Top 25 Directors Cut Quotes
#1. Definitely my favorite cut is the one that got put out. That's my favorite version of the film, the one that I put in theaters. That's my directors cut, there's no question about it.
Fede Alvarez
#2. She followed the melting flakes, revelling in the thickness, the softness of his hair, which he wore long. She had loved to run her fingers through it before. Tug at it in mounting pleasure. Snuggle into it in the shared intimacy of their loving.
Charlotte Featherstone
#3. The secret of DNA's success is that it carries information like that of a computer program, but far more advanced. Since experience shows that intelligence is the only presently acting cause of information, we can infer that intelligence is the best explanation for the information in DNA.
Jonathan Wells
#4. There is simply no substitute for forceful American leadership. Sometimes the best way to get allies is to be willing to forge ahead alone.
Rich Lowry
#5. I don't throw a lot of parties. I find throwing parties a bit intimidating.
Helen Mirren
#6. They taught using an Italian system of experimental education in which the students did whatever the fuck we wanted.
Isabel Allende
#7. There are really only a handful of directors who have a final cut clause in Hollywood. You only get that power if you've made a couple of hundred-million-dollar successes.
Gillian Armstrong
#8. In the old days, before there was such a thing as film schools, directors learned the camera by watching other directors, and learning from their own dailies, and listening to the cameraman, and seeing what would work. Some of those guys could cut their movies in their head.
Don Ameche
#9. In the past I've worked with directors who saw very much their scene in their head and knew exactly how they were going to cut it.
Colm Meaney
#10. We all belong to Him, from the cradle to the grave, whether we know it or not. And He'll see justice done in His own time and in His own way. Now if we trust in Him, that's all we have to think about. I'm not saying it's easy. I'm just saying it's what I think we're go do.
Lisa Tawn Bergren
#11. Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
Zadie Smith
#12. I'm not one of these directors, so far, that wants to have a whole separate director's cut of these things. So far they've turned out to be kind of the length that they wanted to be.
Jay Roach
#14. I'm actually one who will encourage directors to cut my lines.
Stanley Tucci
#16. There's another part of the brain that seeps dopamine, specifically just before those peak emotional moments in a song: the caudate nucleus, which is involved in the anticipation of pleasure.
Anonymous
#17. One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.
Rachel Field
#18. Every major accomplishment in a man's life requires a major level of commitment.
Jim George
#19. Black Poets should live
not leap
From steel bridges, like the white boys do.
Etheridge Knight
#20. You don't have your film finished when you have your director's cut finished. It's just a bunch of green screen.
M. Night Shyamalan
#21. Songs are pretty easy. They are small, they are modular, they are about as big as a bagel. They are easy to build. Films are overwhelming in their magnitude and scope. By comparison, a lot of film directors wish they were writing songs because you can do it while getting your hair cut.
Tom Waits
#22. It may sound funny, but I got a thrill when I was pulled into a crowd once. It was like 'How am I going to get out of this?!
Nick Carter
#23. In theater, you're in charge of your performance, and at the end of the day you're the one who gets credit because you're in front of the audience doing it, and in film and TV it's the director who gets to decide when to cut to you on a line, which take he uses.
Jonathan Groff
#24. I'm an unusual director in that my cut is usually shorter then the final released film. I like short films.
Barry Sonnenfeld
#25. It's good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.
Margaret Cho
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