Directors Quotes

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[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it. — William Wyler
Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director. — George Cukor
If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the execution for a… — John Patrick Shanley
The script, I always believe, is the foundation of everything. — Ewan McGregor
It's always the story that interests me. — Vincente Minnelli
I'm first and foremost interested in the story, the characters. — David Lean
Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you've gotta perform them and/or direct them, or… — Mel Brooks
I feel I do my best work when it's all there on the page, and I feel that the character is very vivid as I… — Guy Pearce
If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. — Olivia Colman
Making movies can be a creative exciting project for director and rest of staff. — Philip Kaufman
I think directors should at least take acting lessons to see what's going on. And I think all actors should direct to see what a… — Penny Marshall
Final cut is overrated. Only fools keep insisting on always having the final word. The wise swallow their pride in order to get to the… — Wim Wenders
There are a million ideas in a world of stories. Humans are storytelling animals. Everything's a story, everyone's got stories, we're perceiving stories, we're interested… — Richard Linklater
No comedy should be longer than 90 minutes. There's no such thing as a good long joke. — John Waters
I remember in The Conversation, they brought all these coats to me, and they said: Do you want him to look like a detective, Humphrey… — Francis Ford Coppola
I try to just make what I want to make or what I would want to see. I try not to think about the audience… — Sofia Coppola
Before I go off and direct a movie, I always look at four films. They tend to be The Seven Samurai, Lawrence Of Arabia, It's… — Steven Spielberg
Music is, for me, a great tool of a filmmaker, the same way cinematography, the acting, editing, post-production, the costumes are. You know, to help… — Spike Lee
I always scout locations first. The apartments, the railway tracks, the café, the canal - I figure out the geography of the film. — Claire Denis
I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind… — Takeshi Kitano
Don't try and change things for other people. Don't try and be persuaded by producers and people to change your vision. If you stick to… — Lynne Ramsay
Always get to the set or the location early, so that you can be all alone and draw your inspiration for the blocking and the… — Martin Scorsese
A film causes me so many worries and such a lot of reactions that I have to love it in order to get over it… — Ingmar Bergman
When a sound can replace an image, cut the image or neutralize it. The ear goes more towards the within, the eye towards the outer. — Robert Bresson
No 'mise en scène' has the right to be repeated, just as no two personalities are ever the same. As soon as a 'mise en… — Andrei Tarkovsky

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