Famous quotes by Directors

"God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed"

Luis Bunuel, Director

"When you're with your wife, you don't say I love you to your wife every day, but the ways you look at her and your actions are another way to communicate. Don't focus on dialogue, only focus on what you're expressing"

Michel Hazanavicius, Director

"I try to respect the rules of the silent movies, and I tried to make signification to make sense, and also the crew were very good, and the fact that we shot in LA in the real Hollywood studios and houses. We shot in the bed of Mary Pickford, and you cannot be any more accurate than that, so that helped a lot"

Michel Hazanavicius, Director

"I always loved silent movies. I was not a specialist, but I loved them. And when I started directing, I became really fascinated by the format - how it works, the device of the silent movie. It's not the same form of expression as a talkie. The lack of sounds makes you participate in the storytelling"

Michel Hazanavicius, Director

"Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way become inscribed in the spectator's memory"

Krzysztof Kieslowski, Director

"Sometimes when an actor says something almost perfect, but you know you have to edit it, if you tell them to change something immediately, it will come out great"

Michel Hazanavicius, Director

"I think we are at the very beginning of high changes, not only in terms of digital film, but in the way the movies will be screened, whether they'll be screened on phones, on computers - on everything"

Michel Hazanavicius, Director

"I have no problem being with people of different nationalities"

Krzysztof Kieslowski, Director

"Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one"

Krzysztof Kieslowski, Director

"For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you"

Krzysztof Kieslowski, Director

"We're always looking at this love through the eyes of the person who is suffering because of this love"

Krzysztof Kieslowski, Director

"The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time"

Luis Bunuel, Director

"Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether"

Luis Bunuel, Director

"This is the problem with language, and this is what makes silent movies fun, because the connection with them, me or the audience is not with the language. There's no question of interpretation of what we are saying, it's just about feeling. You create your own story"

Michel Hazanavicius, Director

"The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad"

Krzysztof Kieslowski, Director

"Of course, I'd like to get beyond the concrete. But it's really difficult. Very difficult"

Krzysztof Kieslowski, Director

"Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?"

Krzysztof Kieslowski, Director

"If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead"

Luis Bunuel, Director

"When you do not have the dialogue to explain things, you will use everything to show and to tell the story. I think that this is what makes you believe that it is impeccable"

Michel Hazanavicius, Director

"A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made"

Luis Bunuel, Director

"Sure, I watched a lot of Hollywood movies. Maybe I've seen more Hollywood movies than French movies"

Michel Hazanavicius, Director

"It's about storytelling. The story is told through images. So with the cast, I had to make sure that the emotions were readable without sound... I know some great actors, if you turn off the sound, you don't really know what they're saying"

Michel Hazanavicius, Director

"The fact that I made a special movie with an old-fashioned style - even if it's a mix between with modern and old-fashioned things - must mean I feel both ways about change. In a way I'm resisting, but in a way adapting myself to the times"

Michel Hazanavicius, Director

"But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director. Whether I'm French or Australian or whatever, it's really not important"

Michel Hazanavicius, Director

"In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival"

Luis Bunuel, Director

"Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers"

Luis Bunuel, Director

"When we were making the movie, winning awards for it wasn't the point at all. We didn't even have an American distributor"

Michel Hazanavicius, Director

"It's just incredible. When you're French, coming from a non-English language country, you don't even dream about Oscar recognition or nominations. It's just beyond the dream. It's something very, very special and unique. It's the highest recognition any filmmaker could dream of"

Michel Hazanavicius, Director

"Hollywood is much more than America. Hollywood belongs to all of the planet"

Michel Hazanavicius, Director

"Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies"

Ridley Scott, Director

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