Famous quotes by Directors

"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

"I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I'd had the money to shoot another ten days"

Martin Scorsese, Director

"I love the look of planes and the idea of how a plane flies. The more I learn about it, the better I feel; while I still may not like it, I have a sense of what is really happening"

Martin Scorsese, Director

"I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways"

Martin Scorsese, Director

"I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest"

Martin Scorsese, Director

"I grew up within Italian-American neighborhoods, everybody was coming into the house all the time, kids running around, that sort of stuff, so when I finally got into my own area, so to speak, to make films, I still carried on"

Martin Scorsese, Director

"I don't agree with everything he did in his life, but we're dealing with this Howard Hughes, at this point. And also ultimately the flaw in Howard Hughes, the curse, so to speak"

Martin Scorsese, Director

"I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind"

Martin Scorsese, Director

"I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew"

Martin Scorsese, Director

"What the Dalai Lama had to resolve was whether to stay in Tibet or leave. He wanted to stay, but staying would have meant the total destruction of Tibet, because he would have died and that would have ripped the heart out of his people"

Martin Scorsese, Director

"There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut"

Martin Scorsese, Director

"The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits"

Martin Scorsese, Director

"Now, more than ever, we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this"

Martin Scorsese, Director

"More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down"

Martin Scorsese, Director

"It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world, and if it does, then only temporarily"

Martin Scorsese, Director

"It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods"

Martin Scorsese, Director

"If it's a modern-day story dealing with certain ethnic groups, I think I could open up certain scenes for improvisation, while staying within the structure of the script"

Martin Scorsese, Director

"I'm very phobic about flying, but I'm also drawn to it"

Martin Scorsese, Director

"You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches"

Ken Burns, Director

"The stories from 1975 on are not finished, and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice"

Ken Burns, Director

"Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl"

Ken Burns, Director

"I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style"

Ken Burns, Director

"With this silent film, I wanted to hide what was going on in the clinic. I wanted to cover it up in the best cinematic way and in an entertaining manner"

Pedro Almodovar, Director

"I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness"

Pedro Almodovar, Director

"I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement"

Ken Burns, Director

"I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that it's extremely predictable, it's a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again and there's a certain musical virtuosity involved in it"

Ken Burns, Director

"I subscribe to William Faulkner's view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now"

Ken Burns, Director

"History's just been made for sale to an inside deal"

Ken Burns, Director

"By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of jazz"

Ken Burns, Director

"I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently"

Pedro Almodovar, Director

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