Famous quotes by Directors

"I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story"

Pedro Almodovar, Director

"Hospitals are places that you have to stay in for a long time, even if you are a visitor. Time doesn't seem to pass in the same way in hospitals as it does in other places. Time seems to almost not exist in the same way as it does in other places"

Pedro Almodovar, Director

"Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America"

Ken Burns, Director

"I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could, and in the New York Times, every single day, reading their jazz reviews even though I didn't put them in the films. I wanted to know what is going on"

Ken Burns, Director

"I never, ever want to apologize for a film. If it's bad, I'll say it's my fault. And that's what I can say so far in all the films that I've done, that if you don't like it, it's entirely my fault"

Ken Burns, Director

"In our film profession, you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage"

Frank Capra, Director

"Compassion is a two way street"

Frank Capra, Director

"In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?'"

Ken Burns, Director

"I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content"

Ken Burns, Director

"I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever"

Ken Burns, Director

"All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres"

Pedro Almodovar, Director

"Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they are much more spectacular to talk about. I don't know why I am more interested in women, because I don't go to any psychiatrists, and I don't want to know why"

Pedro Almodovar, Director

"Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are going to be. When I was moving around with the lens, I discovered things that the naked eye would not have"

Pedro Almodovar, Director

"Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket... the least understood and the least noticed"

Frank Capra, Director

"The way I work, the interview never becomes larger than the person being interviewed"

Ken Burns, Director

"I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance"

Ken Burns, Director

"Whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite"

Frank Capra, Director

"I have made all my films for my children, with the exception of my first film, because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge"

Ken Burns, Director

"I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities!"

Ken Burns, Director

"I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts"

Ken Burns, Director

"A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm"

Ken Burns, Director

"The 1980s really ended for me in 1992 with the film Kika"

Pedro Almodovar, Director

"The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that the second part of the film is full of tenderness and emotion"

Pedro Almodovar, Director

"The Flower of My Secret is definitely more based in true emotions. I also wanted to make something more realistic, but not naturalistic or simple"

Pedro Almodovar, Director

"Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities"

Pedro Almodovar, Director

"My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them!"

Frank Capra, Director

"One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes"

Ken Burns, Director

"I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head"

Ken Burns, Director

"I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible amount of technique they have. But there's very little that I think satisfies you intellectually or emotionally"

Ken Burns, Director

"I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films"

Ken Burns, Director

Page 28 of 121

See the complete list of director people