Famous quotes by Directors

"I hope that not only my documentaries, but everybody's documentaries, last. It will really confuse historians in the next century, because they'll have, in addition to all the print material, they'll have all these pictures to look at"

Frederick Wiseman, Director

"To try and raise a budget for a film that is strictly for adults and both strong and graphic in content is not easy, especially when there is pressure to spend serious money on good special effects"

Dario Argento, Director

"Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance"

Taylor Hackford, Director

"The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them"

Taylor Hackford, Director

"It's... a hard thing for a director, to think you came up with a shot, something from your mind, and someone died while doing it. It's the worst thing you'll ever have to live with. It was very hard for me to get back on the horse again"

Michael Bay, Director

"You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler"

Milos Forman, Director

"I make movies for teenage boys. Oh dear, what a crime"

Michael Bay, Director

"Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique"

David Lean, Director

"Symbolism perhaps is a bit in your face, and I've tried my best to control that as best I can as I've grown older and thought that one could approach something with a little more subtlety"

John Schlesinger, Director

"I'll never forget the first screening at the Berlin Film Festival. As soon as the film ended, there was an outbreak of booing, which made us look at each other with some surprise"

John Schlesinger, Director

"How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly?"

Richard Donner, Director

"Don't make jokes about food"

David Lean, Director

"One is always considered mad when one discovers something that others cannot grasp"

Ed Wood, Director

"The closer you stay to emotional authenticity and people, character authenticity, the less you can go wrong. That's how I feel now, no matter what you're doing"

David O. Russell, Director

"Is it possible that there are no coincidences?"

M. Night Shyamalan, Director

"The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again, when the actor interprets them"

Joel Coen, Director

"The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers, dried sunflowers, rattling against a wall"

Chuck Jones, Director

"You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the material. Not all minds are the same. Every aspect of filmmaking requires choice. The selection of the subject, the shooting, editing, and length are all aspects of choice"

Frederick Wiseman, Director

"Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself"

Dario Argento, Director

"A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together"

Chuck Jones, Director

"We worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself"

Val Guest, Director

"Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis"

Val Guest, Director

"That's my curse, I see the politics within these things and so I don't say yes to them"

Alex Cox, Director

"Justin Salinger showed up one day with a pink cowboy hat on and everyone else got really annoyed because somehow he'd managed to get the pink cowboy hat"

Alex Cox, Director

"The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford"

Trevor Nunn, Director

"The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra"

Roland Joffe, Director

"Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality"

George Lucas, Director

"Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer"

George Lucas, Director

"If you can't fully believe in your ideas, it very quickly communicates to a group of actors who need something to hold onto. They need to believe that whatever criticism, whatever comment is received, is meant"

Trevor Nunn, Director

"I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know"

Roland Joffe, Director

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