Famous quotes by Directors

"There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible"

Kathryn Bigelow, Director

"I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"Then I usually leave the choice of the second assistant director and any other assistant directors to the first assistant director, who will choose because he or she is responsible for the conduct and the efficiency of the second assistant directors"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"The first thing I can really tell you is I really love the work"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"I think I've made some pretty decent films in the '80s and '90s"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous"

Julie Taymor, Director

"I'm not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don't feel like I can put my own self into it. That doesn't mean it has to be about myself"

Julie Taymor, Director

"I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We're all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form"

Julie Taymor, Director

"The first thing is that we're being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these groups are trying to diminish the importance and strength of the director. They're trying to do it through both frontal and side attacks"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"If you cast the picture correctly, you have a whole lot of leeway. You can make mistakes in other aspects, but pull it off with the right actors"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"I think all great actors - and I don't classify myself as one of them, incidentally - but I think all great actors listen well, and I've learned that from a lot of the very good actors with whom I've worked - to really listen to what people say"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon"

Wim Wenders, Director

"What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions"

Wim Wenders, Director

"Neither Rainer Werner, nor any of us could have succeeded, or produced the number of films that we did, just on our own. We showed our films to each other, discussed them vigorously and rarely agreed"

Wim Wenders, Director

"But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive"

Wim Wenders, Director

"When James Cameron brought me the script, which I developed with both Cameron and Jay Cocks, I wanted to make it a thriller, an action film, but with a conscience, and I found that it had elements of social realism"

Kathryn Bigelow, Director

"When he brought it to me four years ago, Rodney King had just arrived, I was involved in the clean-up of L.A. and I guess it was part of my experience"

Kathryn Bigelow, Director

"The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident"

Kathryn Bigelow, Director

"One should make morals judgements for oneself"

Kathryn Bigelow, Director

"I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive"

Kathryn Bigelow, Director

"I don't want to be made pacified or made comfortable. I like stuff that gets your adrenaline going"

Kathryn Bigelow, Director

"Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs"

Kathryn Bigelow, Director

"But I really am very active in the choice of the line producer with the producer of record and the distributing company, because I've had some terrible, terrible experiences with some line producers, particularly in cable"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"You never think the universe will reward your first choice - it just doesn't work like that"

Kathryn Bigelow, Director

"On the other hand, I believe there's hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously"

Kathryn Bigelow, Director

"The more opinions you have, the less you see"

Wim Wenders, Director

"In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years"

Wim Wenders, Director

"Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm"

Kathryn Bigelow, Director

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