Famous quotes by Directors

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

Kathryn Bigelow, Director

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

Woody Allen, Director

"When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man"

Stanley Kubrick, Director

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

Frank Capra, Director

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

Martin Scorsese, Director

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

Martin Scorsese, Director

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

Oliver Stone, Director

"Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese"

Luis Bunuel, Director

"When you look at the early-'30s movies, like King Kong, the codes of acting are very similar to those of silent movies. In some of the silent movies - the good ones, the ones done by the best directors - the acting is very, very natural"

Michel Hazanavicius, Director

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

Hayao Miyazaki, Director

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

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"Always make the audience suffer as much as possible"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"Revenge is sweet and not fattening"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"Censorship is advertising paid by the government"

Federico Fellini, Director

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

Stanley Kubrick, Director

"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

"He has Van Gogh's ear for music"

Billy Wilder, Director

"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

"I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all"

David Lynch, 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

"Terrorism has no religion, no nationality, and no humanity. We must all work together to fight this evil"

Moustapha Akkad, Director

"But I think Barry Sonnenfeld let his ego go out of control. He told me in a meeting that he had to do something to make it his film"

Robert Conrad, Director

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

Woody Allen, Director

"Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there"

Woody Allen, Director

"Marriage is the death of hope"

Woody Allen, Director

"I failed to make the chess team because of my height"

Woody Allen, Director

"If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else"

Rob Reiner, Director

"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

"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

"Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world"

Jean-Luc Godard, Director

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