#director quotes

[melancholicsunflower]

''I am so depressed I don't know what I'm doing. I have not got a clue.''

- David Lynch on location making 'Inland Empire'.

[unwashedace]

I was listening to Marc Maron’s interview with Matt Damon yesterday. At one point during the interview, Damon mentioned that Steven Soderbergh told him, “Confusing people doesn’t make you an artist.” I laughed because I agree with that statement.

And maybe yeah, I am a little over lazy explanations in film class for why a classmate made a particular choice in their project. And please don’t kid yourself and waste my time. There is always a choice and point of view when you make anything. If your film isn’t for entertainment, experimentation then it must communicate. If you’re leaving the heavy lifting to your audience... then you are probably not self-aware enough yet to know what your film is about. Go back and think about it. Make a conscious decision.

(That’s probably not what Soderbergh meant at all but, that’s what it made me think of. I’m kind of an asshole.)

[trumpetcatstuff]

"Trills are like slipping on ice"

—Choir Director

[56sentientratsinatrenchcoat]

Out of context theater director quotes

Our director says some pretty funny stuff, and it only gets better taken out of context. This list is constantly growing, so here’s part one.

If you have your lips practiced then do it

Just to clarify, you’re wearing pants under that. It just looks like you aren’t

You’re like a Buddhist or something

Puliumber

*deep voice* write it good

Wait a beat or two before you do the groin thing with the crutch

IT’S A HAT! *hits hat against table 3 times* HIT HIM HARD

Here, hit me with this

Bill, you kicked the box. Don’t do that

Bigger crutch hit on Snyder’s butt

Is he really smacking your butt?

Walk like a ninja

Don’t be relaxed, we have people gone

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He’ll have the cru-... crutch…. you’ll have the crutch, he’ll have the cuffs

Two legs dragged by Trenton

Our state of health is precarious at best

You cannot hug each other

I’d rather you not even high five

It’s germ Armageddon

You have to like… lay off the smooching

Now I’m grossed out

...We’re skipping sexy circles today...

[sleepysnowglobe]

The Hogwarts Houses as Quotes From My Band Directors

Gryffindor: (when a percussionist screwed up) "I don't know what pretty girl you were looking at over there, but you got off on the last four measures, but she doesn't matter. I'm your daddy, I'm your mommy, I'm your girlfriend, I'm your whatever. I’m important."

Slytherin: “I used to have a bird named Clifford and he kept biting me. So one day Clifford and I had a little talk and I said ‘Clifford stop biting’ and what did he do? He bit me so I opened up the door and he went BUUUAAKK and I just threw him out the window. Clifford got freedom that day.”

Hufflepuff: “I want big thick beautiful rainbow vomits coming out of your instruments like a unicorn with the flu.” 

Ravenclaw: “You have to associate the sounds with colors. So the sound for this should sound warm. Like, blue. Yeah, that’s it! Play like a dark blue-that way it’s like a warm color.”

[l-james-e]

In a country where people are still garrotted I can resign myself to the idea that my characters may be badly dubbed.

pier paolo pasolini on the spanish version of ‘accatone’

[iseetheworldinmetaphor]

“We can’t understand what is happening to something if we aren’t looking. Nothing is going to happen to that some thing if we don’t look deeply.

That’s why so many things with incredible potential go unnoticed, because nobody bothers to look. Like Schrödinger says, what you see in the world is what you get, and that determines our destiny. Vitality or mortality is determined by what we choose to see in the Other.”

— Alejandro G. Iñárritu

[lukianocom]

Hunter S. Thompson – The writer must be a participant in the… 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. Hunter S. Thompson