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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.

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I thought it was a huge conflict of interest to be the director and the subject - it's very sketchy territory to be in. I've seen what's happened to other directors who have done that.

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Obviously there was Keith Haring and Robert Mapplethorpe, but Howard was on the brink of becoming a famous director - it didn't happen because he died.

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Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work.

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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.

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I don't like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.

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The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'

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[ Gareth Edwards] never wanted to force anything that wasn't true. He's very much an actor's director, and it was loose.

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David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.

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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.

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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.

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I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.

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It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

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I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't matter.

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I always found something strangely paternal about the director-actor relationship. Actors want so much approval.

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Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.

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Somehow, we [ Tan Dun and director Chen Kaige] were all privileged at the time; we could be outside of China. But at the moment, we had no sense of what the future was going to be like.

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In every shoot, between the actor and the director there is manipulation. I'm not saying that negatively. It's healthy.

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Obviously there was Keith Haring and Robert Mapplethorpe, but Howard was on the brink of becoming a famous director - it didn't happen because he died.

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In time truth and science and nature will adapt themselves to art. Things will happen logically, and the villain be discomfited instead of being elected to the board of directors. But in the meantime fiction must not only be divorced from fact, but must pay alimony and be awarded custody of the press despatches.

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