Famous quotes by Directors

Kathryn Bigelow, Director

"The Cuban people have an amazingly strong and unbroken spirit"

Wim Wenders, Director

"So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else, because the division is no longer true"

Wim Wenders, Director

"In the late 1980s the amount of German films was down to four or five percent of the market, and the remaining 95 percent were American. It is now 20 to 30 percent German productions"

Wim Wenders, Director

"Ibrahim tells his story without a grain of complaint, and this was true for all of the band members. This is very much part of the Cuban spirit and soul"

Wim Wenders, Director

"For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury"

Wim Wenders, Director

"The urge to purge the material I come up with is, I guess, an ongoing process"

Kathryn Bigelow, Director

"Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding"

Kathryn Bigelow, Director

"You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you, and just decide to do nothing at all"

Sam Mendes, Director

"When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white"

Sam Mendes, Director

"Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie"

Sam Mendes, Director

"This is the first time in 10 years, I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls, no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom"

Sam Mendes, Director

"There's one thing better than having a great actor, and that's having a great actor who's never done this kind of role before and is hungry to do it. They're testing themselves every day. They want to get out of their trailer and get to work"

Sam Mendes, Director

"There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it"

Sam Mendes, Director

"The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day"

Sam Mendes, Director

"The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words"

Sam Mendes, Director

"One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films"

Sam Mendes, Director

"Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that"

Sam Mendes, Director

"Kevin and Annette... I wanted them to do it together. They clearly wanted to work with each other"

Sam Mendes, Director

"It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character"

Sam Mendes, Director

"If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything"

Sam Mendes, Director

"I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... That's basically it"

Sam Mendes, Director

"I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film"

Sam Mendes, Director

"I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies"

Sam Mendes, Director

"I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different"

Sam Mendes, Director

"I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance"

Sam Mendes, Director

"I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time"

Sam Mendes, Director

"I like throwing snowballs at small children"

Sam Mendes, Director

"I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly"

Sam Mendes, Director

"I don't think good and evil are polarized"

Sam Mendes, Director

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