For the past several years of reading about directors and actors, whenever they've said something that ticked me I've written it down. Quite unintentionally I've ended up with a bit of a collection that I thought I might share.
Have a limited amount of money but limitless ambition - Danny Boyle
Meeting everyone else's expectations is really just meeting your own - Joss Whedon
Know the script so well you can work of instinct - Anthony Hopkins
A character comes to a choice where things either get better or they get worse - A. Reynolds
Film making is the art of withholding information - Per Holmes
The power of mystery- the power of what might be - JJ Abrams
Clarity & Geography - what's going on in the scene? where am I in the movie? - Tom Cruise
Story telling is joke telling - Andrew Stanton
"The cat sat on the mat" is not a story. "The cat sat on sat on the other cat's mat" is
As long as it is working, don't cut - Michael Kahn
Whatever character you're playing they are always doing something. They're not just talking. Alive and experience - Tom Hardy
What's the best thing a Producer can do? Fuck off mainly - Ewan McGregor
Always risk, go out onto the edge of the limb of the tree, go out even further till you fall
What happened between the characters birth and page one of the script - Viggo Mortrnsen
All you have to do is ask yourself what frightens you and you'll know what frightens me
"Yes and" is the respond to all improvs - Mike Myers
Work through that 97% of murky abysmal mediocrity to get that 3% which everyone will remember you for - unknown
8 rewrites - well worth it - Ricky Gervais
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