Famous quotes by Directors

"I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"They're getting more and more experience on what to expect, and the Hellboy audience is such a faithful and fanatic audience as I am, and you have to really be very open about what you do"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"In that, Blade 2 is very much like a rock concert... If it's too loud, you're too old"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"For Devil's Backbone, I loved it, but I felt very pressured, but so I was neurotic on the shoot"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"For eight years, I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"You must know what you are capable of"

Zhang Yimou, Director

"Wuxia is a fantasy world, exists in everyone's mind"

Zhang Yimou, Director

"Time has changed, and now is the age of spending"

Zhang Yimou, Director

"Now, a movie with 30 million returns would be something very incredible, and the producer can only get 10 to 15 million. This is only 100 thousands US dollars. This is not enough!"

Zhang Yimou, Director

"For over ten years, I always had, but I don't speak English"

Zhang Yimou, Director

"Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good"

Zhang Yimou, Director

"Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me"

Tim Burton, Director

"I must stick with Chinese language films"

Zhang Yimou, Director

"But I think we need the international market"

Zhang Yimou, Director

"To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings"

Zhang Yimou, Director

"The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms, and large big scenes"

Zhang Yimou, Director

"People in misery is what most important in art"

Zhang Yimou, Director

"HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism"

Zhang Yimou, Director

"If I had a choice about going to a meeting at a studio or changing a nappy, I'd choose the nappy"

Tim Burton, Director

"My movies continue to be found and be sold because there's something going on in them"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"Disney had such a hold on the mind of America-they were Adolf Hitler. The whole country thought Disney was some sort of god and that animation was some sort of pure thing for children"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"I'm not Ang Lee, who knows so much about Western market and the taste of Western audiences"

Zhang Yimou, Director

"I am not a dark person and I don't consider myself dark"

Tim Burton, Director

"Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

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