Famous quotes by Directors

"I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers"

Woody Allen, Director

"I hate those movies where hundreds of people get blown up and there are jokes afterward. They poison the soul"

Rob Reiner, Director

"With someone like Barack Obama, I think the whole America, the whole world will coalesce. Every election is about change, and change takes a long time because there are big issues that can't be changed overnight. But the one thing that will change dramatically is how we're viewed around the world. Once Obama is in there, the world will view Americans in an entirely different light. And that, to me, is a good thing"

Rob Reiner, Director

"People always said, I can't believe you made a movie that had no script. Yeah, but here's the thing, if you've got actors who are used to that, and that's what they like to do, they're all good improvisers and they're all people that feel comfortable doing that, then you know, it's not that big of a deal. It's what you do"

Rob Reiner, Director

"As you get older, all those dumb clichés, they're all true. You only have a certain amount of time left, and you should only spend it doing the things that you want to do. It's all true"

Rob Reiner, Director

"Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect"

Rob Reiner, Director

"It's a very slow process - two steps forward, one step back - but I'm inching in the right direction"

Rob Reiner, Director

"In feature films, the director is God; in documentary films, God is the director"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"Revenge is sweet and not fattening"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered"

Stanley Kubrick, Director

"You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot"

Stanley Kubrick, Director

"Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me"

Stanley Kubrick, Director

"If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed"

Stanley Kubrick, Director

"Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real"

Federico Fellini, Director

"There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life"

Federico Fellini, Director

"An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox"

Francois Truffaut, Director

"The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world"

Federico Fellini, Director

"It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive"

Federico Fellini, Director

"It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman"

Federico Fellini, Director

"I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel"

Billy Wilder, Director

"I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes"

Billy Wilder, Director

"If there's anything I hate more than being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously"

Billy Wilder, Director

"The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth"

Jean Cocteau, Director

"Style is a simple way of saying complicated things"

Jean Cocteau, Director

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