Famous quotes by Directors

"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

"We need to tell our own stories, because when we don't, someone else tells them for us, and they usually get them wrong"

Ava DuVernay, Director

"When you make a film, you usually make a film about an idea"

Sydney Pollack, Director

"I don't know what it means to be out there against the Olympics"

Yahoo Serious, Director

"Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you could create a really contained story. We wanted to be on a set as much as we could to get the kind of style level we were looking for"

Larry Wachowski, Director

"My use of language is part and parcel of my message"

Theo Van Gogh, Director

"Ah, I hope to live to 87 and drink from the the goblet of life to the dregs"

Theo Van Gogh, Director

"If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race"

Yahoo Serious, Director

"The influences in my life were all kind of politically, socially implanted. And then there was Watergate"

Tobe Hooper, Director

"I want to warn against the Fifth Column, which is trying to hinder our free way of life in Holland"

Theo Van Gogh, Director

"Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts"

Yahoo Serious, Director

"Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director"

Sydney Pollack, Director

"With a movie you're creating from the beginning, this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes, very rarely by accident, a movie becomes a work of art"

Sydney Pollack, Director

"The horror genre is important because it promotes experimentation in filmmaking"

Richard King, Director

"Also, I plan to screw something up on every movie I do so that I can learn from my mistakes and become a better director with each project"

Richard King, Director

"Everyone has an opinion, and the guy screaming for censorship may be the next guy to have his ideas cut off"

Richard King, Director

"We really want to see how the idea of an intellectual action movie is received by the world"

Larry Wachowski, Director

"Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him"

Larry Wachowski, Director

"When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy"

David Cronenberg, Director

"If you put yourself in a group of people you cannot work with, it's obviously going to be a disaster"

David Cronenberg, Director

"For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do"

David Cronenberg, Director

"I'm not politically motivated. I used to be - passionately. I used to be very Left wing. Then I went very Right wing, and now I rest somewhere in the middle"

Guy Ritchie, Director

"I'd like to work with the missus, but there's nothing in the pipeline at the moment"

Guy Ritchie, Director

"The idea is that that there is no such thing as an external enemy"

Guy Ritchie, Director

"Now, after the communist take-over in 1948, the amount of feature films produced dwindled to three a year, while the school was, you know, every year another three, four, five students"

Milos Forman, Director

"I had life threats because people accused me of approaching Brando as God and his son was Jesus. I literally had people saying my blood would run in the streets for doing that"

Richard Donner, Director

"The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they weren't really stars yet. Nicolas Cage was not a big star when we did Raising Arizona. A lot of these people were also virtually unknown, too, when we worked with them first"

Joel Coen, Director

"When they see those fourteen lights, they're looking at a miracle. And deep down, they feel that whatever's going to happen, there will be someone there to help them. And that fills them with hope"

M. Night Shyamalan, Director

"Really? Worst film you ever saw. Well, my next one will be better. Hello. Hello"

Ed Wood, Director

"I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'"

David O. Russell, Director

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