The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture. — Charlie Rose Copy Share Image
Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to… — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as "an auteurist filmmaker." Every film directors is an auteur. We only make films that we do because… — Lee Yoon-ki Copy Share Image
I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires. — Park Chan-wook Copy Share Image
The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
As a kid, I wanted to be an astronaut. And my own passion was that I wanted to be a film director.… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
A good [film] director is talented, imaginative, and does his homework. — Vilmos Zsigmond Copy Share Image
A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them.… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
I think doing something creative is the most important thing to me, and I think it's probably just good for the soul… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly. — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
In this land of unlimited opportunity, a place where, to paraphrase Woody Allen, any man or woman can realize greatness as a… — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them. — Ken Adam Copy Share Image
I guess you could say I'm like a film director but my movies have only one frame. — Jeff Wall Copy Share Image
Whenever I've been asked to be in a film, directors only want me to play myself... I'm fascinated by the thought of… — Tom Jones Copy Share Image
I've always been passionately in love with movies, to such a degree that even as a young person of about nineteen or… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
You have to have a thick enough skin to cope with the criticism. I'm very self-critical and I have a lot of… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast. — Yvonne Strahovski Copy Share Image
The duty of a film director is to focus more on the soul of the spectator. — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
I always thought it would be very funny if I was a blind film director. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
To be a film director is not a democracy, it's really a tyranny. You're the head of the project, for better rather… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
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