Famous quotes by Directors

"You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people"

Patrice Leconte, Director

"I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation"

Patrice Leconte, Director

"I am not a fan of westerns particularly"

Patrice Leconte, Director

"I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation"

Patrice Leconte, Director

"I like films to be complete in their written form"

Patrice Leconte, Director

"I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew"

John Boorman, Director

"I look at the story, I look at the idea, and just try to think of it in terms of that whole body of myth, and see where the characters fit in and what they ought to be doing-all those archetypes are there to play with"

John Boorman, Director

"If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the Crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this. That's my message"

Moustapha Akkad, Director

"Beside all this, I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the West, I felt that it was my obligation, my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following, yet it's so little known about it, which surprised me"

Moustapha Akkad, Director

"The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place"

Sacha Guitry, Director

"What to do when inspiration doesn't come; be careful not to spook, get the wind up, force things into position. You must wait around until the idea comes"

John Huston, Director

"I started working with friends of mine, and that, to some degree, continues"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"A lot of poets, too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"The little I know I owe to my ignorance"

Sacha Guitry, Director

"I would gladly admit women are superior to men, if only they would stop trying to be the same as us"

Sacha Guitry, Director

"Why is it better to love than to be loved? It is surer!"

Sacha Guitry, Director

"Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness"

Sacha Guitry, Director

"A man must marry only a very pretty woman, in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands"

Sacha Guitry, Director

"I'd wanted to be a writer, and when I came back to New York, worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more referential to cinema"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"I love rehearsing because in rehearsals, there are no mistakes, nothing is wrong, some things apply or lead you to focus on the character, and the things that don't apply are equally valuable because they lead you to, towards what does"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"Contradiction was something I really like, when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"You've got to keep fighting - you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive"

Elia Kazan, Director

"The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen: action, movement, sweep"

Elia Kazan, Director

"The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed"

Elia Kazan, Director

"I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am"

Elia Kazan, Director

"A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people"

Elia Kazan, Director

"You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility!"

Elia Kazan, Director

"Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything"

Elia Kazan, Director

"Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit"

Elia Kazan, Director

"I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable"

Elia Kazan, Director

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