Assistants – Quotes

The physician is only

The physician is only nature’s assistant. Galen

I was an assistant director for a year, and I realized, ‘God, this is a lot of hard work. This is going to take time. So what’s the shortcut? What’s the better option?’ Then thankfully, someone said, ‘Why don’t you become an actor?’ Emraan Hashmi

The subconscious is like

The subconscious is like having a laboratory assistant who pretends to love you and help you, but after you go home to go to sleep it goes back into the lab and starts fumbling with the data and destroying it. It’s a very tricky thing. People think our minds are us, but that’s not true … Read more

Photoshop is useful in

Photoshop is useful in many ways but must NEVER be used for the altering of photographs. My assistants and my agency do whatever Photoshop work for me that may be required as it is too complicated for my brain. Elliott Erwitt

I\\’m into capturing the

I’m into capturing the moment. Sometimes, I’ll rip the camera out of my assistant’s hands and he’ll be shouting, But there’s no film in the camera! and I think, Never mind! Let’s go. Ellen von Unwerth

From the Cooperative League,

From the Cooperative League, I suppose, with the Depression lingering as long as it did, the next step in terms of, as you call it, professional relationship, was to go to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP]. I went there as an assistant field secretary, and so forth. So, I suppose … Read more

Quentin Tarantino assistant called

Quentin Tarantino assistant called me and said: \”I have good news and bad news. The good news is you got the part, the bad news is you have to do it.\” I was like: \”Oh Jesus, when am I supposed to do this?\” I was prepping Hostel. Eli Roth

Smearing good people like

Smearing good people like Lauchlin Currie [former administrative assistant to President Roosevelt], Alger Hiss and others is, I think, unforgiveable… Anyone knowing Mr. Currie or Mr. Hiss, who are the two people whom I happen to know fairly well, would not need any denial on their part to know they are not Communists. Their records … Read more

I worked as an

I worked as an assistant editor, actually, for a few years. That was right when I was just starting to get out at night and do a lot of stand-up, improv, and sketch work in New York. It really is invaluable. I think it pounded into me an awareness of what an editor wants and … Read more

My dad\’s a prominent

My dad’s a prominent theatre director in Toronto, so I grew up in that world, directing and producing theater since I was a teenager. I always loved movies but they seemed too complicated until I got a job as an assistant on a movie-of-the-week and the technical process became demystified, like peeking behind a magician’s … Read more