Famous quotes by Directors

"A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later"

Stanley Kubrick, Director

Stanley Kubrick

"The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has"

Francois Truffaut, Director

Francois Truffaut

"It's not that we use technology, we live technology"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

Godfrey Reggio

"Thank God I'm an atheist"

Luis Bunuel, Director

"Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out"

Martin Scorsese, Director

Martin Scorsese

"Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that"

Oliver Stone, Director

"This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top"

David Lynch, Director

"Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same"

Hayao Miyazaki, Director

"One person's crazyness is another person's reality"

Tim Burton, Director

"A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes"

Howard Hawks, Director

"I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead"

Woody Allen, Director

Woody Allen

"I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia"

Woody Allen, Director

Woody Allen

"Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon"

Woody Allen, Director

Woody Allen

"I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear"

Woody Allen, Director

Woody Allen

"The idea of playing a part where I get to wear a completely undetectable hairpiece... You can't walk away from that"

Rob Reiner, Director

Rob Reiner

"Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

Alfred Hitchcock

"The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes"

Stanley Kubrick, Director

Stanley Kubrick

"Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs"

Federico Fellini, Director

Federico Fellini

"Film lovers are sick people"

Francois Truffaut, Director

Francois Truffaut

"One's too many, and a hundred's not enough"

Billy Wilder, Director

Billy Wilder

"Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world"

Jean-Luc Godard, Director

"I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

Francis Ford Coppola

"There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard"

Martin Scorsese, Director

Martin Scorsese

"I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion"

Pedro Almodovar, Director

"Film is one of the three universal languages: the other two, mathematics and music"

Frank Capra, Director

"I think they quite like me when I work because I'm one of the safer directors to back, because even if my films don't bring their costs in back home, once they're shown outside of India they manage to cover the costs"

Satyajit Ray, Director

"My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one"

Kathryn Bigelow, Director

Kathryn Bigelow

"Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!"

Patrice Leconte, Director

"When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film"

Michelangelo Antonioni, Director

"Seventy percent of success in life is showing up"

Woody Allen, Director

Woody Allen

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