Directing Film Quotes

• Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Film Directing, Common, Problem

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

  Orson Welles

  Movie, Eye, Film Directing

  1958 'Un ruban de reves' in L'Express, 5 Jun. Reprinted in English in International Film Annual, no.2.

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• The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Funny, Movie, Humor

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

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• Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

  Martin Scorsese

  Movie, Gambling, Film Directing

  FaceBook post by Martin Scorsese from Jul 08, 2013

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• In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Film Directing, Directors, Documentary Films

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

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• A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Film Directing, Independent Filmmaking, Directors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Drama, Writing, Life Is Short

  Francois Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock, Helen G. Scott (1985). “Hitchcock”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Movie, Film Directing, Independent Filmmaking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Film Directing, Directors, Filmmaking

  Quoted in Halliwell's Filmgoer's and Video Viewer's Companion (1999).

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• A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.

  Jean Renoir

  Movie, Inspiring, Film Directing

  Quoted in Leslie Halliwell, Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion (1993)

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• Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Dream, Art, Dark

  "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye". "Sight & Sound" Magazine, June 1991.

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• People have forgotten how to tell a story.

  Steven Spielberg

  Film Directing, People, Directors

  "One! the Book about Everything and Nothing!: Stories from One Male to All of You". Book by Chimie (p. 85), November 23, 2011.

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• A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.

  Michael Winner

  Funny, Movie, Inspiring

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

  Billy Wilder

  Film Directing, Sycophants, Directors

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• Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.

  Billy Wilder

  Inspirational, Motivational, Movie

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

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• You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.

  Steven Spielberg

  Dream, Years, Collective Unconscious

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  The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Successful, Film Directing, Directors

  Quoted in Francois Truffaut Hitchcock (1968).

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• Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Eye, Film Directing, People

  Francois Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock, Helen G. Scott (1985). “Hitchcock”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

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• A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Movie, Art, Gambling

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

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• I was always looking for a career that could combine my creative interests with my technical side, and it ends up directing films is the perfect combination.

  Joseph Kosinski

  Careers, Perfect, Creative

  Source: collider.com

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• It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn't.

  Guy Ritchie

  Fun, Writing, Keyboards

  "Revolver - Guy Ritchie interview" compiled by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I really, really love directing films.

  John Frankenheimer

  Film

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• I'm not retired, I will continue directing films and doing fight choreography. I won't stop.

  Yuen Woo-ping

  Fighting, Film, Choreography

  Source: collider.com

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• There is an established tradition of actors directing films that have a particular, personal meaning for them - Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, Kevin Costner, and most recently George Clooney to name a few. Remarkably, their films share an unusually high percentage of being very good.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Names, Actors, Kevin

  "The Best Movie of the Year" by Steven Van Zandt, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 16, 2012.

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• I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room.

  Bruce Beresford

  Ideas, Long, Theatre

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