Famous quotes by Directors

"You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas"

Stanley Kubrick, Director

"It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes, and not even be able to think about it with any sense, and yet not be able to think about anything else"

Stanley Kubrick, Director

"It's a mistake to confuse pity with love"

Stanley Kubrick, Director

"What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker?"

Stanley Kubrick, Director

"There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die"

Stanley Kubrick, Director

"A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper"

Stanley Kubrick, Director

"Any time you take a chance, you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk, because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job"

Stanley Kubrick, Director

"Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me"

Federico Fellini, Director

"When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful"

Francois Truffaut, Director

"I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job"

Francois Truffaut, Director

"Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets"

Federico Fellini, Director

"I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?"

Federico Fellini, Director

"The film of tomorrow will be an act of love"

Francois Truffaut, Director

"Is the cinema more important than life?"

Francois Truffaut, Director

"God may not play dice, but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again"

Federico Fellini, Director

"All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography"

Federico Fellini, Director

"In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs"

Francois Truffaut, Director

"Taste is a result of a thousand distastes"

Francois Truffaut, Director

"Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings"

Francois Truffaut, Director

"You exist only in what you do"

Federico Fellini, Director

"No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite"

Federico Fellini, Director

"Fate is written in the face"

Federico Fellini, Director

"Experience is what you get while looking for something else"

Federico Fellini, Director

"The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure"

Francois Truffaut, Director

"Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils, and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be"

Federico Fellini, Director

"I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself"

Francois Truffaut, Director

"Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it"

Federico Fellini, Director

"A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself"

Federico Fellini, Director

"A good opening and a good ending make for a good film, provide they come close together"

Federico Fellini, Director

"Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award"

Billy Wilder, Director

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