Famous quotes by Directors

"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet"

Woody Allen, Director

"Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable"

Woody Allen, Director

"I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens"

Woody Allen, Director

"My fear is that the Tea Party gets a charismatic leader. Because all they're selling is fear and anger. And that's all Hitler sold. 'I'm angry and I'm frightened, and you should hate that guy over there.' And that's what they're doing"

Rob Reiner, Director

"The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes"

Stanley Kubrick, Director

"To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it's for them"

Michel Hazanavicius, Director

"A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there"

Spike Lee, Director

"We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema"

Pedro Almodovar, Director

"Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics"

Ken Burns, Director

"I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all"

David Lynch, Director

"You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me"

Nicolas Roeg, Director

"And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography"

Nicolas Roeg, Director

"When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality"

Julie Taymor, Director

"It was immediately apparent that it was full of tricky ingredients to balance. In fact, I found it very intriguing. What held me back from saying yes to the producer was that I wasn't sure who could play Truman"

Peter Weir, Director

"I have directed good actors and have gone through the process which is more detailed in theater in a way. You have to get people to stay for two or three hours in a performance. They need more talk and rehearsal than in films"

Julie Taymor, Director

"It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thing better than having a great actor, which is having a great actor who's never done what you're asking him to do. He's hungry to get out of the trailer every day and hungry to test himself"

Sam Mendes, Director

"I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories"

Zhang Yimou, Director

"Terrorism has no religion, no nationality, and no humanity. We must all work together to fight this evil"

Moustapha Akkad, Director

"A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around Australia"

Phillip Noyce, Director

"In a relationship you have to open yourself up"

Neil LaBute, Director

"An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it"

Robert Bresson, Director

"Isn't that the most perverse thing you've ever heard?"

John Waters, Director

"The big difference is the size of the crew and the flexibility of shooting because of the size. I mean, it's crazy. So you can't improvise, you cannot suddenly do something that comes to mind, whereas in a small production you have much more flexibility"

Bille August, Director

"But I think Barry Sonnenfeld let his ego go out of control. He told me in a meeting that he had to do something to make it his film"

Robert Conrad, Director

"There were scenes that just for length purposes, and knowing that the attention span of kids is not great, don't make it much longer than about 90 minutes"

John Badham, Director

"Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food; frequently there must be a beverage"

Woody Allen, Director

"Who bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen"

Woody Allen, Director

"It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens"

Woody Allen, Director

"I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown"

Woody Allen, Director

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