Famous quotes by Directors

"I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to know about this thing called the United States of America, you have to know about the Civil War"

Ken Burns, Director

"It's a pity that I can never really enjoy my movies because, after the mixing, your capacity as a spectator just disappears. I have to think about what I felt just before the mixing"

Pedro Almodovar, Director

"In fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not only the presidents but all the ministers of the government!"

Pedro Almodovar, Director

"I think it's a change that I did not intend at the time, but it is clear that, from The Flower of My Secret on, there is a change in my films. A lot of the journalists have very generously attributed this to my growing maturity"

Pedro Almodovar, Director

"Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women"

Pedro Almodovar, Director

"After the enormous success of All About My Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly the same place that I used to be before. I wanted to show that all of the success had not changed my perception"

Pedro Almodovar, Director

"There's an electrical thing about movies"

Oliver Stone, Director

"I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling"

Oliver Stone, Director

"I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience"

Oliver Stone, Director

"I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take"

Oliver Stone, Director

"I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation"

Oliver Stone, Director

"Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World"

Oliver Stone, Director

"A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know"

Oliver Stone, Director

"In any film there's always a historical implication"

Oliver Stone, Director

"I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily"

Oliver Stone, Director

"I'd love to do historical pictures more, but I don't know if I can"

Oliver Stone, Director

"I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history"

Oliver Stone, Director

"I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history"

Oliver Stone, Director

"One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that"

Oliver Stone, Director

"But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy"

Oliver Stone, Director

"I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand, and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it"

Oliver Stone, Director

"I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future"

Oliver Stone, Director

"I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power"

Oliver Stone, Director

"I study history in order to give an interpretation"

Oliver Stone, Director

"Coming Home had been made before, and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies"

Oliver Stone, Director

"It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism"

Oliver Stone, Director

"If anything, if you can get somebody interested in something and get them excited, that's great. You should be praised for having opened the debate and having asked the right questions!"

Oliver Stone, Director

"I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious"

Oliver Stone, Director

"I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations"

Oliver Stone, Director

"One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia"

Oliver Stone, Director

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