Famous quotes by Directors

"The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves"

Satyajit Ray, Director

"There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing"

Nicolas Roeg, Director

"The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"On the contrary, a film can promote the idea of change without any political message whatsoever, but in its form and language can tell people that they can change their lives and contribute to progressive changes in the world"

Wim Wenders, Director

"Music stops you from thinking"

Peter Weir, Director

"Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people"

Kathryn Bigelow, Director

"Thank God, I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time, it just gets out of proportion and you lose touch completely with reality"

Sam Mendes, Director

"The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art"

John Lasseter, Director

"Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults"

John Lasseter, Director

"What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off to them"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"I'm a lapsed altar boy"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile"

Sacha Guitry, Director

"When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"Previously, the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug"

Bill Condon, Director

"All the great legends are templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived"

John Boorman, Director

"I only storyboard scenes that require special effects, where it is necessary to communicate through pictures"

John Boorman, Director

"You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty"

Sacha Guitry, Director

"Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor"

John Huston, Director

"Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it"

Elia Kazan, Director

"The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions"

Elia Kazan, Director

"Though I am still very vulnerable to audiences - and it happens all the time - where for some reason the energy doesn't connect and, since the film is very personal, obviously I am made to feel very vulnerable by that"

Atom Egoyan, Director

"You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide is how it has been forgotten"

Atom Egoyan, Director

"I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because people's lives don't have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying"

Bill Condon, Director

"I still get a lot of material, but I find that as one gets older, you get more fussy. You know, you're going spend a year or a year and a half on this, and you know there are only so many films in you, so you get a little bit more selective"

Norman Jewison, Director

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