Famous quotes by Directors

"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

"My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out"

Bill Condon, Director

"I had a couple of movies that I was passionately involved with that I could never get made. 'Richard Pryor,' I wrote for - gosh - over a year. That was close to getting made for two-and-a-half years after that. We're still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it's like, 'God, five years have gone by'"

Bill Condon, Director

"I don't think 'Twilight' should be approached like 'Batman,' because it is an invented kind of world, especially this one, I think it's got to be done with a sense of enjoyment to it, I guess, more than anything. So I never thought of anything as making fun of it, but kind of reveling in the melodrama of it. It's a melodrama"

Bill Condon, Director

"I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because people's lives don't have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying"

Bill Condon, Director

"No piece of writing is ever finished. It's just due"

Bill Condon, Director

"It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged"

Bill Condon, Director

"For me, someone like the Eddie Murphy character doesn't live anywhere; he lives on a stage, and when he's not on the stage, he's on a bus getting to the next stage. You don't really want to see him at home, or all those things you can do in the movie"

Bill Condon, Director

"The thing I've noticed about life is that it just keeps coming at you. And it can be a real bummer. What you need to remember is that you're not alone. You've got friends and family. That's how we get by. We talk and share and eat cake and giggle in the dark, even when we're scared - no, especially when we're scared"

Bill Condon, Director

"There's nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside.If I pick the right one I can be beautiful, or fall in love, or live happily ever after. Maybe even all three"

Bill Condon, Director

"I believe that we need to have more dialogue and understanding between different cultures, and that art and culture can play an important role in bringing people together"

Moustapha Akkad, Director

"If my films have a message, it's that humanity is a single family and we should try to help each other"

Moustapha Akkad, Director

"I'm an Arab, but I'm also a citizen of the world. Islam is my religion, but I believe my religion is not exclusive"

Moustapha Akkad, Director

"Making movies is eating candy. It's a very expensive candy, so you value when you can do it. So when you can do it twice at once, it's like, you know, a kid in a candy store!"

Phillip Noyce, Director

"Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin"

Patrice Leconte, Director

"But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent"

Patrice Leconte, Director

"When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting"

John Boorman, Director

"There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important"

John Boorman, Director

"I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!"

Howard Hawks, Director

"I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"Whites were the winners, Blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature"

Phillip Noyce, Director

"The more she rejected us, the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, her disdain for authority, her scepticism that she had to do what the white man told her because it was good for her... She is Molly"

Phillip Noyce, Director

"Working with the same people is so much quicker and frees up your energy for other things"

Patrice Leconte, Director

"My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience"

Patrice Leconte, Director

"I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized"

Patrice Leconte, Director

"The intention was to shoot short films that can exist as shorts independently, but when I put them all together, there are things that echo through them like the dialogue repeats; the situation is always the same, the way they're shot is very simple and the same"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"You can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual"

Elia Kazan, Director

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