Film Directors Quotes - Page 2

• The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Art, Giving, Trying

  "Godard". Book by Richard Roud, 1970.

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• You make films to give people something, to transport them somewhere else, and it doesn't matter if you transport them to a world of intuition or a world of intellect...The realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, presentiments, intuition, dreams, all this is the inner life of a human being, and all this is the hardest thing to film... I've been trying to get there from the beginning. I'm somebody who doesn't know, somebody who's searching.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Movie, Dream, Somewhere Else

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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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• 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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• 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 director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.

  Jean Renoir

  Children, Directors, Actors

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• No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Art, Twilight, Film Directing

  "The Magic Lantern: An Autobiography". Book by Ingmar Bergman, translated by Joan Tate, 1988.

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• And Later I Thought, I Can't Think How Anyone Can Become a Director Without Learning the Craft of Cinematography.

  Gus Van Sant

  Movie, Inspiring, Thinking

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• A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

  Frank Capra

  Positive Thinking, Creativity, Creative

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

  Alan Cumming

  Directors, Film

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• All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Funny, Girl, Humor

  My Autobiography ch. 10 (1964)

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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 realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, presentiments, intuition, dreams, all this is the inner life of a human being, and all this is the hardest thing to film.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Dream, Intuition, Superstitions

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• The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.

  Phil Ramone

  Directors, Records, World

  "Grammy-winning producer Phil Ramone dies at 79", www.foxnews.com. March 30, 2013.

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• I've never wanted to be a fireman, in my life. I've never really wanted to grow up and be anything other than a film director.

  David Gordon Green

  Growing Up, Directors, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.

  Trevor Nunn

  Ghouls, Decision, Directors

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• Because the writer must be a participant in the scene, while he's writing it — or at least taping it, or even sketching it. Or all three. Probably the closest analogy to the ideal would be a film director/producer who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least a main character.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Writing, Character, Cameras

  "The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time".

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• All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.

  David Hockney

  Directors, Looks, Want

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• I didn't have the problem of finding myself at 45 on the wrong course - I always wanted to be a film director.

  Elia Kazan

  Directors, Problem, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Being a film director involves, above all, a lot of hard work and resolve and determination. The glamour doesn't come until the premiere and the thing is all long done.

  D. W. Griffith

  Determination, Hard Work, Long

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• To be a film director is not a democracy, it's really a tyranny. You're the head of the project, for better rather than worse. I write the film and I direct the film, I decide who's going to be in it, I decide on the editing, I put in the music from my own record collection.

  Woody Allen

  Writing, Editing, Democracy

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

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• As a film director I like to have the actors create their own close-ups. It's an older style of filmmaking.

  Stanley Tucci

  Style, Directors, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.

  Park Chan-wook

  Couple, Successful, Film Critics

  Interview With Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. August 6, 2009.

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• A strong film director does leave you to your devices. A strong director allows you to be free and you trust that he's there and he will tell you if you've gone too far. A strong director allows you to be much more experimental and take greater chances than a director who isn't secure within himself.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Strong, Directors, Doe

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a serial kisser refuses to leave me.

  Emraan Hashmi

  Careers, Directors, Labels

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