Famous quotes by Directors

"I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be"

Bill Condon, Director

"There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed"

Edward Zwick, Director

"I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them"

Edward Zwick, Director

"You are traveling and see these people shooting the entire experience of going through a city, and maybe in the back of their minds they sustain the illusion that they will edit it all, but I don't think that's it"

Atom Egoyan, Director

"When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence"

Atom Egoyan, Director

"There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home, and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image"

Atom Egoyan, Director

"I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as small a crew as possible"

Atom Egoyan, Director

"I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you"

Atom Egoyan, Director

"One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy to capitalism would fundamentally concern the sources of funding"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"Nevertheless, in the theatre, and in the cinema, the contemporary reality of Poland has been represented only to a minuscule degree in the last 12 years"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"Films made in the spirit of the past continued to be made"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"Cinemas gained new, young audiences who wanted films made for them"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"These sorts of things can happen, identities can be switched, the emotional implications are something that he has not been trained to feel. His whole life has been about separating himself from these sorts of actions"

Atom Egoyan, Director

"As a producer, I think one of the most important decisions you make is not necessarily the material you are working on, but the production apparatus that you choose to develop the project with, and that determines what funding you go to, it determines many factors"

Atom Egoyan, Director

"On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film!"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"At the same time, television theatre became more visibly active"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"A novelty in Polish filmmaking was that it was possible to find funds for a big production. However, at the same time, the state budget committed less and less money to filmmaking"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"It's an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana"

Bill Condon, Director

"First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids"

Bill Condon, Director

"And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their sexual acts was limiting themselves"

Bill Condon, Director

"There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful"

Bill Condon, Director

"One of the people that became a major source was Clarence Tripp, who worked with Kinsey"

Bill Condon, Director

"Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is"

Bill Condon, Director

"Actually, I loved Chucky. It's one of the strangest movies I've ever seen"

Bill Condon, Director

"A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie"

Bill Condon, Director

"These are very subtle things, of course, and I don't expect everyone to pick them up consciously, but I think that there is something there that you must be able to feel, there is an energy at work that I must trust my audience will be able to pick up at some level"

Atom Egoyan, Director

"The film camera's ability to physically move through space, not zoom through space - every time we have a video camera, the movement is through zoom; every time we have a film camera, it is a physical movement"

Atom Egoyan, Director

"Once we were in the studio, we realized we were getting certain effects through the shooting of the dramatic scenes on video, shooting off a screen and then getting wave patterns and stuff like that"

Atom Egoyan, Director

"It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it both ways, if I was trying to cover myself in case it didn't work, then it would have been to no purpose"

Atom Egoyan, Director

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