Famous quotes by Directors

"I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain, and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in"

Wim Wenders, Director

"There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence"

Julie Taymor, Director

"I feel that my job is to create an atmosphere where creative people can do their best work"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"In this age of consumerism, film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance"

Wim Wenders, Director

"Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed"

Wim Wenders, Director

"Entertainment today constantly emphasises the message that things are wonderful the way they are. But there is another kind of cinema, which says that change is possible and necessary and it's up to you"

Wim Wenders, Director

"Historically, the director has been the key creative element in a film, and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that's continually trying to erode that"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them"

Peter Weir, Director

"I have gotten to a point in my life where I don't want to have dinner with someone I don't like"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"Casting is 65 percent of directing"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"Many French directors, having now realised there was no more real criticism, that the standards of the past have gone, are very offended about the quality of film criticism"

Wim Wenders, Director

"I've become wary of interviews in which you're forced to go back over the reasons why you made certain decisions. You tend to rationalize what you've done, to intellectually review a process that is often intuitive"

Peter Weir, Director

"If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies"

Kathryn Bigelow, Director

"The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts"

Sam Mendes, Director

"One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working with an actor who the audience already has a relationship with actually helps you in a film like this"

Sam Mendes, Director

"Walt Disney had always tried to get more dimension in his animation and when I saw these tapes, I thought, This is it! This is what Walt was waiting for! But when I looked around, nobody at the studio at the time was even halfway interested in it"

John Lasseter, Director

"I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards: how did they do that?"

John Lasseter, Director

"Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else"

John Lasseter, Director

"People told me I couldn't kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice"

Tim Burton, Director

"To survive is to win"

Zhang Yimou, Director

"This is my first wuxia movie, and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own"

Zhang Yimou, Director

"Piracy has destroyed the domestic market"

Zhang Yimou, Director

"I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"I think that every movie should have some form of a message, and what makes a film good is not just the entertainment factor, but also the values and ideas that it presents"

Moustapha Akkad, Director

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