David Lean Quotes

• Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique.

  David Lean

  Jobs, Real, Technique

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• Good films can be made only by a crew of Dedicated Maniacs.

  David Lean

  Film, Crew, Made

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• When you're in the desert, you look into infinity.... It makes you feel terribly small, and also in a strange way, quite big.

  David Lean

  Desert, Looks, Way

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• I think people remember pictures not dialogue. That's why I like pictures.

  David Lean

  Thinking, People, Remember

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

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• My distinguishing talent is the ability to put people under the microscope, perhaps to go one or two layers farther down than some other directors.

  David Lean

  Two, People, Directors

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• I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist.

  David Lean

  Artist, Thinking, Dare

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• I'm first and foremost interested in the story, the characters.

  David Lean

  Character, Directors, Stories

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• I rather like mysteries. But I do dislike muddles.

  David Lean

  Mystery, Muddle, Dislike

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• Don't make jokes about food.

  David Lean

  Jokes

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