Cinema Quote by Pedro Almodovar

If I had not been successful as a director, then I'm sure I would still be telling stories. I would have continued on 16mm…

— Pedro Almodovar

I'd done some acting and I didn't like being told what to do by the director, the structure of it.

— Joe Lycett

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

If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.

— Peter Greenaway

I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

— Mackenzie Astin

I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.

— Sally Kellerman

One of the things I've always tried to do in filmmaking is that you don't tell the story, you try to show it.

— Rick Heinrichs

I would put my pictures up against anybody's in this world. Certainly in my own day I bow to no one. I don't think…

— John Cassavetes

I had become a film director because I thought I could express something in an artful way.

— Paul Verhoeven

The thing is, as a film director, you're essentially alone: You have to tell a story primarily through pictures, and only you know the…

— Mike Nichols

So, when directors come up to me and ask if they should just narrate my role, I would say no and insist on knowing…

— Kalyani Priyadarshan

I never thought of becoming a director. When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me…

— Alain Resnais