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A good film to me is like lightning in a bottle.

~Don Scardino

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Studios are so used to digital now, and there is a mythology that it's cheaper. But it's really not cheaper. For instance, digital is great for night exteriors; everybody knows it's a video tap, so it's very responsive to light. So you can go out at night, shoot with digital, and it's gorgeous, beautiful to look at.

~Don Scardino

Topics: Beautiful Cheaper Digital Everybody Go Gorgeous Great Instance Knows Light Look Mythology Night Now Out Really Responsive Shoot Studios Tap Used Very Video You

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I grew up in Queens, and on Sunday evenings, my parents would drive my brother and me past the factory. We could smell the week's supply of bread baking. I always connected the 59th Street Bridge with that scent. Who woulda thunk, years later, I'd be there, directing and producing a hit TV show?

~Don Scardino

Topics: Always Baking Bread Bridge Brother Connected Could Directing Drive Evenings Factory Grew Hit Later Me Parents Past Producing Queens Scent Show Smell Street Sunday Supply Tv Tv Show Up Week Who Would Years

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I can speak to actors in their terms. Knowing I was an actor, they relax. You can have the best shot in the world - but, at the center of it, you still need a good performance.

~Don Scardino

Topics: Actor Best Center Good Knowing Need Performance Relax Shot Speak Still Terms World You I Can

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We ask actors to come to work ready to open a vein, to be emotionally thin-skinned. If someone screams, 'What about my coffee?' it's not about the coffee; it's because they're working in an emotional state. It ain't easy being an actor.

~Don Scardino

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It's pretty easy in theatre. The comedy's either physical or verbal, and you're looking at the whole frame at once. But TV executives want close-ups. I keep telling them to look at Preston Sturges' movies. He'll do a whole scene without a cut in it, and it's a riot.

~Don Scardino

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: February 17th, 1948

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