Director Quotes

Alfred Hitchcock

Orson Welles

Martin Scorsese

Ingmar Bergman

Steven Spielberg

Federico Fellini

Clint Eastwood

I'm not videotaping my life, but in a way I am trying to put certain things about myself on canvas.

Martin Scorsese

Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?

Alfred Hitchcock

Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.

Cheryl Crawford

Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.

You know what intimacy is? It's into-me-you-see... it's allowing someone to know who you are when you have all these defenses to keep them from knowing.

Listen. This will probably be the worst pain you have ever experienced in your life. Everything in your body will tell you to let go, but you have to hold on. You have to hold on, Maddy, no matter what. No matter how badly it hurts. You can never, never let go. Can you do that for me?

Am I not a man? And is not a man stupid? I'm a man, so I married. Wife, children, house, everything, the full catastrophe.

Michael Cacoyannis

Since science is fashionable today, it allows its fraternity to propose cloddish monstrosities as a solution to man's problems in many fields. Fashion rules and, anyway, who but the experts can even dare to speak up?

Frank Schaeffer

I have no publicist, no agent, no manager, no lawyer, no assistant, no helper, no stylist, no intern, no maid, no gardener, nothing. Oh, I have a dentist. I had a shrink but he died 9 years ago, right when I needed him most.

I would love to work with Salman. We have a great tuning so if we work together, it will be great fun. But till the time we don't get a good script, a script that excites both of us, we can't work together.

More souls become casualties of war than physical bodies. War is a soul-shattering experience for the innocent.

I look at my roommates who are so proud of me that it makes me proud.

Adriana Trigiani

Human needs to go through the abyss of pains and loss, because the more we suffer-the better.

The thing that I'm just scared to death of is that someday I'm going to wake up and bore somebody with a film.

Steven Spielberg

Southern trees bear strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black bodies swinging in the Southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

Lewis Allen (director)

Modern Imams must strive to ensure that no Muslim finds solace for terrorism in the Quran, they must cite the Quran as evidence that the murder of innocents is not permitted by good, believing Muslims, and must immediately refute all claims to the contrary.

Never 'eld with mournin' meself. I always say, life's black enough as it is without dressin' in it, too.

Philip Dunne (writer)

We now remain, at least on paper, one of the last few countries in the world, where if you don't die successfully, you'll go to jail for attempting.

I'm sort of a nervous person with the camera, so I will just shoot arbitrarily until I can focus and compose something, and then I make a shot. So generally, in [the] proof sheets, there are only three or four really concentrated efforts to take a photograph. It's not like a professional kind of person who sets it up so every photograph looks really cool.

Arthur: I think I'll take a bath.
Hobson: I'll alert the media.

Steve Gordon (director)

Voltaire was witty because he drank coffee. A conventional liquid stimulant.

Marcello Marchesi

People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer...

But what if it turns out, as it just possibly might, that William Shakespeare of Stratford was not the author of the plays ascribed to him? There is a theory, advanced by reputable scholars, seriously and, in my opinion, plausibly, that Shakespeare merely lent his name as a cover for the literary activities of another person, perhaps the Earl of Oxford. If, by some terrible chance, this theory should be proved, then straightway Stratford's tourist business would dwindle. It would become just one more, and honestly not one in the first ten, of England's picturesque small towns.

I'll make it. I won't die. I've got too much I have to do to let myself die.

I could be just a writer very easily. I am not a writer. I am a screenwriter, which is half a film-maker... But it is not an art form, because screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.