Famous quotes by Directors

"I've just been very, very lucky with the film having been introduced in the right way"

Atom Egoyan, Director

"I think the situation in Toronto is such that there are funding organizations which make it easy for a film to raise more money than it needs, and very often that works against a film"

Atom Egoyan, Director

"I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope"

Atom Egoyan, Director

"I suppose I had these concerns, but I really felt that I had to keep my scope very, very concentrated"

Atom Egoyan, Director

"Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd"

Bill Condon, Director

"It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors, they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives"

Bill Condon, Director

"I think it would be fun to write about movies again"

Bill Condon, Director

"Working on the themes I was interested in, through the context of a particular family, was a very economical way of dealing with a lot of the issues I was concerned with"

Atom Egoyan, Director

"With it, adult political audiences abandoned cinemas. In their place, appeared a void. That previous political audience migrated to the seats in front of their TV"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"It turned out that the country was helpless in the face of a new reality"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"Also a great part of Polish industry proved to have existed only to support the Soviet military industry, and it became superfluous and incapable of being transformed into anything else. We did not foresee that or the magnitude of these phenomena"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"We made connections between the monsters created by war and the monsters he created, the typical outcast that Whale was attracted to, and the monster in himself, that's inside all of us"

Bill Condon, Director

"Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution"

Bill Condon, Director

"Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality"

Bill Condon, Director

"I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present"

Bill Condon, Director

"I think that finding a way into somebody's life that's sort of off from a side angle can tell you more about that person than a greatest hits approach"

Bill Condon, Director

"I know a little more about Kinsey than I know about sex because that is his subject, not mine"

Bill Condon, Director

"In the first years after 1989, films were partly financed from the state's budget as well as by public television. Still, except for a few special cases, most films are made this way"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"While that wasn't first and foremost in my mind, you can't get into this without being struck, on one side, by how far we've come, and then the other side, by how little things have changed"

Bill Condon, Director

"When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those"

Bill Condon, Director

"Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older, I've become very interested in that part of the work"

Lars von Trier, Director

"Well, you know the old line - to be nominated is what it's all about. I think that I've done pretty well - I've had about 46 or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards in total, so I don't really have any complaints"

Norman Jewison, Director

"We're always on the side of the animal that's being chased. We always seem to be on the side of the rabbit or the fox and not on the side of the hounds"

Norman Jewison, Director

"I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy"

Norman Jewison, Director

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