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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.
-Al Pacino
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Al Pacino
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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You start out with big dreams and i mean, big dreams artistically. you want to work with the greatest living directors, make a great movie. i wanted to make a great love story, i wanted to make a great epic and then you realize that the truth of it is that it's so hard to make a great film. it's hard to get a great role. those big expectations change to realism pretty quickly. but what's never changed is my desire to work with great directors and to find projects that push me out of my comfort zone and keep me alive. i still don't think i've done my best work
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I love actors and i understand what has to happen within a scene. any scene is an acting scene and actors never act alone, so there has to be an interchange. if it's a dialog scene, if it's a love scene, it doesn't matter because you need to establish a situation.
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Most directors, i discovered, need to be convinced that the screenplay they're going to direct has something to do with them. and this is a tricky thing if you write screenplays where women have parts that are equal to or greater than the male part. and i thought, 'why am i out there looking for directors?'—because you look at a list of directors, it's all boys. it certainly was when i started as a screenwriter. so i thought, 'i'm just gonna become a director and that'll make it easier.'
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