Movie Director Quotes - Page 2

• My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.

  Robert Bresson

  Real, Flower, Order

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.13, New York Review of Books

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• Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.

  Kirk Douglas

  Movie, Inspiring, Life Is Like

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

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• I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Children, Lasts, Next

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

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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 see so many movies... the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there's no sense of film grammar. There's no real sense of how to tell a story visually. It's just cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, you know, which is pretty easy.

  Peter Bogdanovich

  Movie, Inspiring, Real

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• The only safe thing is to take a chance.

  Elaine May

  Movie, Inspiring, Safe

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Movie, Inspiring, Sex

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness.

  Frank Capra

  Movie, Inspiring, Sin

  Recalled on his death in People, 16 Sep 1991.

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• A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.

  Spike Lee

  Credit, Stuff, Filmmaker

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• I want to get into the theater. I really wanted to be a theater director, but I turned out to be a movie director.

  Frank Oz

  Directors, Want, Theater

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• There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other.

  Edward Zwick

  Challenges, Stories, Fuel

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

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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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• Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters.

  Samuel Fuller

  Movie, Inspiring, Eye

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• There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other. As a filmmaker, I want to entertain people first and foremost. If out of that comes a greater awareness and understanding of a time or a circumstance, then the hope is that change can happen.

  Edward Zwick

  Movie, Inspiring, People

  "Blood Diamond: Interview with Director Ed Zwick". Interview with Emanuel Levy, emanuellevy.com. November 14, 2006.

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• I think its a very strange question that I have to defend myself. I don’t feel that. You are all my guests, it’s not the other way around, that’s how I feel.

  Lars von Trier

  Movie, Inspiring, Thinking

  "Von Trier: 'I am the best film director in the world'" by Eugene Hernandez, www.indiewire.com. May 18, 2009.

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• In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.

  Cameron Crowe

  Movie, Inspiring, Real

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• The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.

  Robert Doisneau

  Movie, Photography, Directors

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• In the theater the audience is generally riveted to a single angle of observation. The movie director, though, can rapidly shift from objective to subjective--and to any number of subjective points of view--and in so doing seem to pull the audience directly inside the frame of his picture, giving the spectator the sense of experiencing an action from the viewpoint of a participant. Identification of the viewer with the film character, then, can be much more intimate than the analogous situation in the theater.

  Ed Murray

  Character, Views, Numbers

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• Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied... That's why they can keep on working. I've been able to work for so long because I think next time, I'll make something good.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Movie, Thinking, Film Directing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've never seen a movie director who was happier to be directing a movie than Dave [Mamet]. His sets, everyone who's ever been involved with one of them will tell you of the funnest, funniest sets you can be on.

  Clark Gregg

  Directors, Dave, Involved

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I had a caricature view of the guy in the beret with the big megaphone­­, but a movie director and writer was beyond my role of understanding.

  J. C. Chandor

  Views, Guy, Understanding

  "Rocking the Boat". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 16, 2013.

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