Famous quotes by Directors

"I can't do a film after having debated it. I am unable to do a film while discussing it with my team. I issue directives. I do not achieve it otherwise"

Hayao Miyazaki, Director

"When a man is shooting a handgun, it's just like he is shooting because that's his job, and he has no other choice. It's no good. When a girl is shooting a handgun, it's really something"

Hayao Miyazaki, Director

"The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot not support the policies of his government"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more, and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities, and spent time with the people, and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war, and talked about why they had come back"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"I dream for a living"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change; you change"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up, and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"When I grow up, I still want to be a director"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs"

Nicolas Roeg, Director

"They think something's gone wrong, but in Don't Look Now, for instance, one scene was made by a mistake. It's the scene where Donald Sutherland goes to look for the policeman who's investigating the two women"

Nicolas Roeg, Director

"There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would struggle this way and that to find the perfect moment. God has made every angle on that beautiful, and I felt that tremendously"

Nicolas Roeg, Director

"The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors"

Nicolas Roeg, Director

"Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I've never storyboarded anything. I like the idea of chance. What makes God laugh is people who make plans!"

Nicolas Roeg, Director

"Movies are not scripts - Movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre"

Nicolas Roeg, Director

"Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates"

Nicolas Roeg, Director

"In life, we all learn from everyone"

Nicolas Roeg, Director

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