Famous quotes by Directors

"So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life is to listen well"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"I think that you can't make a movie without a script. But you also can't make movies without actors. You also can't make movies without technicians. And there has to be just one person in charge of everybody, and to me that one person is the director"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"I mean, this whole digital revolution is really eroding the director's importance on a movie because, number one, just from a practical standpoint, with floppy disks and the ability to put all of the film onto a disk, more people have access to the movie"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they can't act, but, by God, they all think they can edit"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry"

Julie Taymor, Director

"I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus"

Julie Taymor, Director

"National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word "industry" is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense"

Peter Weir, Director

"One of the first lessons you learn as an actor is to listen"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"If you don't cast well, you can be in real trouble"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"I sought Ben Affleck because I needed an everyman for this role. Ben appeals to men and women. He gives you a sense of intelligence, the notion of a guy who can think on his feet"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"Well, there's that girl on the Internet - although this isn't an example of someone who doesn't know they're on - but there's a girl on the Internet who posts one photograph every two minutes from her bedroom"

Peter Weir, Director

"Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look for bugs and things"

Peter Weir, Director

"Normally, as a director, you do look at other films and things that are relevant. But with this film, it became impossible because I became so aware of the camera placement"

Peter Weir, Director

"I've never been anywhere in my life like it and I only really noticed it when I returned to Los Angeles and then Berlin. Everybody is much better off in these places, there is not poverty like in Cuba, but everybody complains about things"

Wim Wenders, Director

"Any movie that has that spirit and says things can be changed is worth making"

Wim Wenders, Director

"Of course, the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema, but the real problem is the decay in film criticism"

Wim Wenders, Director

"For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it"

Wim Wenders, Director

"Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists"

Wim Wenders, Director

"Everything is entertainment; criticism is now entertainment and it seems that the French directors have woken up one day and suddenly realised that they were not backed up any more"

Wim Wenders, Director

"Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes"

Wim Wenders, Director

"We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art"

Julie Taymor, Director

"And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too - not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, to do the richer Shakespeare. People will come to this and not know the story"

Julie Taymor, Director

"Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia"

Julie Taymor, Director

"We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardner's contemporary retelling. If you bring it into today, we really feel that it has something very fresh to say now"

Julie Taymor, Director

"People will justify whatever for a good cause"

Julie Taymor, Director

"I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way"

Julie Taymor, Director

"I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting"

Julie Taymor, Director

"But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame"

Julie Taymor, Director

"When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director"

Kathryn Bigelow, Director

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