Famous quotes by Directors

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time, and I learnt some great dialogue"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"I want to have the fun of doing anime, and I love anime, but I can't do storyboards because I can't really draw and that's what they live and die on"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"Violence is one of the most fun things to watch"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer!"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"The only thing I can do is type. I learned that when I was 13"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. I felt that if I wanted to commune with the public, I should best do so through the language of image. It's a conscious embrace of a contradiction"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"Now having said that, I realize that releasing a film in the real world is like trying to get General Motors to release a handmade car"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"In terms of the feeling of the piece, I can't think about what people are gonna think about it, what are the critics gonna say, I'm trying to bring some resolution, and realize that myself. It's a struggle; it's a process that gets us this"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

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