Cinema Quote by Douglas Sirk Download Open image “A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.” — Douglas Sirk ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cinema Directors Hollywood My time Time Wanted
Directing a film was something I always wanted to do, something that seemed an inevitability in my development as an actor. — Martin Donovan Copy Share Image
I couldn't be a director because I couldn't put up with the actors. I don't have the patience. Why, I'd probably kill the actors.… — Spencer Tracy Copy Share Image
I'd been working so hard making the film that I hadn't even emotionally processed the fact that I was a director. — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I did not necessarily feel that Hollywood was interested in what I wanted to do. They wanted me to do what they wanted to… — Patty Jenkins Copy Share Image
There's big studio films I didn't want to do. I didn't want to go through the hoops and ladders. I wouldn't have been able… — Garrett Hedlund Copy Share Image
When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director. — Kathryn Bigelow Copy Share Image
I'm not a Hollywood director. I'm an in spite of Hollywood director. — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
I couldn't get a job acting all the time and there were down periods where I could take photographs or paint. I got into… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
I wanted to make a movie about filmmaking and I didn't want to make a movie that took place in Hollywood. — Ti West Copy Share Image
I wanted to make films, but the films being made in the 1990s were not my kind. I couldn't break in, and even if… — Sriram Raghavan Copy Share Image
There was a choice of being a director who's more familiar with the technicality of doing a movie, like learning about the camera and… — Lexi Alexander Copy Share Image
There is a wonderful expression: seeing through a glass darkly. Everything, even life, is inevitably removed from you. You can't reach, or touch, the… — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not… — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
Ross Hunter was my assistant on Take Me to Town, He was a young man, an actor before that, and learned a lot on… — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power. — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is. — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately… — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political. — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every… — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy. — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands. — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart. — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people. — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong.… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play.… — Laura Carmichael Copy Share Image
I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
