Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alfred Hitchcock

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

Billy Crystal

I was a film-directing major at NYU. I'm still not sure why I became a directing major, when I was really an actor and a comedian, but there was something that drew me to doing that.

Akira Kurosawa

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

Billy Wilder

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

Jean Renoir

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

Mathieu Amalric

I directed three films and each time [I act] I hope it's the last time so I have time to do my film [directing].

Stephen Frears

I teach film directing, inasmuch as you can. Its not really possible to teach film direction, but I sit there as a sort of testimony of experience and know-how, I suppose.

Stanley Kubrick

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

Stanley Kubrick

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

B. J. Novak

I'm a believer in trusting the director.

Antoine Fuqua

I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.

Paul Clarke

The 48-hour stoppage is aimed at CIS staff and CIS directors but unfortunately there will be an effect on some customers,

Julianne Moore

I think people are always really surprised when they realise I'm not a very serious person and that I'm not tremendously serious about acting. I don't like to rehearse; I hate improv. Directors that don't like to talk, they're my favourite ones.

Patricia Clarkson

I think I am monumentally lucky but I do have the good fortune to have these great young directors offering me parts in their scripts.

Colin Trevorrow

'Jurassic Park' is like 'Star Wars.' Different directors can give a different taste to each movie.

Lesley Manville

I'd love it if doors open for me in America. There are directors I'd love to work with there. I'll always do theater, but I've got to pay the mortgage.

Grant Heslov

You work with great directors and terrible directors, and so you learn; you take what you think will work for you.

Stephen Chbosky

'Rent' was a special project for me. It was my first notable screenplay job. I worked with two wonderful directors on it, starting with Spike Lee in the summer of 2001. I wrote a draft for Spike and he was really good to me.

Jeff Kinney

I think the most satisfying part about filmmaking is seeing a production in full bloom. When I write, I write in isolation.

Ben Lewin

I think people think filmmaking is fun, but I've never thought that. For me it's always been a lot of work and pain and stress.

Christopher Nolan

The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.

David Ayer

You never know what you have until you put it in front of an audience. That's the truth. That's the truth of filmmaking and that's why you make movies, for an audience to, hopefully, enjoy it.

Daryl Hannah

Filmmaking is such a collaborative medium

Andrzej Wajda

However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared.

Michelle Rodriguez

When you make a film, you have to follow filmmaking rules. Like, a soundtrack... can get in the way of the serenity of the game.

David Ayer

'Sabotage' was an opportunity. That was journeyman work, but the irony is I learned more off that movie on what filmmaking is and isn't than everything else combined. A lot of lessons, and it will impact me for the rest of my career.

Frank Capra

There are no rules in filmmaking