Famous quotes by Directors

"Piracy has destroyed the domestic market"

Zhang Yimou, Director

"The director is the only person who knows what the film is about"

Satyajit Ray, Director

"I never read reviews. I'm not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators"

Hayao Miyazaki, Director

"I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work"

Hayao Miyazaki, Director

"I'm not really interested in making money"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. At the same time, a response to a response doesn't really solve anything. It just creates a perpetual-motion machine"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"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

"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

"If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story"

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

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

John Frankenheimer, Director

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

Julie Taymor, Director

"Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me"

Tim Burton, Director

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

John Frankenheimer, 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

"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

"I start with actors that I know personally or I know their work, and there are things about their work or their presence or their own personality that make a character, that exaggerates some qualities and suppresses other qualities. It's always a real collaboration for me"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"I like doing them and they're ridiculous, and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic characters that hit a very specific tone as in a feature film. They're really fun, I want to make more of them definitely"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"It was a really interesting time in New York in the late '70s and early '80s, and the music scene was really, really interesting because you didn't have to be a virtuoso to make music, it was more about your desire to express things"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"Hopefully, if not, it's not working right. I'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like fruit. I like cherries, I like bananas"

Jim Jarmusch, 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

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