Famous quotes by Directors

"Isn't that the most perverse thing you've ever heard?"

John Waters, Director

"But I think Barry Sonnenfeld let his ego go out of control. He told me in a meeting that he had to do something to make it his film"

Robert Conrad, Director

"Los Angeles has always been on the table with us"

Michael Ritchie, Director

"I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it"

Brian De Palma, Director

"There were scenes that just for length purposes, and knowing that the attention span of kids is not great, don't make it much longer than about 90 minutes"

John Badham, Director

"Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food; frequently there must be a beverage"

Woody Allen, Director

Woody Allen

"Who bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen"

Woody Allen, Director

Woody Allen

"I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown"

Woody Allen, Director

Woody Allen

"I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse"

Woody Allen, Director

Woody Allen

"His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy"

Woody Allen, Director

Woody Allen

"Marriage is the death of hope"

Woody Allen, Director

Woody Allen

"I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers"

Woody Allen, Director

Woody Allen

"I failed to make the chess team because of my height"

Woody Allen, Director

Woody Allen

"If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else"

Rob Reiner, Director

Rob Reiner

"I think Jews are the smartest people in the world"

Rob Reiner, Director

Rob Reiner

"Drama is life with the dull bits cut out"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

Alfred Hitchcock

"What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out?"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

Alfred Hitchcock

"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

Alfred Hitchcock

"I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old"

Stanley Kubrick, Director

Stanley Kubrick

"I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time, and I learnt some great dialogue"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

Quentin Tarantino

"Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture"

Jean Cocteau, Director

Jean Cocteau

"Life is a horizontal fall"

Jean Cocteau, Director

Jean Cocteau

"Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also"

Billy Wilder, Director

Billy Wilder

"Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon"

Billy Wilder, Director

Billy Wilder

"Hindsight is always twenty-twenty"

Billy Wilder, Director

Billy Wilder

"I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas"

Jean-Luc Godard, Director

"It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

Godfrey Reggio

"Do what you haven't done is the key, I think"

Ridley Scott, Director

"Cast is everything"

Ridley Scott, Director

"And I maintain good relationships with all the studios, so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly"

Ridley Scott, Director

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