Famous quotes by Directors

"I think I have a finely tuned sense of humor. I think just being around it and growing up in it... My dad and Mel Brooks and Norman Lear. These are the people I grew up around"

Rob Reiner, Director

"The problem we have right now in Washington is we don't have the face of a leader"

Rob Reiner, Director

"I decided to not just be about protesting or speaking out against certain things, but actually trying to get things done. That has been tremendously fulfilling for me"

Rob Reiner, Director

"Whether it's films or painting or music or writing a book, the greatest experience is being able to express yourself and what you've gone through, trying to figure out a way to make it into something that's artistic that people can connect with"

Rob Reiner, Director

"I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is, but the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents because we know that the first years truly last forever"

Rob Reiner, Director

"People can be ignorant and still have loving, human qualities"

Rob Reiner, Director

"I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life"

Rob Reiner, Director

"We agreed that we cannot let personal political attacks get in the way of doing the very best we can for California's children"

Rob Reiner, Director

"Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and attachment to loving people early in life"

Rob Reiner, Director

"I pass the test that says a man who isn't a socialist at 20 has no heart, and a man who is a socialist at 40 has no head"

William J. Casey, Director

"There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"In films, murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up!"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?' I say, 'Your salary'"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"Self-plagiarism is style"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle"

Stanley Kubrick, Director

"Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all"

Stanley Kubrick, Director

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