Famous quotes by Directors

"If you want to understand a society, follow the money, and follow the secrets"

Alex Gibney, Director

"I want to make films that are honest, that look at people with empathy, and that allow an audience to see someone else's life with dignity"

Chloé Zhao, Director

"I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts"

Franco Zeffirelli, Director

"I think he was explicit that it was a slave labor situation, but I was not alarmed at that point, because there were so many tragedies involved in that war. That was the first time I had any indication that something was sort of strange"

Charles Guggenheim, Director

"It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've written many things in which the characters just remain inert"

Neil Jordan, Director

"The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion or delusion"

Derek Jarman, Director

"I think that, I'm sure there are gonna be some teachers who are very entrenched in the system, who are going to buy in to what they're being told, as to what the kids are being fed"

Morgan Spurlock, Director

"My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them"

Lasse Hallstrom, Director

"We have the notion that we exist, but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get"

Stan Brakhage, Director

"When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical"

Barbet Schroeder, Director

"Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear we're going down a rabbit hole once again - and if people can stop and think and reflect on some of the ideas and issues in this movie, perhaps I've done some damn good here!"

Errol Morris, Director

"You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates"

Werner Herzog, Director

"Don't be told something is impossible. There's always a way"

Robert Rodriguez, Director

"The quality of CGI, audiences are now so used to it. They don't know what is CGI and what is real"

Jan de Bont, Director

"A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director that I've admired knew exactly what he wanted to do. They didn't sit there and think about it"

John Milius, Director

"Anybody who is a fan of any team is going to recognize themselves in this"

Peter Farrelly, Director

"Commitment is the enemy of resistance, for it is the serious promise to press on, to get up, no matter how many times you are knocked down"

David McNally, Director

"In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them"

Ang Lee, Director

"When the movie's done, you talk about either the score or source music over a particular scene: what might work. You just throw a piece of music over the scene, and we both listen to it"

Ethan Coen, Director

"I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger"

Karel Reisz, Director

"I think sport in general affects what people see in movies. I always try to explain to people in Hollywood that we have to make movies more like sport because, in sport, everything can happen and it's so much better than movies in some ways"

Roland Emmerich, Director

"To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision"

Jane Campion, Director

"The first work of the director is to set a mood so that the actor's work can take place, so that the actor can create. And in order to do that, you have to communicate, communicate with the actors. And direction is about communication on all levels"

William Friedkin, Director

"I've been to Paris, France, and I've been to Paris Paramount. Paris Paramount is better"

Ernst Lubitsch, Director

"I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will"

Paul Thomas Anderson, Director

"I was trying to talk about where we are right now as a society, and talk about the fear we all live in, and certainly since 9-11, how it's affected us and the world"

Paul Haggis, Director

"I think the concept of the sea is very important"

Alejandro Amenabar, Director

"I think you're only free if you're working on very low or huge money"

George A. Romero, Director

"One of the things that wrong with pictures today, I think, is that so many of the people making them started out wanting to"

Peter Bogdanovich, Director

"You know, OJ was a really nice guy, and he knew his lines. He was nice to everybody on the set. He got to be a better actor, I thought, with every movie"

David Zucker, Director

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