely Fate
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.

Been Cannes Director Female
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I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.

American Could Directors Discrimination
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I've done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.

Done Auditions Where Casting
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Every relationship should eventually become a long-term relationship. Any director that I meet now isn't just a director. He's potentially a friend, and someone I can call to do a project that I want or that I have.

Every Relationship Should Eventually
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It's very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.

Very Rare That Get
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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me. So when David Fincher comes along and wants to direct 'The Social Network,' when Bennett Miller comes along and wants to direct 'Moneyball,' or when Danny Boyle wants to direct 'Jobs'? Hallelujah. I want them directing it.

Along Best Danny David
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The audience has always been my best director.
Always Audience Been Best
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Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.

Bad Directors Good Look
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Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.

American American Film American Writers Directors
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I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.

Director Drama Hire Hollywood
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Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

Action Besides Director Educate
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Limit use of shareware and public domain software to systems without fixed disks. If you do use them on fixed disks, allocate separate subdirectories... Public domain or shareware software should never be placed in the root directory.

Allocate Domain Fixed Limit
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.

About Always Attached Craving
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Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.

Actor Around Business Comedians
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My big break was becoming the spokesperson for Texas Instruments. Casting directors really started giving me a chance to read for projects.

Becoming Big BigBreak Break
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You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an actor or understands acting. They're able to finesse performances out of you that a lot directors can't get.

Able Acting Actor Director
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Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.

Action Actor Aspect Chance
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There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination on a film, then I get to show you my imagination in a big dumb character.

Argument Big Character Director
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In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression.

Actor Controls Director Every
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I had to get a job, and of course, the job was 'The Godfather.' That made me be something I didn't know I was going to be. I became a big-shot director.

Job Course Godfather Made
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I'm not an art director; I'm just not. I've always been somebody who has a sensibility that I hope is the same sensibility of others.

Always Art Been Director
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I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision or a watered-down communal one?

Anymore Artistic Communal Corporate
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I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a ton of chain mail for Ridley any day of the week. He's an amazing director and I can't wait to see the long version.

Amazing Any Back Been
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Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies.

Am Cast Character Directors
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My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.

Actor Becoming College Director
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I miss working with great actors, working with great directors

Actor Directors Great Miss
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I wanna work with good people. I don't want to work with screaming, yelling directors who've got daddy issues. I just don't want to deal with those guys.

Daddy Deal Directors Good
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You need these experiences. Just know that sometimes, the director has a specific look in mind.

Director Experiences Just Know
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I love working with the same actors repeatedly. That happens a lot. It's kind of inevitable, especially if you work with the same writers and directors and you start to form a company of actors. You gravitate towards each other.

Actor Company Directors Each
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A lot of directors straight out of film school are very technically minded, but they don't have an understanding of actors or how to talk to them.

Actor Directors Film FilmSchool
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The ideal director does not exist, every director is a work in progress…the older you get, the better your craft, unless you are a banana.

Ideal director Work In progress
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I was really amazed when I started hearing 'Songbird' on the radio. I couldn't believe that the record company promotion department had actually convinced radio music directors to play it -because there wasn't anything like it on the radio at the time.

Actually Amazed Anything Because
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I realized why directors are such horrible people - in a way - because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.

Realized Director Horrible people Right
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Directors are not worried about casting beautiful women, but they are not sure that they want to cast great-looking men. My looks have prevented people from seeing my work.

About Beautiful BeautifulWomen Cast
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As an actor and a fledgling director, I'm used to making snap decisions that I'll have to live with.

Actor Decisions Director Live
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My feeling about the movies is that most of them are terrible. If you don't have a decent script and a decent director, forget it.

About Decent Director Feeling
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I've had the opportunity to work with so many great directors. Different styles, as well, like Gus Van Sant. He just does the casting and the milieu and let's you do your thing, quietly. Bertolucci, who can talk to you about your internal world in quite a creative way or just say, 'Well, put your hand over here.'

About Casting Creative Different
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When you work with directors who really love actors, who love their contribution, it feels amazing. But sometimes when you work with directors, you feel like you're in the way.

Actor Amazing Contribution Directors
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A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

Director Discovers He His
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I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.

Any Director Filmmaker Had
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I watched a couple of really bad directors work, and I saw how they completely botched it up and missed the visual opportunities of the scene when we had put things in front of them as opportunities. Set pieces, props and so on.

Bad Couple Directors Front
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Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.

After Budget Camera Cheesy
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The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.

Actor Come Director Hearts
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When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.

Acting Actor Anyone Director
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