Famous quotes by Directors

"One of the reasons to do documentaries is that there's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do"

Michael Apted, Director

"I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic"

James Broughton, Director

"There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith"

James Cameron, Director

"Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants, and that promotes their good health"

Robert Evans, Director

"The dynamic is extremely similar to Gremlins and the hero is very similar, plus the small town atmosphere. It really is, in a way, the third Gremlins movie"

Joe Dante, Director

"I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it"

Brian De Palma, Director

"I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened"

Ted Demme, Director

"I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible"

Robert Benton, Director

"I'm not a politician; I'm lucky to be a filmmaker and to be able to express myself through the films I make"

Mathieu Kassovitz, Director

"Well, that was certainly - to me, until we could film in Charles' room, I didn't even want to bother filming anything else. And in fact, I did hold off and that was the first thing we filmed"

Terry Zwigoff, Director

"The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second"

Jean-Jacques Annaud, Director

"When you worked in a studio, it was the studio system that you kind of missed because it was a big, big family. I mean, MGM had 5,000 people working a day there. You miss it"

George Sidney, Director

"I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust"

Edward Dmytryk, Director

"When I come to London, I always like to see what's playing at the NFT"

Walter Salles, Director

"A lot of comedians, when they have a bad gig, will blame everything but themselves. They'll blame the crowd, or the room was wrong, it had a weird vibe, or the promoter promoted a weird atmosphere"

Allan Carr, Director

"There's one thing which I hate about color films... people who use up a lot of their despairing producer's money by working in the laboratory to bring out the dominant hues, or to make color films where there isn't any color"

Claude Chabrol, Director

"I worked for UFA as a set designer, you know"

Douglas Sirk, Director

"And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea what I saw, all I know is that I left the theater floating six feet above the ground"

Jacques Rivette, Director

"So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally"

Alain Resnais, Director

"Tender Mercies is a very low-budget film, but it was a huge budget compared to anything I had done in Australia. My fee for Tender Mercies was something like five times all of my Australian films combined"

Bruce Beresford, Director

"Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My Australian mother, Meredith Hooper, was invited in late 2007 by some Australian friends to make up a token Australian audience in a tiny fringe theater play reading of an unproduced, unrehearsed play called 'The King's Speech'"

Tom Hooper, Director

"I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks"

Bernardo Bertolucci, Director

"It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations"

Danny Boyle, Director

"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative"

Woody Allen, Director

"If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank"

Woody Allen, Director

"Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies"

Woody Allen, Director

"I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens"

Woody Allen, Director

"I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own"

Woody Allen, Director

"It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more"

Woody Allen, Director

"It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune"

Woody Allen, Director

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