Famous quotes by Directors

"Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"I animated 20 years at Terry Toons. It's important to know that animators like pizza and a raise once in a while, and you've got to treat them with love"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for American kids, and that was Wizards"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're boring mannerisms"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"My good films were independent and my bad films were not"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"I'm the first to admit that I can't be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good as Tolkien"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"Film has to describe and show"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep, and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"I started when I was eight, doing super 8 films"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"I like actors that are good with pantomime, and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude, more than through their dialogue"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"Well, I think effects are tools"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"I was directing before I knew it was called that"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"There are two levels of vampirism: one is the regular vampire, which is just like it has always been; and then there's the super vampires, which are a new breed we've created"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"I was part of a group that had a cinema club, so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone, and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"From its inception by Michael Bennett, 'Dreamgirls' has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn't change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story"

Bill Condon, Director

"That day I think we really saw each other for the first time. I mean, saw beyond the bag of bones on the outside. You take away her pretty and my plain and what you get underneath is about the same: a couple of lost girls looking to be found"

Bill Condon, Director

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