Famous quotes by Directors

"I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist"

Elia Kazan, Director

"I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb"

Elia Kazan, Director

"I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice"

Elia Kazan, Director

"I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest"

Elia Kazan, Director

"Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting"

Elia Kazan, Director

"Hollywood has always been a cage... A cage to catch our dreams"

John Huston, Director

"I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like"

John Huston, Director

"When I left Ohio, when I was 17, and ended up in New York and realised that not all films had the giant crab monsters in them, it really opened up a lot of things for me"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"What I did was I completed the half-hour film, but before really showing it, I wrote two more sections for a potential feature film which I didn't think would really happen, but at least I had it in case"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a diamond"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"I like doing them and they're ridiculous, and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic characters that hit a very specific tone as in a feature film. They're really fun, I want to make more of them definitely"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"It seems that almost every time a valuable natural resource is discovered in the world-whether it be diamonds, rubber, gold, oil, whatever-often what results is a tragedy for the country in which they are found. Making matters worse, the resulting riches from these resources rarely benefit the people of the country from which they come"

Edward Zwick, Director

"What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go, there are penalties"

Elia Kazan, Director

"Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose"

Elia Kazan, Director

"I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed"

Elia Kazan, Director

"I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up"

Elia Kazan, Director

"I hate the Communists and have for many years and don't feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this!"

Elia Kazan, Director

"I didn't have that much confidence. Maybe it looks that way. I'm glad it does"

Elia Kazan, Director

"For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists"

Elia Kazan, Director

"Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it"

Elia Kazan, Director

"Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him"

Elia Kazan, Director

"You walk through a series of arches, so to speak, and then, presently, at the end of a corridor, a door opens and you see backward through time, and you feel the flow of time, and realize you are only part of a great nameless procession"

John Huston, Director

"I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends"

Elia Kazan, Director

"I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made"

Elia Kazan, Director

"I was always a self-conscious person"

Elia Kazan, Director

"I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity"

Elia Kazan, Director

"I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood"

Elia Kazan, Director

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