Famous quotes by Directors

"The children, each of those kids is in touch with nature and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important part of getting performances from them was just letting them be and trying to capture the unique spirituality that was in each of them"

Phillip Noyce, Director

"The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it"

John Huston, Director

"I no longer knew what it was like to feel Australian"

Phillip Noyce, Director

"It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that are not critically attuned are aware of cynical manipulation in film"

John Boorman, Director

"You can work, shop, do everything from home, and I find this unsettling"

Patrice Leconte, Director

"I made the film to bring the story of Islam, the story of 700 million of people, to the West"

Moustapha Akkad, Director

"When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her"

Sacha Guitry, 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

"It's not color, it's like pouring 40 tablespoons of sugar water over a roast"

John Huston, Director

"I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk"

John Huston, 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

"You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is"

Elia Kazan, Director

"Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church"

Bill Condon, Director

"When you're working with a smaller budget, I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum"

Atom Egoyan, Director

"Suddenly, the screens were dominated by American entertainment to the extent of something like 95 percent. As a result, audiences turned away from the kinds of films that we used to make"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"In the nude, all that is not beautiful is obscene"

Robert Bresson, Director

"For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents - as an element - the greatest difficulty in manipulation"

Sergei Eisenstein, Director

"More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all"

Lars von Trier, Director

"I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema"

Lars von Trier, Director

"With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in"

Norman Jewison, Director

"Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?"

Sergei Eisenstein, Director

"I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic"

Norman Jewison, Director

"People have perhaps gotten to the point where, for the most part, movies are a just bit of escape"

Neil LaBute, Director

"Samurai culture did exist really, for hundreds of years and the notion of people trying to create some sort of a moral code, the idea that there existed certain behaviors that could be celebrated and that could be operative in a life"

Edward Zwick, Director

"I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student"

Edward Zwick, Director

"The story is also about the battle between Arthur and the Saxons. The Saxons were destroying everything they came across, and Arthur was left when Rome was falling because this movie takes place in 400 A.D"

Antoine Fuqua, Director

"I believe in God, absolutely"

Antoine Fuqua, Director

"We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure"

John Grierson, Director

"Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty"

John Grierson, Director

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