David Lean Quotes
- Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique.
- Don't make jokes about food.
- Good films can be made only by a crew of Dedicated Maniacs.
- I think people remember pictures not dialogue. That's why I like pictures.
- My distinguishing talent is the ability to put people under the microscope, perhaps to go one or two layers farther down than some other directors.
- I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist.
- I'm first and foremost interested in the story, the characters.
- I rather like mysteries. But I do dislike muddles.