Assistant Director Quotes

#1. I was able to go from stage hand to floor manager to assistant director to director in a year because there was just no one else to do it and what I didn't realise and what people don't understand now about television is that we used to do about five shows a day.

Richard Lester

#2. I know that you observe Christmas Day as you learned it at home. I do not observe it. However, as assistant director of this prison, I allow all the Catholics to observe freely and with some joy this day in this home.

Odilo Globocnik

#3. You okay, there, Mr. Rat Man?" Minho asked. "My name is Assistant Director Janson," he replied, his voice low and strained, as if it was hard work to stay calm. His eyes never left Thomas. "Learn to show respect for your elders.

James Dashner

#4. We've hired the calmest babies in the world to play the hysterical Thomas. One did finally start to cry but stopped every time Chris [Newman (assistant director)] yelled 'Action' ... Babies smiled all afternoon. Buddhist babies. They didn't cry once. We, however, were all in tears by 5 p.m.

Emma Thompson

#5. I smiled. You mean like a psychic imprint? I know your assistant director of the Preternatural Division, and I mean no disrespect, but I never got the feeling you believed in magic as an investigative tool.'
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Gary Starta

#6. The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized.

John Frankenheimer

#7. Then I usually leave the choice of the second assistant director and any other assistant directors to the first assistant director, who will choose because he or she is responsible for the conduct and the efficiency of the second assistant directors.

John Frankenheimer

#8. After university, I went into film. I started out making tea, managed a brief stint as an assistant director, then found myself writing a screenplay. In the end, I wrote quite a few - but by January 2006, I wanted out.

Nick Harkaway

#9. My first job as assistant director was to make sure he didn't cast the talented blond dancer who had so easily stolen my boyfriend the summer before. I accomplished this with the persistent and skilled manipulation of a grade A bitch.

Tina Fey

#10. The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie.

John Frankenheimer

#11. I was an assistant director for a year, and I realized, 'God, this is a lot of hard work. This is going to take time. So what's the shortcut? What's the better option?' Then thankfully, someone said, 'Why don't you become an actor?'

Emraan Hashmi

#12. The skin around the assistant director's eyes stretches.

Anthony Doerr

#13. I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.

John Boorman

#14. I was on a couple of scholarships. I had a job in the school administrative office. I had a job as a hat-check boy in a restaurant. I had another job as an assistant to a casting director. It took a lot to get myself enough money to put myself through Juilliard.

Kevin Spacey

#15. You can't have meaningful political democracy without functioning economic democracy.

Noam Chomsky

#16. One of the best ways to cultivate a possibility mind set is to prompt yourself to dream one size bigger than you normally do. Let's face it, most people dream too small, they don't think big enough.

John C. Maxwell

#17. Hopeful dreams - even where crack kings' and dope fiends feast. Dust from the ash and rubble; they shine like bright stars once the mic is gripped and the bars are spit.

T.F. Hodge

#18. I first started working in film when I was 17. I was a director's assistant, an editor.

Mathieu Amalric

#19. I kind of romanticized what it was like to be a writer and director when I was in my early twenties. Working as a production assistant knocked that right out of me.

Bill Hader

#20. They always act this way: push those who are falling.

Igor Eliseev

#21. One man in his time plays many parts

William Shakespeare

#22. The fear for a network is the viewer gets tired of you. Not that you lost any credibility, but they get tired of you.

Terry Bradshaw

#23. I started out in 1985, and I was Inmate #1 in every prison movie made from '85 to '93.

Kim Coates

#24. When the world kicks your ass, don't step in line.
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Sondra Faye

#25. Because I've had a taste and I'm not sharing. This isn't just for fun. I may be slightly addicted.

Abbi Glines

#26. Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we have in order to maintain our pinnacle position in the world.

Ben Carson

#27. The Revolutionary Guard controls almost everything in Iran, and this is hurting the people.

Reza Aslan

#28. We are the leaders that we have been waiting for. We are the social innovators and entrepreneurs that we have been seeking.

Duane Elgin

#29. It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'

Zoey Deutch

#30. The only way I will do a sitcom is if it's hurled at me, and I don't have to work for it.

Gabriel Iglesias

#31. Second Changes Are not given to make things right, But to prove that we could be better even after we fail

Wendy Prince