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Famous quotes by Directors

DirectorsExplore insights from directors whose work spans film, television, theater, nonprofits, and business. These quotes highlight how directors balance vision with practical leadership, bring teams together, and turn ideas into finished works. Whether you are curious about the craft of storytelling, the dynamics of decision-making, or the human side of guiding a project, this collection offers concise perspectives from voices accustomed to shaping outcomes. Read with an open mind and discover a range of experiences, lessons, and inspirations from people who direct.
"Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood"
Rob Reiner, Director
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"I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch"
Woody Allen, Director
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"We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false"
William J. Casey, Director
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"My one regret in life is that I am not someone else"
Woody Allen, Director
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"Tradition is the illusion of permanance"
Woody Allen, Director
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"If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans"
Woody Allen, Director
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"In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all"
Krzysztof Kieslowski, Director
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"The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small"
Woody Allen, Director
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"A different language is a different vision of life"
Federico Fellini, Director
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"In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker"
Woody Allen, Director
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"Eighty percent of success is showing up"
Woody Allen, Director
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"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying"
Woody Allen, Director
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"I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys"
Woody Allen, Director
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"He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian"
Woody Allen, Director
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"The idea of playing a part where I get to wear a completely undetectable hairpiece... you can't walk away from that"
Rob Reiner, Director
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"The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary"
Francois Truffaut, Director
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"It's not that we use technology, we live technology"
Godfrey Reggio, Director
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"Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?"
Ridley Scott, Director
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"I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul"
Jean Cocteau, Director
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"I am eye. I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, am showing you a world, the likes of which only I can see"
Dziga Vertov, Director
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"I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead"
Woody Allen, Director
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"There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?"
Woody Allen, Director
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"Film lovers are sick people"
Francois Truffaut, Director
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"If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on"
Alfred Hitchcock, Director
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"A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again"
Jean Renoir, Director
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"A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes"
Howard Hawks, Director
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"Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon"
Woody Allen, Director
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"I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle"
Alfred Hitchcock, Director
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"For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake"
Alfred Hitchcock, Director
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"Technology is not neutral"
Godfrey Reggio, Director
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