Famous quotes by Directors

"I think it's the tragedy of our time that we're not aware of the affect of the manner in which we've adopted tools. Those tools have become who we are"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"But in fact, if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"History has been the history of warfare"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"So, to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"I think there's an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"These films, however, have ambiguity built into them, because it's too easy in film to make a strident work of propaganda or advertising, which are really the same thing anyway, meaning the message is unmistakable"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"In the order I was in, each brother takes five vows, one of which is teaching the poor gratuitously. As a young person I was seized by this idea of social justice and I wanted very much to follow my vow of teaching the poor gratuitously"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"It is very easy to make clear what you want a film to say, but I did not wish to engage in overt propaganda, even for the right cause. I wanted to create an experience through the films, something where people could have the freedom of their own response to them"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"All tools have intrinsic politics, and technology is the tool of now"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"There's always been a lot of pressure and tension on the line. If 'Pi' didn't work out, I have no idea what my career would be. I don't think I would have gotten another shot at it. If 'Requiem for a Dream' didn't work out, they would have called me a 'one-hit wonder with a sophomore slump'"

Darren Aronofsky, Director

"I was a TV junkie as a kid. I am the Sesame Street generation"

Darren Aronofsky, Director

"I only want to work with actors that really get it and make it work. I didn't want it to be a star-driven thing anymore"

Darren Aronofsky, Director

"Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching for a project, and sniffing around, 'The Wrestler' fit right in"

Darren Aronofsky, Director

"If you ask any person on this crew what they think of Hugh Jackman, they'll admit they've never seen anything like it. I'll give him an emotional note and he'll hit it every time"

Darren Aronofsky, Director

"I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to choose the road that I have the most passion on because then you can never really blame yourself for making the wrong choices. You can always say you're following your passion"

Darren Aronofsky, Director

"Turning 30 was when my parents both got cancer and were fighting it and beat it, but their mortality started to get to me. Everything wasn't as hunky-dory like it was"

Darren Aronofsky, Director

"I think video games and that stuff should be as violent as possible, but age-appropriate. It should be realistic. When it's not realistic, you run into kids running around shooting people and not realizing the consequences"

Darren Aronofsky, Director

"I hope that Requiem is better than Pi. I hope that Pi is better than my student films, and I'm hoping that I'm getting better as I get older"

Darren Aronofsky, Director

"I couldn't sleep one night, and I was sitting in my office, and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker"

Darren Aronofsky, Director

"These wrestlers aren't organized. They have no union, no pension and no insurance. You meet wrestler after wrestler who sold out Madison Square Garden ten years ago, basically running on fumes today. There's a lot of drama there"

Darren Aronofsky, Director

"I'd like to do a lot of different stuff. I think it's important as a creative person to keep challenging yourself and keep doing new stuff. If you end up trying to repeat yourself, it's death. It just becomes boring and takes the passion out of it. You gotta find stories and characters that you really want to hang out with"

Darren Aronofsky, Director

"At the end of Requiem, all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back"

Darren Aronofsky, Director

"I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was, no matter how low it gets, something good will come along - something always comes out of that dark period"

Darren Aronofsky, Director

"Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second"

Darren Aronofsky, Director

"When I go to movies, I generally want to be taken to another world"

Darren Aronofsky, Director

"I'm not a comic book guy at all"

Darren Aronofsky, Director

"In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something"

Krzysztof Kieslowski, Director

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