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Quotes about direction
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The best path through life is the highway. (Coleman Dabney)
Let the path be open to talent. (Coleman Dabney)
It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good. (Coleman Dabney)
You cannot be lost on a road that is straight. (Coleman Dabney)
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Step by step one goes very far. (Coleman Dabney)
It is better to run back than run the wrong way. (Coleman Dabney)
If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed. (Coleman Dabney)
I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos. (Coleman Dabney)
I am a first-time director given an opportunity to pursue an artistic ambition I would not likely have the chance to elsewhere. The budget is excruciatingly tight, I am regularly abused and I expect to be fired sometime before we shoot. It's nice to see that, at Miramax, continuity has been maintained. (Coleman Dabney)
There are other non-English, Asian, Mexican... many, many directors I'd love to work with of different nationalities because a different national temperament and a different rhythm and a different way of looking at things is enlightening to work with. (Coleman Dabney)
If the director wishes to print it, then you have a series of choices, maybe millions of choices within that minute-and-a-half, or 80 seconds, or 2 minutes or however long or short the take is, you have all those choices committed to celluloid. I find that absolutely thrilling. (Coleman Dabney)
There's probably a young director, male or female, out there somewhere, I don't even know their names, but maybe I'm destined to work with them, and we'll have an extraordinary relationship. I would love to work with Claire Denis because I think she's extraordinary. (Coleman Dabney)
I think that really the director should try and shape what is there. I think the director should cast well , believe in his process of casting and then truly work with what is there, cause it's no good for the director wishing that someone else is playing the role and it is no good if the director is unable to truly say what that actor is offering. (Coleman Dabney)
I think a great director is able to conclude things with grace... and I remember Gandhi ending in a very similar way. (Coleman Dabney)
The wonderful thing about golf for a director is that it is inherently cinematic and dramatic. In a tournament the golfers are like gunslingers. (Coleman Dabney)
I wish I could say that when I didn't agree with a director I defer to him, but I think sometimes I'm a little self-righteous. (Coleman Dabney)
As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is. (Coleman Dabney)
A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his. (Coleman Dabney)
I'm as happy as any director who's tormented by everything they had to change. (Coleman Dabney)
Directors will have a different idea than I have. It will rarely be a perfect match. (Coleman Dabney)
Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal. (Coleman Dabney)
I want to direct but I think I'd be bloody awful and I don't want to produce but I think I'd be a very good producer because if I believed in something I'd be able to protect it. (Coleman Dabney)
Twelve years on sets watching directors, I've taken a bit from everybody and rejected a lot. (Coleman Dabney)
Tthere will be a Directors cut for sure and all the things I am talking about will be on there....story makes for a good film...I don't give a shit what it is, story starts and ends everything. (Coleman Dabney)
I'd love to see the rushes but it's just not allowed because directors and also a lot of actors feel that if they see their work, and the director likes what they're doing, the actor might try to correct their mistakes. (Coleman Dabney)
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