Famous quotes by Directors

"I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did, betray my own soul"

Elia Kazan, Director

"I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies"

Elia Kazan, Director

"I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show"

Elia Kazan, Director

"I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual"

Elia Kazan, Director

"To me, this movie is about what is valuable. To one person, it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film"

Edward Zwick, Director

"There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control"

Edward Zwick, Director

"I like to rehearse with the actors scenes that are not in the script and will not be in the film because what we're really doing is trying to establish their character, and good acting to me is about reacting"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don't like looking back. I don't even like talking about 'em! So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't like to sit and look at my films again"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"I didn't go to classes there, but ended up at the Cinematheque, and there it opened up even wider because there I saw a variety of films from all over the world"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you don't know what the hell is going on"

Elia Kazan, Director

"There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense"

Elia Kazan, Director

"The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more"

Elia Kazan, Director

"I was even superior to the Communists, and when they didn't go along with me, I quit them"

Elia Kazan, Director

"I used to spend most of my time straining to be a nice guy so people would like me"

Elia Kazan, Director

"I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action"

Elia Kazan, Director

"Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?"

Elia Kazan, Director

"I have nothing against diamonds or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country"

Edward Zwick, Director

"When you make a film like this, you must have the highest expectations of your audience, having worked in situations where we have the lowest expectations of our audience"

Atom Egoyan, Director

"My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration"

Atom Egoyan, Director

"The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"I'm a horrible public speaker"

Bill Condon, Director

"But the imposition of morality onto science - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years"

Bill Condon, Director

"The whole film is about people being convinced that they can reduce themselves to their archetypes"

Atom Egoyan, Director

"The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person"

Atom Egoyan, Director

"The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being"

Atom Egoyan, Director

"That's a very odd notion because it involves seeing money up there on the screen - if something cost $5 million to make, they want to see that $5 million up there"

Atom Egoyan, Director

"That is where the irony of the film comes off, in terms of the language it employs - where he tries desperately to be a 'TV Dad', to give advice and it's so pat it becomes ridiculous"

Atom Egoyan, Director

"Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would never dream of showing them my independent films"

Atom Egoyan, Director

"It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television"

Atom Egoyan, Director

"I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else entirely because the one thing you wanted them to do may not work, then you are just shattering their confidence in the project"

Atom Egoyan, Director

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