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No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit

I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.

The emotional, physical and aesthetic value of a sound is linked not only to the causal explanation we attribute to it but also to its own qualities of timbre and texture, to its own personal vibration. So just as directors and cinematographers (even those who will never make abstract films) have everything to gain by refining their knowledge of visual materials and textures, we can similarly benefit from disciplined attention to the inherent qualities of sounds.

Being a writer-director can sometimes make you incredibly blinkered.

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

We weep for a bird’s cry, but not for a fish’s blood. Blessed are those with a voice.

The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwright, no stage director, no emperor, however powerful, has ever exercised such absolute authority to arrange a stage or field of battle and to command such unswervingly dutiful actors or troops.

When we started talking to our actors and to our directors, this is with all due respect to the film, if you want to know what we're not doing, go watch the movie. If you want to know what we're doing, it's very much steeped in the world of the comics, but it also has a life of its own and that's really what television and our films really do is that we take the best....We hope and we're very confident that this is the beginning of something that's very exciting on Netflix.

I believe in the truth of fairy-tales more than I believe in the truth in the newspaper.

I didn't want a guru or a kung fu master or a spiritual director. I didn't want to become a sorcerer or learn the zen of archery or meditate or align my chakras or uncover mast incarnations...I was after something else entirely, but it wasn't in the Yellow Pages or anywhere else that I could discover.

You are the executive director and screenwriter of your life.

I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.

Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often.

I remember once a vocational director said to Fang, "You must develop some mechanical skills - like getting out of bed."

Why not allow patrons to comment on directors' decisions, vote on costume design, listen to dancers' conversations, volunteer to help out in ways beyond just writing a check? They can see themselves as co-producers, not just bystanders.

It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.

I've stood up to producers before, and even a director. I saw them being abusive. A lot of people on the set are scared to say stuff when they're not being treated right.

My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.

An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.

Remember, success is a journey not a destination. Have faith in your ability. You will do just fine.

I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.