Famous quotes by Directors

"I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?"

Jean Cocteau, Director

"Life is a horizontal fall"

Jean Cocteau, Director

"It is not I who become addicted, it is my body"

Jean Cocteau, Director

"Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper"

Jean Cocteau, Director

"My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. I'll be the crazy old movie guy"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"I steal from every movie ever made"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"Having been an educator for so many years, I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting"

Darren Aronofsky, Director

"To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't think is a good ride"

Darren Aronofsky, Director

"I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that"

Darren Aronofsky, Director

"I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking"

Darren Aronofsky, Director

"Now there is so much expertise and brainpower; it's hard to be at the cutting edge of what's cool and not do something that's totally geeky"

Darren Aronofsky, Director

"As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it"

Darren Aronofsky, Director

"To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work"

Krzysztof Kieslowski, Director

"I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great, like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Browning, and also some very modern directors like The Coen Brothers. The directors take the freedom within their own movies to be melodramatic or funny when they chose to be. They do whatever they want and they don't care about the genre!"

Michel Hazanavicius, Director

"There are mysteries, secret zones in each individual"

Krzysztof Kieslowski, Director

"I think being a foreigner and talking about Hollywood allowed me to use some cliches and some references that an American would maybe not use"

Michel Hazanavicius, Director

"I thought 'The Artist' was a perfect way to find a good balance. The artistic challenge is obvious because the film is black-and-white and it's silent, but I did my best to make the movie accessible and easy to watch. I really don't want to make elitist movies. I really try hard to work for the audience. Audiences are smart. They get everything"

Michel Hazanavicius, Director

"There's always been a struggle with filmmakers between art and industry, and you have to find a balance"

Michel Hazanavicius, Director

"Same thing with film, by the time you've finished shooting and you've really been into everything, you've touched up everything in the editing room. You've gone in there and taken little bits from everything"

Ridley Scott, Director

"I watched Someone to Watch Over Me the other night. I thought it was a really good movie. It's a great movie"

Ridley Scott, Director

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