Famous quotes by Directors

Ridley Scott, Director

"I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect"

Spike Lee, Director

"Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer"

Spike Lee, Director

"Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith"

Spike Lee, Director

"One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together"

Jean-Luc Godard, Director

"To be or not to be. That's not really a question"

Jean-Luc Godard, Director

"All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl"

Jean-Luc Godard, Director

"Every year or so, I try to do something; it keeps me refreshed as to what's going on in front of the lens, and I understand what the actor is going through"

Martin Scorsese, Director

"I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction"

Martin Scorsese, Director

"Roger Corman exploited all of the young people who worked for him, but he really gave you responsibility and opportunity. So it was kind of a fair deal"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something"

Frank Capra, Director

"The challenge to me as a director was for the audience to see the film as going on in a straight line, so that they did not sense all of these break-ups. I did not want a film to be a collage of all these images"

Pedro Almodovar, Director

"I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries"

Frank Capra, Director

"Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being"

Ken Burns, Director

"Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point, they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major"

Oliver Stone, Director

"The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts"

Ken Burns, Director

"We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?"

Ken Burns, Director

"In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel"

Ken Burns, Director

"Lunch is for wimps"

Oliver Stone, Director

"Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize"

Oliver Stone, Director

"But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing"

Oliver Stone, Director

"The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to"

David Lynch, Director

"My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population"

Satyajit Ray, Director

"We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them"

Hayao Miyazaki, Director

"The director is the only person who knows what the film is about"

Satyajit Ray, Director

"I never read reviews. I'm not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators"

Hayao Miyazaki, Director

"I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work"

Hayao Miyazaki, Director

"I'm not really interested in making money"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. At the same time, a response to a response doesn't really solve anything. It just creates a perpetual-motion machine"

Steven Spielberg, Director

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