Budget Quote by Brad Bird

It's sad - it's sad for us old enough to remember when directors ruled, and films were substantially better than they are today. But…

— Mark Rydell

The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful. And that was the real disappointment of the time. You'd see great writer-directors in…

— Parker Posey

The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.

— D. B. Sweeney

All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood with not…

— Stellan Skarsgard

I've been lucky enough to work with some great directors, and I don't want to throw that away by doing one big horrible big…

— Martin Compston

The biggest thing I learned is directors don't make a lot of money on a movie.

— Shane Dawson

When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.

— Jacques Rivette

Most filmmakers aren't very interested in history. They worry constantly that people will be bored.

— Geoffrey Ward

Popular films are so powerful and compelling that it's often easier to accept their versions of history than the much more complicated true stories.

— Melissa Harris-Perry

History tends to take the simplest possible view. As soon as you start to scratch the surface of any historical event, it starts to…

— Christopher McQuarrie

That was the magical thing about the Seventies: artists ruled. Because films were relatively low-budget, nobody cared. We could just go off and work.

— Sissy Spacek

There's been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn't have, but…

— Lili Taylor