Film Directors Quotes
24 Film Directors quotes by 22 unique authors
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I am the best film director in the world.
— Lars von Trier
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The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge…
— Sergei Eisenstein
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The duty of a film director is to focus more on the soul of the spectator.
— Ken Loach
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The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing, because…
— Robert Olen Butler
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In this land of unlimited opportunity, a place where, to paraphrase Woody Allen, any man or woman can realize greatness as a patient or as…
— Vincent Canby
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A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know…
— Jean Renoir
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You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.
— Clint Eastwood
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All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own…
— Francois Truffaut
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The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.
— Trevor Nunn
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The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.
— Phil Ramone
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Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.
— Yvonne Strahovski
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A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them. It looks like…
— Danny Boyle
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It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.
— Alan Cumming
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With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.
— Ken Adam
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I never want to make a film. I don't wake up in the morning going, 'Ooh, I'd really love to be on set making a…
— Stephen Daldry
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Being a film director involves, above all, a lot of hard work and resolve and determination. The glamour doesn't come until the premiere and the…
— D W Griffith
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I didn't have the problem of finding myself at 45 on the wrong course - I always wanted to be a film director.
— Elia Kazan
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I think doing something creative is the most important thing to me, and I think it's probably just good for the soul for anyone, whatever…
— Ricky Gervais
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I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
— Park Chan-wook
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I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic…
— Park Chan-wook
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All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.
— David Hockney
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A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.
— Elia Kazan
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The writer must be a participant in the scene... like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work, and somehow…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays.
— Thomas Harrison
Who Wrote These Film Directors Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 24 Film Directors Quotes as follows: