Famous quotes by Directors

"I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt"

Elia Kazan, Director

"I owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me"

Elia Kazan, Director

"I may be getting old, but not foolish"

Elia Kazan, Director

"I joined the Communist Party late in 1934. I got out a year and a half later"

Elia Kazan, Director

"A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do"

Elia Kazan, Director

"I've always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New York and I went to Paris for part of one year and ended up staying there"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"I didn't get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film, I made a feature called Permanent Vacation, and they'd given me a scholarship, the Louis B Mayer fellowship, and they made a mistake"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"Hopefully, if not, it's not working right. I'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like fruit. I like cherries, I like bananas"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"Cricket makes no sense to me. I find it beautiful to watch and I like that they break for tea. That is very cool, but I don't understand. My friends from The Clash tried to explain it years and years ago, but I didn't understand what they were talking about"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other. As a filmmaker, I want to entertain people first and foremost. If out of that comes a greater awareness and understanding of a time or a circumstance, then the hope is that change can happen"

Edward Zwick, Director

"I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man"

Edward Zwick, Director

"I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting"

Edward Zwick, Director

"The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal"

Elia Kazan, Director

"The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together, or whether the set has an escape place in it"

Elia Kazan, Director

"The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up"

Elia Kazan, Director

"The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards!"

Elia Kazan, Director

"I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did"

Elia Kazan, Director

"I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise"

Elia Kazan, Director

"Hey, you must be doin' good, 'cause I never hear from you"

Elia Kazan, Director

"It is not as though the process of production holds any mystery for me, I know exactly what it involves and I know the predominant concern in shooting one of those things is production values - or as they would say, seeing it all up there on screen"

Atom Egoyan, Director

"We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going to be full of initiative in all areas of life - in culture, in economy and in politics"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by giving a percentage of ticket sales back to filmmakers"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"In the forty years of the People's Republic, some of the worst historical traits were preserved in our people. These included even the common characteristics developed in the economic reality of the time of partitions in the 17th and 18th centuries"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"Eventually, the state's funding covered only the stages leading to presenting a film project to potential funding bodies. It was enough to produce a script, indicate casting and put together a budget to present it all, but nothing beyond that"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything"

Bill Condon, Director

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