Famous quotes by Directors

Small: Ken Burns - I dont use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scrip
Ken Burns
"I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts"
Ken Burns, Director
Small: Ken Burns - A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm
Ken Burns
"A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm"
Ken Burns, Director
Small: Ken Burns - One of the things I really like about Fords films is how there is always a focus on the way charac
Ken Burns
"One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes"
Ken Burns, Director
Small: Ken Burns - I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head
Ken Burns
"I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head"
Ken Burns, Director
Small: Ken Burns - I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their
Ken Burns
"I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible amount of technique they have. But there's very little that I think satisfies you intellectually or emotionally"
Ken Burns, Director
Small: Ken Burns - I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and mo
Ken Burns
"I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films"
Ken Burns, Director
Small: Ken Burns - I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to know about
Ken Burns
"I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to know about this thing called the United States of America you have to know about the Civil War"
Ken Burns, Director
Small: Elia Kazan - Youve got to keep fighting - youve got to risk your life every six months to stay alive
Elia Kazan
"You've got to keep fighting - you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive"
Elia Kazan, Director
Small: Elia Kazan - The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep
Elia Kazan
"The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep"
Elia Kazan, Director
Small: Elia Kazan - The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed
Elia Kazan
"The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed"
Elia Kazan, Director
Small: Elia Kazan - I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it Im building something for myself. What I build
Elia Kazan
"I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am"
Elia Kazan, Director
Small: Elia Kazan - A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. Were desperate people
Elia Kazan
"A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people"
Elia Kazan, Director
Small: Elia Kazan - You have to remind people of their own struggles. Its a responsibility
Elia Kazan
"You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility"
Elia Kazan, Director
Small: Elia Kazan - Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything
Elia Kazan
"Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything"
Elia Kazan, Director
Small: Elia Kazan - Miller didnt write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be tu
Elia Kazan
"Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit"
Elia Kazan, Director
Small: Elia Kazan - Im small, but Im neither compliant nor agreeable
Elia Kazan
"I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable"
Elia Kazan, Director
Small: Elia Kazan - I was not a collective person or a bohemian I was an elitist
Elia Kazan
"I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist"
Elia Kazan, Director
Small: Elia Kazan - I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb
Elia Kazan
"I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb"
Elia Kazan, Director
Small: Elia Kazan - I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice
Elia Kazan
"I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice"
Elia Kazan, Director
Small: Elia Kazan - I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any op
Elia Kazan
"I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest"
Elia Kazan, Director
Small: Elia Kazan - Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting
Elia Kazan
"Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting"
Elia Kazan, Director
Small: Elia Kazan - Whats called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are pen
Elia Kazan
"What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties"
Elia Kazan, Director
Small: Elia Kazan - Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose
Elia Kazan
"Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose"
Elia Kazan, Director
Small: Elia Kazan - I wouldnt go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. Its a nas
Elia Kazan
"I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed"
Elia Kazan, Director
Small: Elia Kazan - I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, becau
Elia Kazan
"I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up"
Elia Kazan, Director
Small: Elia Kazan - I hate the Communists and have for many years and dont feel right about giving up my career to de
Elia Kazan
"I hate the Communists and have for many years and don't feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this"
Elia Kazan, Director
Small: Elia Kazan - I didnt have that much confidence. Maybe it looks that way. Im glad it does
Elia Kazan
"I didn't have that much confidence. Maybe it looks that way. I'm glad it does"
Elia Kazan, Director
Small: Elia Kazan - For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the America
Elia Kazan
"For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists"
Elia Kazan, Director
Small: Elia Kazan - Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it
Elia Kazan
"Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it"
Elia Kazan, Director
Small: Elia Kazan - Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him
Elia Kazan
"Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him"
Elia Kazan, Director
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