Famous quotes by Directors

"I was very glad later when I was directing that I wasn't in the hands of a cinematographer and hoping that he would do it well. I would know what he was doing, and we could discuss how that scene would look"

Nicolas Roeg, Director

"Fear has many faces"

Nicolas Roeg, Director

"Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't"

Nicolas Roeg, Director

"But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now"

Nicolas Roeg, Director

"Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar"

Nicolas Roeg, Director

"You know, I went to Oberlin. At that time, grades were - you elected to have them or not. It was all of that era where grades were out the window. But I did very well in school. I didn't really study the arts; I practiced the arts"

Julie Taymor, Director

"To do that, I try and keep myself in pretty good shape physically, and I try to lead my life in such a way that I'll be able to be as strong at the end of the movie as I am in the beginning"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"A disk unbeknownst to the director can go to the producer in another city or in another office and that producer can edit behind the director's back much easier than in the old days. Since these dailies are now put on videotape, more kinds of people have access to dailies"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice"

Wim Wenders, Director

"I'm getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s"

Wim Wenders, Director

"Butte was once a grand city. To me, that city is like one big stage for Edward Hopper. You could put your camera anywhere, and you felt you were looking at his paintings"

Wim Wenders, Director

"Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before"

Kathryn Bigelow, Director

"One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them or east vs west, which was a by-product of the Cold War"

Kathryn Bigelow, Director

"I did a pilot for Anything But Love in 1988 that didn't sell"

Kathryn Bigelow, Director

"You program music with an image and then people are desensitized"

Julie Taymor, Director

"What I don't have in theater is editing"

Julie Taymor, Director

"One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it"

Julie Taymor, Director

"There are so many effects and so many things that are done digitally now that it's so hard for the director to really control the process, because there are more and more experts that come in"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"It's very eclectic, the way one chooses subjects in the movie business, especially in the commercial movie business. You need to develop material yourself or material is presented to you as an assignment to direct"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"First, speaking for myself, I don't want to ever be in a position where I'm telling other directors how to make movies, because I don't think it's any of my business"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"And I kind of feel that I have a responsibility to the people that invest their time and money with me to show up on the set every day and do the best of which I am capable"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"I'd love to have another film to go on to. I'm in the mood to work. But I have to be patient, you know, to find that particular kind of project. Occasionally I'll write one myself if I can summon up the energy"

Peter Weir, Director

"Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money"

Wim Wenders, Director

"Many of the critics today get airline tickets, hotel accommodation, bags, beautiful photographs, gifts and other expenses paid by the distributors, and then are supposed to write serious articles about the movie"

Wim Wenders, Director

"It's very hard to find critics or a magazine today that will publish material that is genuinely independent and written without any concern about being cut off some distributor's list, or not be invited or flown into screenings"

Wim Wenders, Director

"I don't believe in censorship in any form"

Kathryn Bigelow, Director

"You think about taking audiences on a journey"

Sam Mendes, Director

"I am, to be quite honest, sick of hero stories"

Julie Taymor, Director

"Movies are something people see all over the world, because there is a certain need for it"

Wim Wenders, Director

"The accolades usually come when you're dead or too old to get a job"

John Frankenheimer, Director

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