Famous quotes by Directors

"You ought to love what you're doing because, especially in a movie, over time, you really will start to hate it"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"Ten Days That Shook The World, by Eisenstein, I went to see it, and I was so impressed with this film, so impressed with what cinema could do"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it's not a surprise that all of us are in some form of the arts"

Spike Lee, Director

"Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it"

Spike Lee, Director

"There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic"

Spike Lee, Director

"There's a lot of Americans, black and white, who think that we've arrived where we need to be, and nothing else needs to be done, and affirmative action needs to be dismantled"

Spike Lee, Director

"Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner"

Spike Lee, Director

"Right now a lot of people are still choosing to go to Toronto instead of shooting in New York City, something I haven't done and something I hope I'll never have to do"

Spike Lee, Director

"My cousin Malcolm Lee is also a filmmaker"

Spike Lee, Director

"A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there"

Spike Lee, Director

"I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie"

Jean-Luc Godard, Director

"A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order"

Jean-Luc Godard, Director

"To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body. Both go together, they can't be separated"

Jean-Luc Godard, Director

"Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion"

Jean-Luc Godard, Director

"The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea"

Jean-Luc Godard, Director

"I can't really envision a time when I'm not shooting something"

Martin Scorsese, Director

"I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes out when you get me on camera"

Martin Scorsese, Director

"I also saw the Dalai Lama a few times"

Martin Scorsese, Director

"Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was"

Martin Scorsese, Director

"Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt"

Martin Scorsese, Director

"And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things"

Martin Scorsese, Director

"I'm going to be 60, and I'm almost used to myself"

Martin Scorsese, Director

"I was born in 1942, so I was mainly aware of Howard Hughes' name on RKO Radio Pictures"

Martin Scorsese, Director

"I think what happened there was just the budget would be too big to build these sets because nothing really exists here in New York of that period; you have to build it all"

Martin Scorsese, Director

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