Directors Quotes - Page 13

• Before I go off and direct a movie, I always look at four films. They tend to be The Seven Samurai, Lawrence Of Arabia, It's A Wonderful Life and The Searchers.

  Steven Spielberg

  Arabia, Looks, Four

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• We’re living in an acquisitive capitalist society that is fundamentally anti-family and fundamentally uncomfortable with just enjoying being human. We’d rather shop than live, acquire than love and stare into a screen than hold each other.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Love, Life, Family

  "Sometimes Youthful Stupidity is a Better way to Find Happiness than Making Mature Choices" by Frank Schaeffer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2014.

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• In life and business, there are two cardinal sins, the first is to act precipitously without thought, and the second is to not act at all. Unfortunately the board of directors and top management of Times Warner already committed the first sin by merging with AOL, and we believe they are currently in the process of committing the second; now is not a time to move slowly and suffer the paralysis of inaction.

  Carl Icahn

  Believe, Moving, Two

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• We weep for a bird’s cry, but not for a fish’s blood. Blessed are those with a voice.

  Mamoru Oshii

  Blessed, Blessing, Blood

  "Fictional character: Major Motoko Kusanagi". "Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence", www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• You can truly grieve for every officer who's been lost in the line of duty in this country, and still be troubled by cases of police overreach.

  Jon Stewart

  Respect, Country, Regret

  "Jon Stewart To Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade: ‘F—k You’" by Catherine Taibi, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2014.

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• Existence for eternity could get a little boring... especially towards the end.

  Woody Allen

  Boredom, Littles, Boring

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• When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don't get to decide that you didn't.

  Louis C. K.

  Broken Heart, Hurt, Pain

  "Fictional character: Louie". "Louie/ Cop Story", www.imdb.com. 2015.

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• You need contrast and conflict in order to tell a story. Stories need to have dark and light, turmoil, all those things. But that does not mean the filmmaker has to suffer in order to show the suffering. Stories should have the suffering, not the people.

  David Lynch

  Inspirational, Mean, Dark

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• The best camera, is the one that you have with you!

  Chase Jarvis

  Photography, Entrepreneur, Cameras

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• Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.

  Phylicia Rashad

  Inspirational, Birthday, Quilts

  "The Power and Solidarity of Women". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 09, 2016.

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• I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.

  Banksy

  Life, Death, Time

  The Sun, 2010.

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• What did you expect? 'Welcome, sonny?' 'Make yourself at home?' 'Marry my daughter?' You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know . . . morons.

  Gene Wilder

  Daughter, Home, Simple

  "Fictional character: Jim". "Blazing Saddles", www.imdb.com. 1974.

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• When you hit a wall – of your own imagined limitations – just kick it in.

  Sam Shepard

  Motivational, Moving On, Success

  "Remembering Sam Shepard: The Pulitzer-Winning Playwright and Author's 10 Best Quotes on Writing, Love and Life" by Olivia Ladd, parade.com. July 31, 2017.

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• Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Work for the actor lies essentially in two areas: the ability to consistently create reality and the ability to express that reality.

  Lee Strasberg

  Lying, Reality, Expression

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• There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

  Martin Scorsese

  Simple, Cinema, Filmmaker

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• You either like me or you don't. It took me twenty-something years to learn how to love myself, I don't have that kinda time to convince somebody else.

  Daniel Franzese

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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• You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

  John Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Honesty

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• Tranquil as a forest, but on fire within, once you find your center, you are sure to win.

  David Zippel

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Winning

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• Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

  Kevin Spacey

  Funny, Crazy, Humorous

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

  Peter Ustinov

  Love, Life, Marriage

  "Ustinov's comic touch". BBC obituary, news.bbc.co.uk. March 29, 2004.

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• The very nature of cool is that you think about it too much and it becomes uncool.

  Don Johnson

  Thinking, Too Much, Cool Funny

  "Rascal". Interview with Tad Friend, www.newyorker.com. June 23, 2014.

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• Editing is not merely a method of the junction of separate scenes or pieces, but is a method that controls the 'psychological guidance' of the spectator.

  Vsevolod Pudovkin

  Movie, Editing, Cinema

  "Watch: 5 Master Editing Techniques That Appear in Everything From ‘Psycho’ to ‘Hugo’" by Casey Cipriani, www.indiewire.com. October 9, 2013.

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• One of the things we learn in movies directed by men is what the 'fantasy woman' is. What we learn in movies directed by women is what real women are about. I don't think that men see things wrong and women right, just that we do see things differently.

  Jane Campion

  Movie, Real, Women

  Jane Campion, Virginia Wright Wexman (1999). “Jane Campion: Interviews”, p.53, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• To me the director’s job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Jobs, Umpires, Shapes

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