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"Adam McKay is one of my favorites so I guess up and coming one is a Alex Garland who I think is really really talented who made ex machina and sunshine and like is just original genre stuff that's that's just awesome."
"This is my favorite Coen Brothers movie by far."
"Wes Anderson is one of my favorite directors."
"Matt Reeves and Todd Phillips made excellent movies that were not at least primarily created to be part of a larger Cinematic Universe."
"Every director was at the bottom of the career ladder at some point."
"Among the directors that have helped shape the horror genre the most, John Carpenter stands among the greats."
"Denis Villeneuve is one of the greatest directors currently working."
"It was a year full of outstanding films across all budget ranges letting imaginative directors run wild with their ideas."
"Every actor is different. Many directors are frightened of actors, they feel like they're different species. Well, they're not. They're human beings."
"Because the working relationship between actors and directors can be so valuable, many directors will return to certain performers again and again."
"People are now just kind of fascinated by what the next director is going to do with that character."
"Martin Scorsese is considered to be one of the greatest directors in cinema history."
"The Zucker brothers are regarded as some of the most successful and innovative comedy filmmakers of all time."
"'Airplane' is a classic American comedy film directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker."
"Here's a question for you. Who do you think is a better Batman film director, bearing in mind the eras that they did them in? Tim Burton or Nolan?"
"I'm not saying Batman 89 isn't without its merits, of course it is, but obviously, Nolan is a better director than Burton in general, would you agree with that?"
"But they are the kind of directors who know how to make engaging films."
"Directors have become the modern A-list stars."
"The average person would struggle to name 10 movie directors or even one screenwriter."
"Who will be your all-time top five movie directors? Mine would be Spielberg, Tarantino, David Lean, Danny Boyle, and Guillermo del Toro. Wow, okay."
"Directors like Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman, and Fellini began to create films with the complexity and skepticism characteristic of the modernist movement."
"...M. Shyamalan, Patty Jenkins, and Damian Chazelle really represent the three ways of doing it. M. Shyamalan's route is the simplest but also the riskiest."
"While the budget is significantly higher, the movie still has the same director and the same writer, but with mountains more cocaine."
"I love that they're getting some more prominent directors to be involved."
"This is what makes me allergic to directors."
"Eli Roth and Robert Rodriguez are like hand in hand for me."
"They've fired more directors than they've hired at this point. Make these big announcements, then what's left? It's like they're just going for a name."
"Before Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio decided to make Shutter Island, they were actually going to make Wolf of Wall Street first."
"They're working on it, but dude here's the thing about Pumpkinhead, Pumpkinhead, the original Pumpkinhead, you got the great Stan Winston working on that and he directed it too."
"Who would you rather see make a Bond movie, Tarantino or Nolan? Nolan, I don't think Tarantino's style would fit with a Bond movie whatsoever."
"Kurosawa is one of those directors that only come around in a lifetime."
"And those package programs featuring shorts by classic animation directors."
"Directors have a hard, important job on site. They deserve all of that credit. But power trips... and sometimes you'll get an ego that just feels the need to gift themselves some kind of present."
"Two of the greatest directors in Hollywood."
"He's a guy who had, and all the great directors have this, an absolute ruthless sense of getting the story told in the way he sees it."
"You can only watch one director's movies... who do you choose?"
"Ultimately, I'd go with Scorsese... but Woody would probably be my number two."
"The corporate governance code says that there has to be a balance and this means really that at least half of the board have to be non-executive directors."
"We can still see the remnants of that excitement whenever we watch a movie by Quentin Tarantino, Sofia Coppola or Wes Anderson."
"James Cameron's up there, Christopher Nolan's up there, Quentin Tarantino's up there."
"It's reminiscent of directors like Tarkovsky or Carlos Regadas."
"Great directors make great films, and Spielberg is no different."
"For me, Sammo Hung and Yuen Woo-ping are the best, all the best."
"It's like Tarantino makes cameos in his films."
"What made me realize I love Superman is this weird alchemy when you combine Nolan and Snyder."
"The French New Wave definitely has its darlings: Francois Truffaut, Agnes Varda, and Jean-Luc Godard."
"This is a great, great Coen Brothers film."
"She loved directors so every director she worked with was really also a very deliberate decision."
"What is the Golden Age of film for me? It's the heyday of the Lucas and the Spielberg."
"The Coen brothers are my favorite directors ever."
"The shareholders are the principals; the directors are the agents."
"I'm gonna go see the new Christopher Nolan film, I'm gonna see the new Tarantino."
"Independent directors are a category of non-executive directors."
"The nomination committee identifies candidates who are qualified to serve as directors."
"I think the best thing that people can do is to try and find people that they trust with film recommendations or directors that they trust."
"I'm glad to see that there are some directors that are really trying to keep it alive."
"After watching the tragedy of Macbeth, I had to personally re-evaluate every film by the Coen Brothers."
"The script turned out really well, a lot of directors were interested in it."
"Non-executive directors should be more independent."
"I slightly prefer Tarantino over Nolan."
"It's always important to say thank you to directors like that."
"My favorite Martin Scorsese film? Probably Taxi Driver, and then Wolf of Wall Street and Casino."
"Let me remind you of 40-year-old white men that have made an impact in the movie industry like Quentin Tarantino, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock."
"You just need to know the heavy hitters like Spielberg, Scorsese, Tarantino."
"The Russo Brothers came out of the gate swinging and never let us down once."
"Kubrick and Coppola are the top two because these guys swing for the fences like maniacal fools."
"These are my 10 favorite directors, something that they do, the way that they tell a story, the way that they incorporate cinematography, it speaks to me on just a different level."