Famous quotes by Directors

"When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year"

Ridley Scott, Director

"What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be"

Ridley Scott, Director

"That's part of the policy: To keep switching gears"

Ridley Scott, Director

"Some people like to do everything, always the same thing. That's another way: To do the same thing"

Ridley Scott, Director

"Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict"

Ridley Scott, Director

"People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie, but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at"

Ridley Scott, Director

"My career seems to be a career of non-specific subjects which are all over the place"

Ridley Scott, Director

"MPC, Moving Picture Company, they're really excellent, they did the majority of the effects"

Ridley Scott, Director

"It's everything and I always make decisions about the cast"

Ridley Scott, Director

"If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home"

Ridley Scott, Director

"I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial"

Ridley Scott, Director

"I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another, where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different"

Ridley Scott, Director

"I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do"

Ridley Scott, Director

"I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny"

Ridley Scott, Director

"I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development"

Ridley Scott, Director

"I don't ever blink, honestly"

Ridley Scott, Director

"I do a pretty good job at casting, actually"

Ridley Scott, Director

"Good FBI officers are not noticeable. You would never look at them"

Ridley Scott, Director

"Digital is a different world because you are sitting at home and a hi tech piece of equipment today is within reach of most people, so they are watching a pretty hi tech version of whatever you've done"

Ridley Scott, Director

"But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it!"

Ridley Scott, Director

"Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future, and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it"

Ridley Scott, Director

"And anyway, it's only movies. To stop me, I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head"

Ridley Scott, Director

"A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie"

Ridley Scott, Director

"When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism"

Spike Lee, Director

"I'd like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy and cherish. Culture is for everybody"

Spike Lee, Director

"I think my work shows that I love women. I understand where these types of criticisms are coming from because black people have been so dogged out in the media, they're just extra sensitive"

Spike Lee, Director

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