Film Directors Quotes - Page 3

• I always thought it would be very funny if I was a blind film director.

  Woody Allen

  Directors, Would Be, Film

  "Woody Allen gives you two for one in Melinda and Melinda". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. March 17, 2005.

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• The vast majority of people support the idea of an enlightened, modern union of countries demonstrating solidarity. Film director Wim Wenders recently summed up the problem to me very well. He said the idea of Europe has become an administration, and now people think that the administration is the idea. But that doesn't mean we should give up on the idea - it means we should change the administration.

  Martin Schulz

  Country, Giving Up, Mean

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them. It looks like cunning, but you try to get extra things from them all the time, by stealth, by making them feel confident, so they trust you and you can push a bit.

  Danny Boyle

  Trying, Directors, Looks

  "The sun is the star" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2007.

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• The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing, because we want to flinch. The artist must go into the white hot center of himself, and our impulse when we get there is to look away and avert our eyes.

  Robert Olen Butler

  Mean, Eye, Artist

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• There's no such thing as "an auteurist filmmaker." Every film directors is an auteur. We only make films that we do because we cannot put on clothes that don't fit us.

  Lee Yoon-ki

  Clothes, Directors, Film

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I'm more prone to anarchy than I am to control - even though I'm a film director.

  Terry Gilliam

  Directors, Anarchy, Film

  "Terry Gilliam’s Three-Reel Circus". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. December 16, 2009.

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• I don't ever like to feel myself in the position to demand of an actor that they trust I'm going to do something worthwhile. I feel a responsibility to articulate what it is I'm going to do. Whether that's showing them a full script or sitting down with them and describing my ideas in detail. It's a very healthy burden on me as a film director to be able to articulate what I want to do, to inspire actors, rather than just saying, take it on trust I'll be able to do something worthwhile.

  Christopher Nolan

  Responsibility, Ideas, Inspire

  Source: deadline.com

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• As a kid, I wanted to be an astronaut. And my own passion was that I wanted to be a film director. I realized that being an astronaut was not going to be an option, so I said, "Well, I'm going to be a director and do films in space."

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Passion, Kids, Space

  "Comic-Con: Sandra Bullock and Director Alfonso Cuarón Talk GRAVITY, the Long Takes, 3D, Pranks on Set, Preparing for the Role, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 23, 2013.

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• You have to have a thick enough skin to cope with the criticism. I'm very self-critical and I have a lot of friends that I trust who are film directors and writers and people in my profession.

  George Lucas

  Self, People, Criticism

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• I come from the theater, so for me rehearsal is vital and a way of life. There are many film directors who don't believe in it and some actors who prefer not to rehearse.

  Hugh Jackman

  Believe, Rehearsal, Way

  "Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne, and Samantha Barks Talk LES MISERABLES, Singing, and Bonding on Set". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. December 23, 2012.

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• I've always been passionately in love with movies, to such a degree that even as a young person of about nineteen or twenty I thought maybe I would try to become a film director. The reason I didn't do it was because I felt I didn't have the right personality. At that time in my life, I was mortally shy.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Personality, Trying, Twenties

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I never feel like a smug or a smart-alec film director, and there are plenty of those around.

  Martin McDonagh

  Smart, Directors, Film

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• I'm a film director. Gay is an adjective that I certainly am, but I don't know that it's my first one. I think if you're just a gay filmmaker, you get pigeonholed just like if you say I'm a black filmmaker, I'm a Spanish filmmaker, I'm a whatever.

  John Waters

  Gay, Thinking, Black

  "INTERVIEW : He Really Can't Help Himself : Shockingly eccentric writer-director John Waters offers yet another look at the gruesome with his new film, 'Serial Mom.' It stacks up nicely against his cult faves 'Pink Flamingos' and 'Mondo Trasho'". Interview with James Grant, articles.latimes.com. April 10, 1994.

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• In this land of unlimited opportunity, a place where, to paraphrase Woody Allen, any man or woman can realize greatness as a patient or as a doctor, we have only one commercial American filmmaker who consistently speaks with his own voice. That is Woody Allen, gag writer, musician, humorist, philosopher, playwright, stand-up comic, film star, film writer and film director.

  Vincent Canby

  Stars, Opportunity, Greatness

  The New York Times, July 17, 1983.

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• All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.

  Francois Truffaut

  Lying, Misunderstood, Directors

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• I am the best film director in the world.

  Lars von Trier

  Directors, World, Film

  Lars Von Trier Is "The Best Director In The World" by Zachary Wigon, www.tribecafilm.com. October 19, 2009 |.

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• Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.

  Yvonne Strahovski

  Directors, Actors, Want

  "Exclusive: Yvonne Strahovski Talks KILLER ELITE, the Final Season of CHUCK & Working With Streisand and Rogen in MY MOTHER’S CURSE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. September 19, 2011.

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• With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.

  Ken Adam

  Directors, Influence, Film

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• I think doing something creative is the most important thing to me, and I think it's probably just good for the soul for anyone, whatever it is. You don't have to be a film director - you can do gardening or something - but I think everyone needs to create something.

  Ricky Gervais

  Thinking, Creative, Soul

  Interview with Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. January 10, 2007.

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• You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

  Clint Eastwood

  Directors, Criminals, Film

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• This man (Bergman) is one of the few film directors-perhaps the only one in the world-to have said as much about human nature as Dostoevsky or Camus.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Men, Directors, World

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• The duty of a film director is to focus more on the soul of the spectator.

  Ken Loach

  Focus, Soul, Directors

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• Favourite directors change, like favorite authors. I had a passion for Gide and Stein and Faulkner. But now they're no use to me anymore. I've assimilated them - so, enough, they are a closed chapter. This also applies to film directors.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Passion, Directors, Use

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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• I didn't just see myself as a film director here [in Life And Nothing More], but also as an observer of people who had been condemned to death.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  People, Directors, Film

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

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• When I was growing up in the '50s, I had never heard of a "woman film director," so I did not consider it as an option. But I was fortunate that in the late-'60s and '70s, because of the feminist movement, women were stepping into all sorts of careers that had been closed to them in the past and film was one of them.

  Chris Hegedus

  Growing Up, Past, Careers

  "Sundance 2016 Women Directors: Meet Chris Hegedus – ‘Unlocking the Cage’". www.indiewire.com. January 23, 2016.

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