Famous quotes by Directors

"I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful"

Spike Lee, Director

"I think it is very important that films make people look at what they've forgotten"

Spike Lee, Director

"I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker"

Spike Lee, Director

"I like to work with the same people when I can, and you want to get people with the same interests that you have, and the same aesthetic"

Spike Lee, Director

"I get offered to do stuff where the money's nice, but it's not something I want to do - I get offered a lot of commercials, too"

Spike Lee, Director

"I don't dictate, you don't dictate to Stevie Wonder, not successfully"

Spike Lee, Director

"I always give the example, if you turn on the radio today, black radio, Lenny Kravitz is not black. Bob Marley wasn't black: In the beginning, only white college stations played Bob Marley"

Spike Lee, Director

"Fight the power that be. Fight the power"

Spike Lee, Director

"Everything I do is always scrutinised. But that's all I'll say about that"

Spike Lee, Director

"Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest"

Spike Lee, Director

"I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn't have a lot of friends. Theater really represented camaraderie"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and, and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"George Lucas doesn't have the most physical stamina. He was so unhappy making Star Wars that he just vowed he'd never do it again"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son thing, and you kind of worked your way up"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"Art depends on luck and talent"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is different. That's one of the reasons George Lucas never directed again"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

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