Director Quotes: Inspirational Words from Visionary Filmmakers (Page 5)

"I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters"

"And then we watched an amazing number of movies from the late '60s and '70s, which is my favorite time, and we studied their camera movements, their stocks, the way they lit stuff, the colors they used"

Ted Demme, Director

"Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?"

Sergei Eisenstein, Director

"I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away"

John Hughes, Director

"The funny thing is all these school shootings that we have, always happen in very religious communities. Maybe it's because the centre of their lives is a big fat nothing and it's just a fantasy and there's nothing there. I think maybe that might have something to do with it"

Matthew Bright, Director

"The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out. That's why I'm always hoping society never collapses because the first ones to go will be entertainers"

Kevin Smith, Director

"I have a feeling he felt Jon Voight had run away with the film, which he didn't, though he was brilliant in it, in a much less easy part. I just don't know what had got into him, but something had"

John Schlesinger, Director

"When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her"

Sacha Guitry, Director

"When I last went to Italy, over two years ago, I had a lot more trouble understanding the language than I used to when I lived there for a year. I used to speak very little but I could understand very well"

Marcel Carne, Director

"An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation"

Billy Wilder, Director

"Don't make jokes about food"

David Lean, Director

"I pick out young people and teach them in less time than it would take me to alter the methods of people from the boards, and I get actors who look the parts they have to fill"

D. W. Griffith, Director

"I start with actors that I know personally or I know their work, and there are things about their work or their presence or their own personality that make a character, that exaggerates some qualities and suppresses other qualities. It's always a real collaboration for me"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony"

Blake Edwards, Director

"I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it"

Larry Wachowski, Director

"It's always great when you discover someone"

Brian De Palma, Director

"It's not color, it's like pouring 40 tablespoons of sugar water over a roast"

John Huston, Director

"My life and career is my own adventure"

Dario Argento, Director

"Oh, yes, that never happened to me in my life before. It was a risky film, and I warned the producer"

Alain Resnais, Director

"Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally"

Alexander Payne, Director

"I think it would be fun to write about movies again"

Bill Condon, Director

"The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words"

Sam Mendes, Director

"We worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself"

Val Guest, Director

"I think I would say 'The King's Speech' is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented there's more laughter in this film than in most comedies, while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending"

Tom Hooper, Director

"In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius"

Alex Cox, Director

"I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different"

Ridley Scott, Director

"I make a movie because it's something that inspires me"

Tony Scott, Director

"The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good"

Woody Allen, Director

"Seventy percent of success in life is showing up"

Woody Allen, Director

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