Famous quotes by Directors

"I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed"

Oliver Stone, Director

"You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for"

David Lynch, Director

"The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead"

David Lynch, Director

"Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story - the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and to spend more time there"

David Lynch, Director

"Somewhere in talking and rehearsing, there is a magical moment where actors catch a current, they're on the right road. If they really catch it, then whatever they do from then on is correct and it all comes out of them from that point on"

David Lynch, Director

"Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way"

David Lynch, Director

"My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me"

David Lynch, Director

"I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now. I don' t find anything beautiful or unique to the medium, and the only thing you can do on TV that you can't do in film is make a continuing story - which is so cool!"

David Lynch, Director

"Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd"

David Lynch, Director

"Wilshire Boulevard... It has no smell to it"

Jean Renoir, Director

"What is attempted in these film is, of course, a synthesis. But it can be seen by someone who has his feet in both cultures. Someone who will bring to bear on the films' involvement and detachment in equal measure"

Satyajit Ray, Director

"Sometimes a director is making three films. Perhaps he is shooting a film in Madras and a film in Bombay and he can't leave Madras as some shooting has to be done, so he directs by telephone. The shooting takes place. On schedule"

Satyajit Ray, Director

"Particularly in the final stages, I always find that I'm rushed. It's dangerous when you're rushed in the editing stage. Most of my early films are flawed in the cutting"

Satyajit Ray, Director

"At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music"

Satyajit Ray, Director

"I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music"

Satyajit Ray, Director

"I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare it"

Satyajit Ray, Director

"You cannot go beyond a certain limit in your expenditure if you want to bring back money from your local market, which is very small after Pakistan"

Satyajit Ray, Director

"The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days"

Satyajit Ray, Director

"Most of the top actors and actresses may be working in ten or twelve films at the same time, so they will give one director two hours and maybe shoot in Bombay in the morning and Madras in the evening. It happens"

Satyajit Ray, Director

"There is a ban on Indian films in Pakistan, so that's half of our market gone"

Satyajit Ray, Director

"When I'm shooting on location, you get ideas on the spot - new angles. You make not major changes but important modifications, that you can't do on a set. I do that because you have to be economical"

Satyajit Ray, Director

"Well, the Bombay film wasn't always like how it is now. It did have a local industry. There were realistic films made on local scenes. But it gradually changed over the years"

Satyajit Ray, Director

"Ever since Two Daughters, I've been composing my own music"

Satyajit Ray, Director

"There's always some room for improvisation"

Satyajit Ray, Director

"It was only after Pather Panchali had some success at home that I decided to do a second part. But I didn't want to do the same kind of film again, so I made a musical"

Satyajit Ray, Director

"I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories or novels, and I find the long short story ideal for adaptation"

Satyajit Ray, Director

"I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time"

Satyajit Ray, Director

"My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful"

Satyajit Ray, Director

"When I write an original story, I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century"

Satyajit Ray, Director

"I wouldn't mind taking a rest for three or four months, but I have to keep on making films for the sake of my crew, who just wait for the next film because they're not on a fixed salary"

Satyajit Ray, Director

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