Famous quotes by Directors

"Language is much closer to film than painting is"

Sergei Eisenstein, Director

"That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them"

Lars von Trier, Director

"Well, it's 15 years since Sex, Lies, and Videotape, and if you hang around long enough, you're having the same arguments with just a new set of people every few years and it gets boring"

Steven Soderbergh, Director

"Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction"

Steven Soderbergh, Director

"Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that's there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile"

Edward Zwick, Director

"It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later"

Antoine Fuqua, Director

"And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship"

John Grierson, Director

"Cinema is a language. It can be used to elevate, to illuminate, to interrogate. It can also be used to erase. I'm interested in using it to reveal"

Ava DuVernay, Director

"Thousands of people come to LA every year, and some of them just disappear. Somebody gets them. In the States around 100,000 people vanish each year. I don't know what that means. Maybe there's something that just pulls 'em out"

Tobe Hooper, Director

"The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe"

Lee Strasberg, Director

"My invention (the motion picture camera) can be exploited... as a scientific curiosity, but apart from that it has no commercial value whatsoever"

Auguste Lumiere, Director

"Money has no moral opinions"

Abraham Polonsky, Director

"Los Angeles has always been on the table with us"

Michael Ritchie, Director

"What scares me is what scares you. We're all afraid of the same things. That's why horror is such a powerful genre. All you have to do is ask yourself what frightens you and you'll know what frightens me"

John Carpenter, Director

"You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them"

David Fincher, Director

"I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years"

Richard Linklater, Director

"In Hollywood, you just fail upwards"

Kevin Smith, Director

"I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images"

Ingmar Bergman, Director

"If no producer, no movie"

Dino De Laurentiis, Director

"Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I've not found that to be the situation"

Barry Levinson, Director

"Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth"

Alan Rudolph, Director

"I've been interested in dreams since I, as a kid, and I've wanted to do a film about them for a long time"

Christopher Nolan, Director

"I wanted to make a movie about the arbitrary nature of love"

Adrian Lyne, Director

"Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go it's pretty damn good"

Woody Allen, Director

"When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back"

Woody Allen, Director

"I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox"

Woody Allen, Director

"I tended to place my wife under a pedestal"

Woody Allen, Director

"I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys"

Woody Allen, Director

"Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night"

Woody Allen, Director

"The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep"

Woody Allen, Director

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