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My approach to directing is to not do very much directing. I'm mainly interested in what the creative group individually and together are thinking.

~Alex Garland

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I don't write on set. I also - in a funny way, I don't really differentiate between the writing and directing. I think it's all sort of the same thing.

~Alex Garland

Topics: Also Between Differentiate Directing Funny Funny Way Really Same Same Thing Set Sort Thing Think Way Write Writing I Think

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Most TV shows are writing the next episode while you're directing the one you're doing, and they're trying to figure out what they're going to do, and they're putting it all together.

~Alex Graves

Topics: Directing Doing Episode Figure Going Most Next Out Putting Shows Together Trying Tv Tv Shows While Writing You

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I like directing myself; I feel like it's one less person to give notes to. There's an efficiency in it. I'm also kind of a control freak. So I like the fact that it gives me more control in the overall picture.

~Alex Karpovsky

Topics: Also Control Control Freak Directing Efficiency Fact Feel Freak Give Gives Kind Less Like Me More Myself Notes Overall Person Picture I Feel I Feel Like

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I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

~Alexander Payne

Topics: About Definitely Directing Editing Filmmaking Find Harvest Material Means More More And More Writing

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I truly enjoy directing. I enjoy looking at the words on the paper and visualizing how to make them come to life.

~Alfonso Ribeiro

Topics: Come Directing Enjoy How Life Looking Make Paper Them Truly Words

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Movies alone have the hideous capacity to do everything for you. So in directing movies, you have to figure how to leave things out - because when you leave things out, you evoke the imaginative participation of the audience.

~Alison Owen

Topics: Alone Audience Because Capacity Directing Everything Evoke Figure Hideous How Imaginative Leave Movies Out Participation Things You

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I always want to be telling stories in whatever fashion I can, and directing is really just understanding and learning a different element of that storytelling process.

~Allison Mack

Topics: Always Different Directing Element Fashion Just Learning Process Really Stories Storytelling Telling Understanding Want Whatever I Can

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My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera.

~Alton Brown

Topics: Any Because Behind Camera College College Degree Degree Directing Lot Real Real Reason Reason Speak Spent Success Theater Years

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I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials.

~Alton Brown

Topics: Around Commercials Directing Eats Good Had Idea Kicked

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