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I think audiences get too comfortable and familiar in today's movies. They believe everything they're hearing and seeing. I like to shake that up. — Christopher Nolan
A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again. — Jean Renoir
I Don't Try to Guess What a Million People Will Like. It's Hard Enough to Know What I Like. — John Huston
If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies. — Quentin Tarantino
The End of a Picture is Always an End of a Life. — Sam Peckinpah
A Movie That Costs Only $1.6 Million Doesn't Have to Be a Cultural Event to Turn a Profit. — Steven Soderbergh
You see so many movies... the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there's no sense of film… — Peter Bogdanovich
Our feeling is that the most important thing on a set is that actors have enough confidence to try different things. If there's stress or… — Peter Farrelly
Casting is 65 percent of directing. — John Frankenheimer
Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me… — Samuel Fuller
I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move! — Howard Hawks
I'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like fruit. I like… — Jim Jarmusch
I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with. — Richard Linklater
I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do. — Trevor Nunn
A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion. — Karel Reisz
It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one. — Alan Rudolph
People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for… — Ridley Scott
I like the days when all the filmmakers had was a film roll, a camera and a gangster. The Mack Sennett comedies were all like… — Michel Gondry
I learned early on that war forms its own culture. The rush of battle is a potent and often lethal addiction, for war is a… — Chris Hedges
You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida. It doesn't mean just purity… — Werner Herzog
In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don’t care about my cinema. In Europe they don’t know my poetry; in Europe, I… — Jonas Mekas
Filmmakers don't work for posterity. We create with celluloid and chemical pigments that don't last very long. They fade away. In 200 years there will… — Louis Malle
There was one moment, and it happened in school. I had a big final exam--we were supposed to write a 20-page report on this book… — Tim Burton
Being snarky and smug doesn't equate to providing insight, and there's more than one occasion when the filmmakers lose sight of this in their zeal… — James Berardinelli
In the numbing hands of pretentious filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, history does not repeat itself in any way whatsoever. — Rex Reed

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