Director Quotes: Inspirational Words from Visionary Filmmakers (Page 2)

"Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down"

Woody Allen, Director

"There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?"

Woody Allen, Director

"The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have"

Woody Allen, Director

"I failed to make the chess team because of my height"

Woody Allen, Director

"Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?"

Jean Renoir, Director

"I think the concept of the sea is very important"

Alejandro Amenabar, Director

"In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead"

Uwe Boll, Director

"They're getting more and more experience on what to expect, and the Hellboy audience is such a faithful and fanatic audience as I am, and you have to really be very open about what you do"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"In a relationship you have to open yourself up"

Neil LaBute, Director

"So if you want to have a great video game-based movie you have to keep the mood of the game, use the normal character setup - but you have to flesh out the story and provide more background for the characters"

Uwe Boll, Director

"I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present"

Uwe Boll, Director

"I boxed 15 years in a club"

Uwe Boll, Director

"People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape"

Neil LaBute, Director

"People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life"

Neil LaBute, Director

"And I've got some screenplays and plays ready to dip into when I need to"

Neil LaBute, Director

"The poet doesn't invent. He listens"

Jean Cocteau, Director

"Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs"

Jean Cocteau, Director

"Style is a simple way of saying complicated things"

Jean Cocteau, Director

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

Jean Cocteau, Director

"I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"And I kind of feel that I have a responsibility to the people that invest their time and money with me to show up on the set every day and do the best of which I am capable"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language"

John Milius, Director

"And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they can't act, but, by God, they all think they can edit"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own"

Zhang Yimou, Director

"A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something"

Frank Capra, Director

"Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that's continually trying to erode that"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit"

Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Director

"I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, I would take that picture that I was writing and I would put that in the typewriter, so when I had the meeting, they would say: 'Oh, you're working on it right now?'"

John Sayles, Director

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